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Discount Drug Mart Opening Pushed Back

Store won't be open by Christmas after all

The new  will apparently not open this year.

The drugstore, which will anchor a , was supposed to be open by Christmas, but probably won't be finished till early 2012.

"They're looking at February now," said Brent Painter, the city's director of economic development.

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Painter said he did not know what was holding up the pace of construction.

Drug Mart is expanding the former Vigliucci's Bi-Rite at the corner of Prospect and Royalton roads for a 27,960-square-foot store. The company is adding 12,000 square feet to the front of the building, including a drive-through pharmacy.

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 and  have already moved to another spot in the plaza to make way for the Discount Drug Mart, and an outbuilding was razed for more parking.


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