The Franklin Planning Commission recently approved the proposal to combine six existing lots and create a two-lot subdivision. Legislation was introduced and given a first reading at the May 19 City Council meeting and final council approval is slated for its June 2 meeting.
Jaclyn Dees, a communications specialist for the Goodlettsville, Tenn.-based retailer, said once the due diligence on the property is completed, construction can begin. She said depending on how construction goes, the store could be ready for a grand opening this September.
“This is a relocation of a store,” she said. “Dollar General plans to remodel or relocate 525 stores.”
Dees also said Dollar General will be leasing the new Franklin building from the property owner.
She said the company usually employs between six and 10 people at its stores.
“The employees at the current location will be transferred to the new building,” she said.
On top of the remodelling/relocating of stores, Dees said Dollar General plans to open 700 new stores in 2014.
“We’re quite busy,” she said. “With 700 new stores plus the 525 stores being remodelled, we’re opening about three stores a day.”
According to its website, Dollar General operates more than 11,000 stores in 40 states and it had sales of $17.5 billion in 2013. About 70 percent of its stores serve communities of 20,000 or less, Dees said.
Dollar General is the nation’s largest small-box discount retailer and strives to make shopping simpler and for everyday needs of an assortment of some of the most popular brands and products at low everyday prices, according to its website. The company is also one of the largest retailers of top-quality brands made by manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble, Kimberly-Clark, Unilever, Kellogg’s, General Mills, Nabisco, Hanes, PepsiCo and Coca-Cola, the website said.
Dollar General operates another store in Franklin on East Second Street, four stores in Middletown, three stores in Hamilton, two stores in Fairfield, and a single store in Carlisle, Lebanon, Oxford, Mason, West Chester and Trenton.
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