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Aldi prepares store amid Pittsburgh Mills mall's Village shops
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Building design plan for an Aldi grocery store to be located in the Villlage at Pittsburgh Mills in Frazer.
German grocery giant Aldi has started preparing a store space in the Pittsburgh Mills shopping complex in Frazer.
Aldi has paid about $11,300 for a building permit and is remodeling the space formerly occupied by OfficeMax, according to Lori Ziencik, township manager and a township supervisor.
The move apparently finalizes the building plans Aldi officials had filed with the township this spring.
The store is on Village Center Drive and is part of the mall's Village shops.
The Village is a grouping of stores on the Pittsburgh Mills property off Route 28 in Frazer that are outside the Galleria at Pittsburgh Mills, the main mall site. It includes retailers such as Lowes, Best Buy and Ross Dress for Less.
An Aldi representative did not respond to a request for comment Friday.
It will be the first store at the Pittsburgh Mills complex focused on groceries. The nearby Sam's Club and Walmart sell groceries, too, but as part of their superstore concept that includes a broad line of merchandise from clothing to gardening and automotive products.
Based on the building permit application, Ziencik said the cost of the renovation will be $720,000 and the store will occupy 18,900 square feet.
Aldi, based in Essen, Germany, has a reputation as a low-cost, no-frills grocer where shoppers pay for shopping bags and rent shopping carts for 25 cents.
Aldi operates more than 1,600 stores in 35 states. It operates about 20 stores in the Pittsburgh area, including one on Leechburg Road in Lower Burrell, one on Route 286 along the Murrysville-Plum line, one near Etna and two in Penn Hills.
In June, the company announced it would spend $3.4 billion to expand to 2,500 stores nationwide by the end of 2022. It follows on Aldi's $1.6 billion program to remodel 1,300 stores by 2020.
Aldi says it will add 25,000 jobs in stores, warehouses and offices.
According to Aldi, the growth would make it the third-largest grocery store by count in the U.S., serving 100 million customers per month.
Tom Yerace is a freelance writer.
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