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Village Hopes New Woodman's Will Open This Year In Plainfield: Mayor
The intersection of 119th Street and Route 59 will also see significant road improvements thanks to the new grocery store.
PLAINFIELD, IL — It's only a matter of time until Plainfield residents can shop for groceries at the new Woodman's Food Market.
Mayor John Argoudelis is hopeful the grocery store will break ground this year and open by the end of 2025, he told Patch in an update Friday. Officials announced in early 2024 that the company submitted a plan to build a store at the corner of 119th Street and Route 59.
The employee-owned company, founded in 1919, purchased the 36-acre lot where it plans to open a 240,000-square-foot store on a 36-acre plot of land that would also house a fuel center featuring a car wash, convenience store and oil change center. The site would also feature seven outlots open to additional development, Patch reported.
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Woodman's has yet to submit their final plans for the plot, according to the mayor.
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With the new grocery store option will come a brand-new, fully improved intersection at 119th Street and Route 59. That entails dedicated left, right and through turn lanes, full crosswalks, and new light signals — "all the bells and whistles ... that'll help traffic flow immensely," Argoudelis said.
The village gave Woodman's $12 million in tax abatement in order to get them into town and help facilitate the road improvements, the mayor said.
"The main question mark is how quickly they can get through the IDOT process," Argoudelis said. "I would hope that by the end of the year will have an open Woodman's; that's the village's goal."
Plainfield staff first began working with the Woodman's team immediately following Walmart's closure in March 2023 to potentially redevelop the vacant lot, but efforts were unsuccessful, Patch reported. Woodman's location would allow the grocery store to provide locals with a "better finished product than anything that was afforded to them by the former [Walmart] location."
Currently, the closest Woodman's to Plainfield is in North Aurora.
"The sooner they open up, the better for everyone in Plainfield," Argoudelis said Friday.
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