A German grocery-store chain which operates more than 10,000 stores in 27 countries and is now rapidly expanding in the United States wants to open stores in Broadview Heights and throughout Ohio.
Lidl, which opened its first U.S. stores this summer in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, would build a 36,000-square-foot store on the west side of Broadview Road, just south of Sprague Road. The estimated cost is $6.8 million.
“I think the city of Broadview Heights is going to love this project,” Councilman Glenn Goodwin said Monday night. City Council referred the plan to the city’s Board of Zoning Appeals.
Michael Kennedy, the senior development manager with Lidl US LLC, told cleveland.com that the Broadview Heights Lidl would be among the first in Ohio. The company has also submitted applications in Howland, a township near Warren, and Austintown, south of Columbus. More applications in Ohio are planned.
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“We would like to have grand openings of several stores at once,” Kennedy said. “It depends on how the approval process goes.”
Lidl, in its application to the city, said it would like to start building the Broadview Heights store in spring 2019 and open in 2020. In May, the company said it was considering adding stores in Ohio but had made no decisions at that time.
Date: Aug 29, 2017