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Trader Joe’s confirms new grocery store along U.S. Route 34 in Oswego · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Trader Joe's confirms new grocery store along US Route thirty
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  Speaker 1: four inches Oswego. Written by Eric Schlkoff a flip. This
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  Speaker 1: article is being read by an automated voice brought to
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  Speaker 1: you by Everlett. Trader Joe's has confirmed on its website
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  Speaker 1: that it is building a new store at US Route
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  Speaker 1: thirty four and Kendall Point Drive in Oswego, next to
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  Speaker 1: Delta Sonic Coming soon, states the website. Although Trader Joe's
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  Speaker 1: previously had confirmed that it plans to open a store
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  Speaker 1: in Oswego, it had not said where the store will
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  Speaker 1: be located. The address for the new store is nineteen
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  Speaker 1: thirty US Route thirty four. Batavia, Glen Ellen, Naperville, Downers Grove,
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  Speaker 1: and Oak Park are some of the other communities where
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  Speaker 1: Trader Joe's stores are located. During his State of the
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  Speaker 1: Village address on March fourth, Oswego Village President Ryan Kaufman
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  Speaker 1: talked about the Trader Joe's plans as just another example
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  Speaker 1: of the strength of the village. When Trader Joe's chooses
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  Speaker 1: your community, it says that this is a place with energy,
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  Speaker 1: stability and a customer base that executives believe in, Kaufman said.
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  Speaker 1: Last year, village trustees unanimously approved plans for a twelve thousand,
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  Speaker 1: five hundred square foot grocery store at the site. Benderson
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  Speaker 1: Development Company LLLC is building the store, along with another
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  Speaker 1: building that will contain a restaurant slash retail, on five
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  Speaker 1: acres at the southwest corner of US Route thirty four
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  Speaker 1: and Kendall Point Drive. Benderson Development Company often works with
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  Speaker 1: Trader Joe's. The property is zoned for business. The grocery
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  Speaker 1: store is being built at the northeast corner of the site.
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  Speaker 1: On the western side of the property, the developer plans
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  Speaker 1: to build a ten thousand square foot building that may
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  Speaker 1: be used as a sixty six sixty seven square foot
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  Speaker 1: restaurant and a thirty three to thirty three square foot bank.
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  Speaker 1: Oswego Assistant Development Services Director Rachel Riemann Schneider said in
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  Speaker 1: a memo to village trustees the proposed uses for a
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  Speaker 1: grocery store, general retail, financial institution, and restaurant are permitted
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  Speaker 1: uses in the Bus one district. She said