Pet store, restaurant, salons join new Liberty Twp. development

A pet store, Mexican restaurant and two salons will be part of a new Liberty Twp. development anchored by a Kroger Marketplace.

Coming to Ohio 4 and Kyles Station Road in early 2018 will be a 134,000-square-foot Kroger Marketplace, which will replace a 57,000-square-foot storefront that Kroger started leasing at 5420 Liberty-Fairfield Road in 1998.

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Shoppes at Kyles Station I, a 13,800-square-foot strip center is due to break ground this spring and will be home to PetValu, El Rancho Nuevo restaurant, Great Clips, Aura Nail & Spa and a soon-to-be-named restaurant, according to Danielle Kuehnle, director of new development, sales and leasing for Oberer Realty Services, the project’s developer.

The project should break ground this spring concurrent with Kroger once the necessary permits are issued, with a targeted opening expected to occur in the first quarter of 2018, she said.

“We feel like it fills a hole in the market,” Kuehnle told this news outlet. “This is a very fast-growing area of Liberty Twp. with a lot of new housing … and we’ve just had a lot of interest and felt like it was the right place.”

The township has approved plans for the 134,000-square-foot grocery store and a gas kiosk, something not available at Kroger’s current Ohio 4 location.

Oberer Realty Services Ltd. announced Wednesday that Kroger and Kyles Station Developers Ltd., an Oberer affiliate company, had closed on the sale of 18 acres at the new 56-acre Kyles Station development.

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Those acres are being carved out of the 31.3 acres Kyles Station Developers purchased Jan. 26 for $2 million, according to Butler County Auditor’s Office records.

Plans are in the works for the 12,800-square-foot Shoppes II retail center, as well as nine acres on the west side of Kyles Station Road designated for office space, Kuehnle said.

“Given our long standing relationship with Kroger, we’re really excited about their commitment to the Kyles Station development and their role as a key anchor retailer,” said Chris Conley, president/partner of Oberer Realty Services. “We also look forward to ramping up the development to offer additional inline retail, restaurant, outlot and office opportunities.”

This closing marks the third Kroger deal completed by Oberer within the last year, the other two at Cornerstone of Centerville and Valle Greene North in Fairborn.

In addition to Kroger, the new Kyles Station development will also offer outlots from one to four acres on the east side of Kyles Station Road.

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