Convenience store chain Weigel’s, which made its first foray into Chattanooga with the opening of two units this year, has started site work on a third location with hopes of having 15 in the area.
Dirt work has begun at a high-profile vacant parcel on Hixson Pike at Access Road, said Bill Weigel, chairman and chief executive of the company based just outside Knoxville, on Friday.
Weigel said in a telephone interview that plans are to initially build a retaining wall on the tract and then move into erecting the store, which likely will begin in January. The store’s opening is expected about a year from now, he said.
The Hixson Pike store’s size is slightly larger than its first shop, which opened on Highway 153 in Hixson next to Academy Sports + Outdoors.