Good morning @LibertyTwpOH! We want to let you know that around 9 am today, a new traffic signal will go into "Stop and Go" operation at Kyles Station Rd & Partners Pl. The signal activation is one day before the grand opening of the new Kroger Marketplace on Kyles Station Rd. 🚦
— BC Engineer's Office (@bceonews) October 28, 2020
Liberty Twp. Economic Development Director Caroline McKinney said earlier this fall that the opening is good news for the community.
“The new Liberty Kroger on Route 4 has been in the pipeline for awhile so the impending opening is fantastic news for many within our community,” McKinney said. “Throughout the pandemic, the Kroger team and their contractors worked tirelessly to bring this new store online and we’re incredibly thankful.”
The new store will include a fuel center and serve as the anchor for the 56-acre Kyles Station development, located on Ohio 4 at Kyles Station Road. When the new location opens, it will replace a 57,000-square-foot storefront that Kroger started leasing at 5420 Liberty-Fairfield Road in 1998.
The project has had a rocky road up until now. After the township’s zoning board approved some variances for it in 2015, neighbors appealed to common pleas court, but Butler County Judge Greg Stephens sided with Kroger.
Site work started in 2017, but the project remained on the company’s backburner as others were given the green light.
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