Full-service grocery store nearing completion, looking to bring fresh food to Dayton community

There’s a new grocery store coming to Dayton’s west side, and community members said this is a long time coming.

Homefull Facility is close to opening at 807 S. Gettysburg Road, included in the property is a grocery store.

Although the grocery store is 14,000 square feet, there are another three spaces on the ground floor that include a food hub, a Kettering Health clinic, and a pharmacy.

The project is in its final stages.

They are set to employ over 200 people from the community.

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Chief Business Development Officer John Patterson shared the reaction from the community.

“Our superintendent says two people stopped by yesterday wanting to know how to get a job here and so the energy is really, really positive and high and I think people want to be a part of it,” Patterson said.

Dozens are coming by the facility for a tour.

“The grocery store is enormous, I think it’s, it’s and that it could potentially open right before Thanksgiving would be such an amazing opportunity for the residents,” Errin Siske said after his tour.

A name for the store has not yet been released.

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