The Morse Road Northland Village to Get New Kroger
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The once hot Northland area in the 60s and 70s fell into decay and vacancy after Lazarus closed their Northland store a decade or so ago. There’s been a major attempt to revitalize the Morse Road net lease retail area over the last several years with some success. Biggest success is the new Menards store at 1805 Morse Road. Still though, most of the net leased retail is discounters and low end retailers.
Kroger purchased a 13 acres Northland Village for $3.55 mil back in 2014 for eventually replacement of the old Kroger store at 1630 Morse Road.
Developer Mo Dioun, President and founder of Stonehenge Company wants to arraign a community meeting for input from area residents and businesses through the Northland Community Council and Northland Area Business Association. Dioun is the developer of the old Northland site.
According to Emmanuel Remy, NCC president, Kroger will be building one of their largest foot print stores at the site with the store being similar to the one in the brewery district.
In summary, good news that the City of Columbus and area businesses are determined not to let the Northland area decay to the point that Brice Road did. However, we still need some new quality restaurateurs with at least some polished casual restaurants.
