A pretty successful location?
Posted: 01 Jul 2018 17:18
The first Kroger store on this site (2100-2124 Beechmont Avenue in Cincinnati) opened in 1922. Three or four buildings later, there has been one here ever since:
https://t.co/G0eBu3syH5
The first, obviously, was a small storefront that no doubt expanded and was likely replaced at some point. A superstore opened at the south end of the site in the mid to late 1970s. That was replaced by the current building in probably the late 1990s.
Obviously, it's been a pretty good site for Kroger. This tops my two other "longest tenure by one chain in the same location" winners, which were two Safeway stores, one in Washington DC (MacArthur Blvd, same building since the 1940s, expanded) and the other in San Francisco (same location since the early 1940s but a new building in 1972). I'm sure there are a few other contenders scattered about as well, but it would be hard to top 95 years in the same block.
https://t.co/G0eBu3syH5
The first, obviously, was a small storefront that no doubt expanded and was likely replaced at some point. A superstore opened at the south end of the site in the mid to late 1970s. That was replaced by the current building in probably the late 1990s.
Obviously, it's been a pretty good site for Kroger. This tops my two other "longest tenure by one chain in the same location" winners, which were two Safeway stores, one in Washington DC (MacArthur Blvd, same building since the 1940s, expanded) and the other in San Francisco (same location since the early 1940s but a new building in 1972). I'm sure there are a few other contenders scattered about as well, but it would be hard to top 95 years in the same block.