Northern Kentucky’s newest Kroger storefront should open to customers by this coming spring on a long-vacant lot along Dixie Highway in Edgewood.
“March of 2025 is (Kroger’s) estimate now,” said City Administrator Brian Dehner in an update during the city council’s meeting Monday evening. “That is based on the fact that if we have a good winter, a mild winter, and they can continue to get in and work and get everything done.”
Commuters along Dixie Highway through Edgewood will have noticed construction in recent months at the former K-Mart site, located just south of Dixie Heights High School at 3071 Dixie Highway.
City and Kroger officials broke ground on the project in April, and, along with constructing the new building, crews also have updated traffic and drainage infrastructure serving the site.
“Sooner than we thought; that’s great,” said Mayor John Link in response to Dehner’s update.
The grocery chain demolished the former K-Mart building to construct a mid-sized storefront similar in footprint to its Fort Mitchell store, with an attached pharmacy and liquor outlet, a curbside pick-up zone, and a fuel center. While the former Pizza Hut building on the site was demolished to make way for the fuel center, the Dollar Tree next store will remain, realtors told LINK nky when they first announced the project last year.
Currently, Edgewood residents are served by an older Kroger storefront located nearby on Dixie Highway.
“It’s going to be a huge improvement to the property,” said City Councilman Jeff Schriever in a 2023 video announcing the project. “It’s been a long time coming. Edgewood has been working behind the scenes, just to make sure that it kept moving along.”
In a news release at the time of the April 26 groundbreaking, Kroger officials touted the 101,000-square-foot facility as a $25 million investment in the city of Edgewood. Once open, the store will employ as many as 250 associates, the release stated.
Previous reporting by Kenton Hornbeck contributed to this story.