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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowKroger Co. finally will begin work Tuesday on a new, 50,000-square-foot grocery store in Nora that met fierce opposition from the neighborhood’s community council.
The $12 million project will replace six vacant buildings at 82nd and Evergreen streets on property the company will lease from local developer Sid Eskenazi.
Cincinnati-based Kroger began discussions on the Nora project before talks started on its store at 71st Street and Binford Boulevard, which opens next week, company spokesman John Elliott said.
“We had an awful lot of pushback from the Nora Community Council in bringing this store in,” he said. “That meant this project has been much slower [progressing] than originally anticipated.”
Many residents in the area have voiced their support for the project, however, Elliott said.
Demolition of the six abandoned buildings will begin tomorrow after a 10 a.m. news conference Kroger is conducting to provide more details about the project.
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