Wegmans Stonehenge Village Groundbreaking
County officials assist Marchetti Properties and Wegmans by turning a few shovels of dirt.
Marchetti Properties LLC., owner of Stonehenge Village Shopping Center and Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. held a groundbreaking ceremony for the Wegmans 120,000 square foot Midlothian store today at Stonehenge Village.
Wegmans will anchor the planned Stonehenge Village Shopping Center.
Chesterfield County Administrator, Jay Stegmaier, welcomes Wegmans to Chesterfield.
Stonehenge Village is a master-planned retail development that will contain approximately 230,000 square feet of retail uses, including a grocery store, restaurants and other shops. The project is located in a well-established retail corridor and is centrally located to serve the Midlothian community and the broader, highly suburbanized northwest portion of Chesterfield County.
Jay Stegmaier introduces Bobby Marchetti of Marchetti Properties.
The Store is expected to open in the spring of 2016 and will be the first Wegmans to open in the Richmond Region.
Bob Farr, District Manager, Wegmans
The store is expected to employ 550 to 600 people in full- and part-time positions. Wegmans has been on FORTUNE magazine’s list of the ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’ for eighteen consecutive years, ranking #7 in 2015.
Daniel Gecker, Supervisor, Midlothian District welcomes Wegmans.
Wegmans currently operates six stores in Virginia and will open a seventh in Alexandria in June. The company has also announced plans to open stores in Short Pump and Charlottesville.
Daniel Gecker welcomes Jerry Shelly who is the Midlothian Store Manager for Wegmans.
Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. is an 85-store supermarket chain with stores in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, and Massachusetts. The family-owned company, founded in 1916, is recognized as an industry leader and innovator. Wegmans ranked #1 for Corporate Reputation, among the 100 ‘most-visible companies’ nationwide in the 2014 Harris Poll Reputation Quotient ® study.
Site work is well under way and construction will start very soon.
Marchetti Properties is a family-owned retail center developer and owner in the Greater Richmond area.
