Lowes Foods, a Carolinas-based grocer, said it would add a third store in the Greenville market, with the new location at Pelham and Boiling Springs roads.
The store at 2702 Pelham Road will open in spring 2018, company officials said.
Lowes Foods opened its first Greenville market store in Greer on Sept. 23 and is building a second store in Simpsonville in the Village Market-East shopping center on the northwest corner of Woodruff Road and Sunnydale Drive in the Five Forks area. The Simpsonville store is anticipated to open in spring 2017.
“The Greenville market is an important part of our company’s overall strategy to remodel existing stores and build new ones,” Lowes Foods President Tim Lowe said. “We have been thrilled with the incredible welcome we have experienced since the opening of our Greer store just a month ago and are very excited to extend Lowes Foods’ unique grocery shopping experience to our neighbors in the Pelham Road area.”
In addition to the Greenville market, Lowes has two stores under construction in Lexington just outside of Columbia.
The new Pelham Road store will feature a wide assortment of organics, premium aged beef, chef-inspired prepared foods, bulk foods and Lowes Foods-To-Go online shopping service.
Plans on file at County Square show a strip retail center at the site anchored by a 50,000-square-foot grocery with smaller shops on either side.
The development site is located along Pelham Road near its intersection with Boiling Springs Road, across Pelham from a new QuikTrip convenience store.
Greenville County Council voted unanimously to rezone about 9 acres for the development in September over the objections of county planners, records on file at County Square show.
“The proposed intensity for this site is out of character with the surrounding land uses and traffic would lack adequate access,” county planners wrote.
Some county residents also objected to the rezoning from a residential category to Flexible Review District.
Debbie Fischer, a resident of the nearby Green Creek Townhomes, said in an email to county officials that Pelham Road “simply cannot handle all this extra traffic, and we are very concerned that we are turning into another disaster like Woodruff Road.
-Rudolph Bell contributed.
