YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP, MI - The building that will house a new Fresh Thyme grocery store is nearing completion, but it's unclear when it will open for business.

In a letter to a local resident who shared it with The Ann Arbor News, a company representative said that the earliest the store would open is 2017.

A different representative from Fresh Thyme's marketing company, Chicago-based Zapwater, said there's no target date for it to open.

"Unfortunately, we are still working to confirm the opening and do not have additional information to share at this time," Neda Bencun, a Zapwater publicist, told The Ann Arbor News.

Ypsilanti Township Planning Director Joe Lawson previously said he expected the store to be open in July or August. That information was received from InSite, the developer that is building the 30,000-square-foot store at the intersection of Washtenaw and Golfside.

The store is being built on the site of the former Ypsi-Arbor Bowl, which closed in 2011 and sat vacant for several years. Township officials and residents are excited for the development because the only other grocery store on Ypsilanti Township's west side is in the Ellsworth Road Walmart Supercenter.

Fresh Thyme, described as a cross between Trader Joe's and Whole Foods, opened its first Michigan location in 2015.