Lance Martin, Herald Senior Staff Writer

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ROANOKE RAPIDS - Tractor Supply Co. is expected to open June 25 and work on other new businesses in the city is either ongoing or being planned.

Save-A-Lot, a new grocery store located in the old Brendle's building, “should be calling for final inspection,” Roanoke Rapids Planning and Development Director George W. Gurley Jr. said Monday.

Another new grocery store, Farm Fresh, has purchased its building permits.

Work on Tractor Supply continues and Gurley said his department has done inspections in the parking and outside areas of the store.

The Roanoke Rapids store encompasses 28,560 square feet, including sales floor and support service space. A fenced exterior space will be built for storage and display of items such as fencing, sprayers and livestock equipment. The outlet is located inside the old Wal-Mart complex, which is also home to Peebles Department Store.

About 20,000 square feet of the old Brendle's building is being transformed into a Save-A-Lot grocery store in Roanoke Rapids. Opening of that store is expected in the next few months.

Farm Fresh will not only build a grocery store, but 11 retail store spaces attached to the main store.

Plans on file with the city show seven of the retail spaces will be 9,800 square feet, while the remaining four will be 5,600 square feet.

The company has also submitted plans for the grocery store, which will be a 61,015 square-feet building.

The grocery store and shop spaces will be built next to Collier Harley-Davidson at Premier Landing and will serve as an anchor for that development, much like Belk is serving as an anchor for that portion of Premier Landing.