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| The new Jewel-Osco store in Palos Heights will open at 6 a.m. Thursday. |
Southland Savvy
Jewel-Osco will open a new and
improved supermarket at 6 a.m. Thursday at 12803 S. Harlem Ave. in Palos
Heights, only a few feet away from an aging existing store.
Jewel is holding an
invitation-only ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new store Wednesday evening
after the existing store closes for the last time at 6 p.m. The pharmacy will
close at 4 p.m.
“The old store is more than 45
years old,” said Karen May, external communications manager for Jewel. “It has
been there since 1967.”
“The new store will be more
than 50,000 square feet and feature a lot of the more modern amenities,” May
said. Those features include a cheese shop, soup, wings and olive bars, and self-checkout
lanes, as well as skylights.
The new store also will serve sushi,
gluten-free products, organic produce and ethnic foods.
The new store will feature an expanded bakery,
liquor department and a larger pharmacy with a consultation room, a TCF Bank
branch, and a Red Box movie rental kiosk.
“There also will be a pharmacy
kiosk in the parking lot so customers can drive up and get their prescriptions,”
May said.
Plans call for the old store to
be demolished starting in early July and turned into a parking lot.
“Once the old store is knocked down,”
May said. “Work on the pharmacy kiosk will begin. I expect it to be installed
in August.”
“There are 153 employees moving
over from the old store,” May said adding from 15-20 new associates will be
added.
While many Jewel stores have
been remodeled and expanded recently, this is only the second Jewel that is
being completely replaced by a new store in past two years, May said. The other
one opened in the fall of 2010 in Chicago’s Lakeview community.
The new store will be open
seven days a week from 6 a.m. to midnight. Pharmacy hours will be 8 a.m. to 10
p.m. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturdays and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
on Sundays.
Later this year, Wendy’s will
build a restaurant in an outlot on the property.
Tinley to Expand Rec Center
The Tinley Park-Park District
is expected this week to open bids on a major expansion of the Tony
Bettenhausen Recreation Center.
Bids are due by 10 a.m. Friday
for construction of a 30,000-square-foot addition to the center at 8125 W. 171st
St., which opened a decade ago. The park board expects to award the contracts
at its meeting on Wednesday, July 11.
The construction project has a
$4.5 million estimated cost with about $1 million coming from existing funds.
Construction is expected to begin this fall and be completed late next year.
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