Publix Construction on Romany Road
In 2025, the old Kroger (previously Randall’s) on Romany Road was demolished, and excavation has begun for a new Publix grocery store on its site. The new building will have 2 levels of underground parking, as well as a limited amount of ground-level parking.
Below is a recent rendering provided by the company. Latest estimates are that the store may open sometime in 2027.
The construction company, WIMCO Corp, sends out periodic updates by email. The latest update is pasted below. To receive these updates directly, please email Trae Shipley.
We do see an end to the extra hours and weekends rock hammering and trench cutting. Foundation has started going in and hope to start setting the precast walls and parking decks by the end of April. As noted, before once this starts it will take about 2 months to complete and traffic delays will be ongoing during 7-5 timeline normally.
We are still moving along with excavating, but this should be wrapping up at the end of month. Crane will come onsite around the second week of April and start installing the precast panels and parking structures. This will continue for about 45-60 days. As we have said before this will make Romany Road very difficult to travel down during the day. We will have traffic teams in place with road closures. We will do our best to make sure the town is impacted to least amount but as I have said this will be very difficult and challenging. We are still on schedule with estimated June of 2027 opening.
We had several meetings this week with some of our contractors on meeting some deadlines for the erection process of the new Publix. We will be increasing our working hours per city ordinance to 7-11pm over the coming three weeks. We will be incorporating weekends too as the weather this year has been not very nice to our production schedule. We will do everything in our power not to disturb the neighborhood but wanted to reach out and let you know. I see this ending by April 7th from our standpoint.


We are still under heavy excavation and now have started some of the forming supports for the precast wall coming in late March. The precast walls and parking decking will consist of over 400 pieces in all. These will be staged offsite and brought in and install daily. There will be about 8-10 pieces installed daily on the average. This depends on weather conditions and any issues that may arise. This will be done during between 7am-5pm Monday thru Friday. We do our best to have the least amount of impact on traffic but this will be challenging for about two months.Our estimates have the crane coming in onsite around the last week of March with starting the setting process on April 1st. This is our latest and greatest estimate at this time but if you have any questions or concerns, please let me know directly. I have added a couple photo below one of the jobsite conditions and precast exterior panel that is being prepared in Greenville SC. Next update late March.


We are still plugging along with excavation and drilling holes into the ground for our underground parking garage. We will continue this for the next 45-50 days ahead before our precast concrete arrives in middle March. When the precast starts arriving we will keep you up to date on road closures during its arrival. Schedule is still moving well even with the very cold weather and snow. We will give you another update as we get closer to the end of February.
We are almost completed at Duke and should be out of the way by Friday. Lexington Water is onsite at Romany Road bringing the main water connection into the site and will take 3-5 days to complete if not sooner. They have their own road permits so we do not control their schedule and impact. Excavation and drilling still underway for the upcoming months. Let us know if you have any questions or concerns. Have a great Christmas and Happy New Year.
We are a couple weeks away from finishing road work in Duke Road. As you can see, we ran into many issues in the road, but we are almost complete and will turn the road over to ATS to complete their work. They are not affiliated with our project but doing the road work around the area. New fencing and noise barrier is going in place around the new Publix and earth moving and excavation will begin in the coming days and will continue for the next 4-6 weeks as we dig out the hole for parking garage. This work will be done during normal business hours at this point. Have a great week and let us know if you have any questions or concerns.
