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From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
Franklin's first Sendik's grocery expected to open in autumn
By TOM DAYKIN
[email protected]Posted: June 15, 2007
The first Sendik's supermarket in the southern portion of the Milwaukee metropolitan area will open this fall, one of the store's owners said Friday.
Work began this week on the 57,000-square-foot Sendik's at Fountains of Franklin, a Franklin retail and office center north of W. Rawson Ave. and west of S. 51st St. It will be the fifth Sendik's store operated by Ted Balistreri and his siblings.
"We can't wait to be here," Balistreri said during a groundbreaking ceremony. He and his family operate Sendik's stores in Whitefish Bay, Wauwatosa, Mequon and Grafton.
The supermarket is being developed by Devo Properties and will be leased to Sendik's, said Devo owner Greg Devorkin. He said Fountains of Franklin recently landed another tenant, a 4,000-square-foot Bank Mutual branch.
Franklin Mayor Tom Taylor said the Fountains of Franklin site a year ago had empty, deteriorating buildings.
"We are literally moving from eyesores to gems," Taylor said.
Franklin's population, estimated last year at 33,000 by the state Department of Administration, has increased 11.9% since the 2000 census. The city has about 40 residential developments under construction. Its population is expected to reach 45,000 by 2020.
Sendik's is an upscale grocery chain rooted in Milwaukee's affluent North Shore and western suburbs.
Other members of the extended Balistreri family, who own the Sendik's at 18985 W. Capitol Drive, in Brookfield, plan to develop a Franklin store at The Shoppes of Wyndham Village, a new retail center planned for the southeast corner of Highway 100 and W. Drexel Ave. Developer Mark Carstensen has not yet started construction.
Another branch of the Balistreri-Sendik family operates Sendik's stores in Milwaukee, Bayside and another Brookfield location, while John Nehring and Anne Finch-Nehring own a Sendik's in Shorewood.
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