Three-store, family-owned Dorothy Lane Market plans to open its first Greater Cincinnati grocery store in the city of Mason as part of a new $150M+ mixed-use planned community, it announced Wednesday.
The 70-acre mixed-use development will feature 80,000 square feet of specialty retail and restaurants, including the gourmet grocer. The site is located at the former Western Row Golf Course. Traditions Building & Development Group is co-developing the project with Western Row Land Developers, the property owners.
The development will feature five lakes, a waterfront boardwalk, and walking paths with a central green connecting DLM, restaurants, and retail shops to a boutique hotel and residential lifestyle community (up to 120 residences) on the site as well as nearby neighborhoods.
“Dorothy Lane Market will be a wonderful anchor for our new walkable community, which will create an exciting destination for upscale retail and restaurants and the latest in lifestyle living opportunities,” said Tom Humes, president of Traditions Group and project co-developer, in a statement.
DLM currently operates locations in the Dayton, Ohio area: in Oakwood, Washington Township, and Springboro. The grocer has been family owned and operated since 1948.
“We’re very excited by the prospect of joining the Mason community,” says Norman Mayne, DLM owner, in a statement. “For over 70 years, we’ve been serving customers in Dayton, but also many who come to us from the Greater Cincinnati area. We’ve been searching for years for the right place for a store there. We feel fortunate to have found this excellent location in Mason. It’s been great to work with the City of Mason and we already feel at home there.”
The project is subject to final agreements between all parties and receiving all necessary planning commission, governmental and final Council approvals. Pending these approvals, groundbreaking is anticipated for 2022.
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