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A Closer Look at Meijer's Oak Creek Proposal

Plans call for an outdoor garden center, gas station and drive-through pharmacy at Meijer's new Oak Creek store.

A 192,940-square-foot Meijer store in the Drexel Town Square development would include an outdoor garden center, a drive-through pharmacy and a gas station, according to plans submitted to the city. 

The Oak Creek Plan Commission is set to review the plans Tuesday. The commission, which meets at 6 p.m. at City Hall, will forward a recommendation to the Common Council, which makes the final decision. 

Among the other details of the Meijer proposal included in a report to Plan Commission members:

The company expects to create 200 and 250 full-time and part-time positions at the Oak Creek store, which will have 60 employees on site at any one time. 

The gas station would be along Howell Avenue and include a 2,500-square-foot convenience store. 

Both Meijer and the gas station would be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and every day of the year except Christmas. 

The site would have 703 total parking spaces, with a little more than with 600 of those making up the main parking lot north of the building. 

As previously reported, Meijer is planned for the eastern end of the 85-acre Drexel Town Square development at Drexel and Howell avenues. 

The store would serve as the anchor of the development, which will create a new downtown for Oak Creek and include shops, restaurants, apartments, office space and a new city hall-library building. 

City officials expect construction on Meijer and the city hall-library to be under way next spring, and many Drexel Town Square businesses to begin opening in spring 2015.


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