Mayor Harvey Johnson Jr. announced that Vowell’s Market Place will open a grocery store at the shopping center located at 2101 Raymond Road, the same place that housed a Kroger store that left in 2007.
The Mississippi based supermarket will create between 40 and 50 jobs in the city of Jackson and is anticipated to bring 8 to 10 million dollars in annual sales.
“Vowell’s has built a reputation of great customer service and commitment to the community, said Johnson. “In fact, Vowell’s continues to build a reputation of stepping in and filling the need for local, community grocery stores, often after others have left.”
Johnson also said that Vowell’s should have a great stream of customers from the growing population in south Jackson, due in part to the Timber Falls and Forrest Hills Place subdivisions. These neighborhoods have added 350 single family homes and two new JPS schools, Bates Elementary and Cardozo Middle School. The schools are slated to open along the McDowell Road extension in September.
This announcement follows a recent City Council meeting where the council passed an order approving a Special Economic Grant to Vowell’s in the amount of $50,000 to assist with equipment upgrades.
This is the first such award of this reimbursement grant which is available to businesses that make at least $1.5 million in improvements and create at least 30 jobs.
Vowell’s Market Place is owned and operated out of Louisville, Miss. It opened its first store in 1945 in Noxapater, Miss. A second store was opened in 1977 in Louisville, Miss. The Jackson store will bring the company to eight (8) stores in Mississippi and one in Alabama.
The store is scheduled to open at the end of September.
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