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The Publix on Daniel island will close on Christmas Eve to make way for a new store to be built in its place. It's a considerable Claus and effect, leaving residents without a grocery store for a year. 'I'm here for the snacks.
' Take a look inside Trader Joe's new Mount Pleasant store. The 29,618-square-foot supermarket on Seven Farms Drive will be demolished and a bigger Publix and a pocket park will be built in the same location, according to plans presented to the city of Charleston. The new store's layout will measure 50,472 square feet.
"It is always our goal to provide our customers with the best shopping experience possible, and that requires renovations and at time, store closures, but we're looking forward to reopening with a premier facility for our customers," Publix spokesperson Nicole Maristany Krauss said. Publix rebuild will leave Daniel Island without a supermarket for a spell The future Publix is expected to open in the fourth quarter in 2025. In the meantime, employees will be tranferred to other locations, Krauss noted.
"Some will find their new Publix home and want to remain in their new locations even after the store reopens while some will want to return to their prior home store," she said. During the closure, the closest full-service supermarkets for Daniel Island residents are on Clements Ferry Road near Cainhoy and on Long Point Road in Mount Pleasant. Plans to expand the existing Publix store have been in the works since 2017, but the project stalled after the city asked the grocer to include windows, tweak its façade and come back with more renderings.
The Lakeland, Fla.-based company maintained the inclusion of real windows interfered with freezer space, displays and storage. The grocer withdrew its expansion plan in 2019 and submitted a new proposal for a larger replacement store the following year.
Publix locked down an exclusive deal years ago ensuring it's the only supermarket store on Daniel Island..
