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Construction begins on new grocery store in Oswego · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Construction begins on new grocery store in Oswego. Written by
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  Eric Shelkoff. This article is being read by an automated
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  voice brought to you by Everlett. Construction has started on
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  a new grocery store on US Route thirty four and
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  Kendall Point Drive in Oswego. Whether the store under construction
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  is a Trader Joe's grocery store still is unknown. Although
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  Trader Joe's has confirmed that it plans to open a
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  store in Oswego, it has not said where the store
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  will be located. Friends, I'm thrilled to announce that Trader
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  Joe's is coming to Oswego. Village President Ryan Kaufman said
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  in a social media post in November. They have not
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  announced the timeline our location yet, but they are happy
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  for us to confirm they are coming to Oswego. This
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  is a great day to celebrate. Last February, village trustees
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  unanimously approved plans for a twelve thousand, five hundred square
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  foot grocery store or at the site. Benderson Development Company
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  LLC is building a grocery store along with another building
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  that will contain a restaurant tretail on five acres at
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  the southwest corner of US Route thirty four and Kendall
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  Point Drive. Benderson Development Company often works with Trader Jones.
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  The average Trader Joe's store is between ten thousand and
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  fifteen thousand square feet in size. The property is zoned
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  for business. The grocery store will be built at the
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  northeast corner of the site. On the western side of
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  the property, the developer plans to build a ten thousand
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  square foot building that may be used as a six thousand,
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  six hundred and sixty seven square foot restaurant and a
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  three thousand, three hundred and thirty three square foot bank aswego.
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  Assistant Development Services Director Rachel Riemenschneider had set in a
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  memo to village trustee the proposed uses for a grocery store,
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  general retail, financial institution, and restaurant are permitted uses in
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  the B one district. She said