John Tuohy

john.tuohy@indystar.com

Kroger plans to build a super-sized store with a clothing section, Starbucks and restaurant in the Fishers Station shopping center at 116th and Allisonville Road, where Marsh closed up shop in 2015.

Kite Realty Group said this week that it had signed a lease with Kroger Marketplace to build a 123,000-square-foot store that would anchor the center on the northeast corner of the intersection.

There are plans to demolish the shuttered Marsh to make room for the $20 million Kroger, which would be twice its size. A smaller Kroger across the street on the northwest corner of the intersection will be shut, but the gas station on an outlot would remain open.

“We need more room for the larger marketplace and there just wasn’t any way to expand where we were across the street,” said Eric Halvorson, a spokesman for Kroger.

Kite announced that it had signed on two new tenants for the shopping center, Jason’s Deli and Tequila Sunrise, and that some businesses that are there now will remain but be relocated.

An official with Kite could not be reached for comment, but a real estate online flyer depicting the site plan shows that those other tenants could include Goodwill, Dollar Tree, Coldstone Creamery and a Little Caesar’s pizza.

The Kroger would be on the east end of the shopping center and the other tenants would be where the Marsh store was, closest to Allisonville Road.

Halvorson said the Kroger will be much like one that opened in Fishers at 116th Street and Olio Road in November 2016. The clothing section, with fitting rooms, will take up about one-fourth of the store. The bistro-style restaurant, with seating, will sell pizza, sandwiches, sushi and barbecue.

The store’s construction is part of Kroger’s announced plans in 2015 to spend $465 million in the Indianapolis area to build 11 new stores and upgrade 22 more by the end of 2017. Kite didn't give a construction time-line but said it would begin "in the near future."

The Kite real estate flyer touts Fishers as Indiana’s fastest-growing community and says the suburb’s “affluent consumer base and strong population growth will likely continue to drive consumer traffic into the near future.”

According to Kite, 159,000 people live within five miles of the shopping center and the average yearly household income in that area is nearly $103,000.

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