For Immediate Release: September 9, 2010 Contact: Eddie Owens, APR, Director of Corporate Communications
(office: 806.788.4863; cell: 806.928.0462)
United Supermarkets to Develop Property
at 4th & Milwaukee Beginning with Convenience Store
LUBBOCK, TX – United Supermarkets will soon begin developing the property it owns on the southeast corner of 4th & Milwaukee here, beginning with a 3,100-square-foot United Express convenience store and fuel station.
The company expects to break ground on the project within the next four to six weeks, according to Tony Crumpton, executive vice president of facilities, fuel and supply for United Supermarkets, LLC.
“We purchased the property in 2008 as a site for potential future development, and we are at a stage where we are ready to begin the development process,” Crumpton said. “We hope to break ground on our first full-fledged United Express convenience location by late October.”
Anticipated completion date is March 2011, he added.
The convenience store is the first development phase for the 12.1-acre tract. The company hopes to eventually open Lubbock’s 10th United location on the property, with the remaining space available for additional retail development.
“We believe there will be an additional 36,000 square-feet of space available for retail development,” Crumpton explained.
The convenience store generally will be a new concept for United, developed from lessons learned at its Taste of Market Street stores.
“We’ll try and take what we’ve learned from our Taste of Market Street locations and extend that to more of a convenience store format for our guests in northwest Lubbock. We’ll have limited fresh food offerings, along with the traditional items that guests would expect from a convenience store,” he said.
United operates three Taste of Market Street locations – including 98th and Quaker in Lubbock. Others are at the company’s Market Street stores in Frisco and Coppell.
Crumpton credited the Lubbock community for making the new development possible.
“Lubbock has been our home for more than half a century now, and the support of our thousands of loyal guests has made it possible for us to continue to grow,” he said.
“Our company has recognized the area around 4th and Milwaukee is a growing part of Lubbock, and we look forward to the opportunity to be able to serve even more guests from our new location.”
About United Supermarkets Now in its 94th year of operation, United Supermarkets, LLC, is a Texas-based, family-owned grocery chain with stores in 30 markets across north and west Texas. A self-distributing company with its headquarters and distribution center in Lubbock, United currently operates 50 stores under three distinct formats: United Supermarkets, Market Street and Amigos United.