Wednesday, July 25, 2012
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Rockdale Citizen
The new Publix super market in the Village at Miller's Chapel shopping center on Ga. Highway 20 opened its doors for the first time Wednesday. The new store replaces a Publix on Ga. Highway 138 that closed Tuesday night. The new store anchors a shopping center that will include a Kauffman Tire store, a bank branch and retail shops. According to a company spokesman, the new Publix in Conyers is expected to be the only one to open in the metro Atlanta area this year. Long-time Rockdale County resident and Publix shopper Sarah Taylor visited the new store Wednesday morning and received a flower from a produce clerk who has been with Publix for nine years. Taylor and her friend Aqua Ovelle, not shown, both came to the new location for the grand opening. Staff Photo: Sue Ann Kuhn-Smith
The new Publix super market in the Village at Miller's Chapel shopping center on Ga. Highway 20 opened its doors for the first time Wednesday.
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Comments
Clark 9 months, 4 weeks ago
Add one more abandoned, crime-attracting building to the heap. Any guesses till how long the remaining stores in the shopping center will last before closing?
Elmo 9 months, 4 weeks ago
The powers of the "O's" will just about guarantee many other businesses will be following suit, and closing their doors, too.
ClaytonBigsby 9 months, 4 weeks ago
We ought to require a demolition bond before allowing construction of these places. Agreed, yet another used up eyesore on SR 20/138. Great, just great. Just wait until Walmart inevitably decides to move to new digs!
Conyers_Resident 9 months, 4 weeks ago
Folks, you are beginning to sound like a broken record :~)
Publix leases their space. They wanted to reduce their energy costs, plus move to a better location for their customers. What's wrong with that? For me, the new location is great. No need to get into the traffic on 138 at all. Backroads all the way.
ClaytonBigsby - I agree about Walmart. I'm surprised they haven't already abandoned their Conyers store. It is based on their older building design and has been remodeled a couple of times already. I wonder where they would put a new super store, or if at all in Rockdale?
conyersgirl 9 months, 3 weeks ago
a better location????? it is right across the dang street from the old location??? what????
negneal 9 months, 3 weeks ago
It is quicker for me to get in and out of there too but I will not shop there because of this move. This is just sprawl. Cut down a wooded lot and tear down an old house to build a store 100 yards away.
LoveIt 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Someone made a lot, a lot of money selling those woods and the "old house" was not so old. Don't blame Publix for moving in to the development that a builder built. This is our only sign of "economic development and new jobs" in the county, so you refuse to support Publix and go outside Rockdale to give your tax dollars to another county. Do you see how uninformed you sound? Please try learning first, before you open your mouth to criticize. Take the time to check out the counties of origin for all the cars in the Target lot right next to the new Publix. Lots of folks from other counties come here to shop thanks to quality selection, NICE SURROUNDINGS, feeling safe, and convenience as they go up and down I-20 to and from work each day. Then think about the implications for sales tax revenues coming in to Rockdale County for your roads, sheriff's dept, fire dept. and schools. Then go shop at your and our Publix instead of another county's and look for something else to fuss about.
negneal 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Did I say I would take my dollars out of county? I think you read something in my comment that wasn't there. I currently shop at the Publix on the corner of 212 and 138 that is approx 5 miles away from this new building.
Nice surroundings? A shuttered restaurant, now empty grocery store, and a title pawn across the street is not a "nice surrounding".
Publix could have spent the money to refurbish the now old location. So I will take my informed money some other place besides that Publix.
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