A new Dollar General store is set to open soon in Waverly, despite pushback from neighbors, community leaders and elected officials who say they had a grander vision for a long-vacant space.
Waverly community leaders have been working to foster independent businesses and a distinctive neighborhood feel on the Greenmount Avenue corridor. But with the discount retailer soon to open at 3133 Greenmount Ave., the site of a vacated Rite-Aid, nearby residents and community leaders are rushing to make sure the incoming shop meets community expectations and their elected representatives are looking to draft new rules to limit the creep of discount stores like it.
The company calls the new spot a neighborhood general store, featuring affordable goods as well as fresh produce, but for neighbors and community leaders, the incoming store came as an unwanted surprise.
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