Supermarket chain Publix is looking at growing its Chattanooga area footprint again with a possible store in Fort Oglethorpe.
A Publix store would anchor a new shopping center at the corner of Battlefield Parkway and Dietz Road, according to development plans.
David Holcombe, a broker for the real estate firm Crossman & Co., said Publix hasn’t signed a lease in the proposed Fort Oglethorpe center yet, but there are hopes to finalize the deal in the next two to three weeks.
Plans are for the new store, estimated at about 40,000 square feet in size, to open in summer 2018, he said.
Also, the development firm, which he wouldn’t immediately name, would build about 15,000 square feet of other space at the center.