In a press conference a week ago Friday Save-A-Lot owner Henry Nemenz announced new plans for Wellsville's only full service grocery store. At a Chamber-of-Commerce Business After Hours event last July, Nemenz revealed plans to build a completely new building to house the grocery store. It was to be located west of the adjacent, existing store behind the houses facing Wells Avenue. Once the new building was opened and in operation the old store was to be refurbished converting it into four individual speciality shops and a bar-resturant-banquet facility. See our post dated 7/17/09 for more details on the original plans.
Nemenz still plans on a new building in Wellsville. It's just changed location to east of the existing store. Pictured above is approximately four acres of vacant land along Wells Avenue. Visualize that strip of land someday being lit up with a brand new grocery store anchoring a proposed plaza with an adjacent combination coffee/bakery/deli/restaurant shop, a State Store, a possible health clinic and a pharmacy sitting along the railroad tracks. It will be an attractive, highly visible new store greeting folks just inside the eastern limits of the Village along Route 7. The new plaza has a potential of creating 75 to 100 jobs according to newspaper accounts. Nemenz was quoted as saying the new plaza will be somewhere between 30,000 and 35,000 square feet at an estimated cost of $2.5 - $3 million.
At the press conference last week Nemenz signed a Project Labor Agreement with the Western Reserve Building & Construction Trades Council. It is expected to put 100 to 150 union crafts people to work making it a reality once financing is completed. There's currently a 60 - 90 day target for ground breaking.
Last July Nemenz said the old building was "tired" and folks in the Wellsville area deserved better. In these economic times just hearing of plans in the works with the potential to created some new jobs is exciting.
Thanks Henry...
ole nib
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I might add that when we contacted Mr. Nemenz about donating towards the Alumni Reunion Activities Committee. He not only offered a very generous donation, but also the use of his parking lot for a band or any other activity we'd like to have there.
Sounds like a great plan, lets hope he can get the funding to go ahead with the project.
I hope someone from the Chamber reads this. Hootch is right, Mr. Nemenz is very generous. He is a Chamber Member, and without him, the auction they had would not have made near what it did. He donated many wonderful items, and spent over $1,000 himself. Yet, somehow, he has not received the business of the month. Can someone explain, please?
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