…with the first new Meijer in Grand Rapids city limits in over a decade.
The Grand Rapids Press reports Friday that the store is scheduled to be replaced. Grand Rapids-based Meijer plans to keep the supercenter open while it builds a new store next to the existing site, with the new store opening in 2010.
The building began as a 17,000-square-foot grocery store in 1958. It became the retail chain’s first supercenter in 1962, adding 75,000 square feet to house non-grocery items.
That’ll be a piece of history being torn down.
home from Kalamazoo and rubbed it in my face that she was stopping at a Circle K. This may sound silly because it is just a gas station, but that, so far, is the thing I miss the most about Peoria. It’s not like their gas is any cheaper or their hot dogs haven’t been in the little roller thing longer. The thing I miss are the Polar Pops! 32 oz. of sugary goodness for $.75. Oh sure, you can argue, who needs that much Pepsi…especially when I would stop at the Circle K twice a day or more, but I’m craving it right now. The cheap styrofoam cups, the crushed ice, and being able to pull three quarters out of my pocket and get a pop. I almost got out of my truck and did a victory dance when I accidently found a Circle K in Ann Arbor near the Big House. That was an exciting day. We used to have Polar Pop runs at my last place of employment. It’s actually pretty sad. My boss was on a first name basis and almost to the point of friends with the clerk at the Circle K in East Peoria, IL he went in there so much. I got to know the overnight guy when I would go to work at 3 am and needed that caffeine fix. I don’t know how something so simple can seem so important, but I really, really, really want a Polar Pop. Circle K….come to Lansing!
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