Save-A-Lot 881: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
Reschultzed (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{coord|42.73201|-87.79928|display=title}} {{Automated article}} {{Infobox Save-A-Lot | name = Save-A-Lot #881 | image = | storenumber = 881 | location = | address = 1500...") |
Reschultzed (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
||
Line 6:
| storenumber = 881
| location =
| address = [[State Street Center (Racine, Wisconsin)|State Street Center]]<br/>[[1500 State Street (Racine, Wisconsin)|1500 State Street]]
| city_state = [[Racine, Wisconsin]]
| opened = December 11, 2003
| closed =
| store_type =
Line 17:
| next =
}}
'''Save-A-Lot #881''' is a [[Save-A-Lot]] grocery store located in the [[State Street Center (Racine, Wisconsin)|State Street Center]] shopping center, at [[1500 State Street (Racine, Wisconsin)|1500 State Street]] in [[Racine, Wisconsin|Racine]], [[Wisconsin]].<ref>[https://savealot.com/grocery-stores/ Directory], savealot.com</ref>
==History==
[[Supervalu]] proposed building a [[Save-a-Lot]] grocery store at the corner of State Street and North Memorial Drive in December 2000, to replace a commercial city block that was considered blighted.<ref>Buttweiler, Joe. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50371634/the-journal-times/ "Deep-discount grocery eyes State Street site"], [[Racine Journal Times]], December 8, 2000, front page.</ref> It would be the first grocery store in the inner city of Racine after [[1000 Marquette Street (Racine, Wisconsin)|Marquette Food & Liquor]] a few blocks away was destroyed by fire in July 1999.<ref name=persistence/>
Local union leaders protested Supervalu's decision to open a non-unionized store in Racine after closing a unionized [[Randall's County Market]] location at [[Westgate Mall Shopping Center (Racine, Wisconsin)|Westgate Mall Shopping Center]], and asked the company to agree that it would not interfere with any future effort to organize a union at the new store.<ref>Buttweiler, Joe, and Michael Burke. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50372217/the-journal-times/ "Union leaders want promise from store owners"], [[Racine Journal Times]], May 23, 2001, page 1C.</ref> When Supervalu refused to sign the agreement, the Racine City Council stated that it would consider proposals from other companies.<ref>Buttweiler, Joe. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50372377/the-journal-times/ "Additional grocery proposals are sought"], [[Racine Journal Times]], July 10, 2001, page 1C.</ref>
By October 2001, no other proposals had been made for a grocery store at the site, and the city agreed to begin negotiating a development contract with [[Big Bend Development (Brookfield, Wisconsin)|Big Bend Development]].<ref>Buttweiler, Joe. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50374053/the-journal-times/ "Aldermen raise questions on central-city grocery store proposal"], [[Racine Journal Times]], October 5, 2001, front page.</ref><ref>Buttweiler, Joe. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50383342/the-journal-times/ "Save-A-Lot moves one step forward"], [[Racine Journal Times]], October 9, 2001, page 1C and [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50383541/the-journal-times/ 3C].</ref> Labor organizers continued to criticize the proposal, especially the city of Racine's plan to finance the demolition and redevelopment at a cost of $1.34 million, arguing that public funding should not be used to establish a business opposed to union organization.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50385696/the-journal-times/ "Grocery, security concerns go to council"], [[Racine Journal Times]], October 17, 2001, page 1C.</ref> Despite the controversy, the city council agreed to the plan on December 4, 2001, with the goal of razing the buildings and transferring the property by the following October and allowing the store to open in spring 2003.<ref>Laehr Tenuta, Marci. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50392888/the-journal-times/ "Accord clears way for grocery store"], [[Racine Journal Times]], December 5, 2001, front page and page [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50393182/the-journal-times/ 11A].</ref>
After some delays, all residents and businesses in the 1500 block of State Street were evicted by the end of November 2002, including [[1500 State Street (Racine, Wisconsin)|Rondone's Liquor]] and [[1436 State Street (Racine, Wisconsin)|Nu Vu Trendsetters]].<ref>Block, Dustin. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50394653/the-journal-times/ "Central-city grocery plan displeases some"], [[Racine Journal Times]], November 25, 2002, front page.</ref> The city council gave its final approval for the demolition plan on November 27.<ref>Block, Dustin. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50395401/the-journal-times/ "Plans for central-city grocery get nod from commission"], [[Racine Journal Times]], November 29, 2002, page 1C.</ref> The last building remaining on the block, [[1522 State Street (Racine, Wisconsin)|1522 State Street]], was torn down on February 6, 2003.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50395656/the-journal-times/ "Demolition Day"], [[Racine Journal Times]], February 7, 2003, page 1C.</ref>
A groundbreaking ceremony for State Street Center was held on June 4, 2003.<ref name=persistence>Burke, Michael. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50371472/the-journal-times/ "Persistence, patience pay off"], [[Racine Journal Times]], June 5, 2003, page 1B.</ref> The [[International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers]] picketed at the construction site in October after the developers hired non-union electricians from Milwaukee, arguing that the decision deprived their members of work at a time when one-fourth of Racine's union electricians were unemployed.<ref>Rendon, Guadalupe. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50403672/the-journal-times/ "Unemployed electricians protest nonunion workers"], [[Racine Journal Times]], October 7, 2003, page 1B and [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50404035/the-journal-times/ 3B].</ref> Save-A-Lot, the {{convert|12000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} primary anchor of the shopping center, opened at 7 a.m. on December 11, 2003.<ref>Burke, Michael. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50403234/the-journal-times/ "At the center of it all"], [[Racine Journal Times]], December 11, 2003, front page and page [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50403529/the-journal-times/ 9A].</ref>
==References==
| |||