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Walmart is planning expansion projects at its Bennett Road store, Fredonia’s chief building officer Charles LaBarbera said last week.
LaBarbera discussed two proposed projects at a Fredonia Board of Trustees workshop.
"One is a fuel cell and convenience store that they are just starting to work on," he said. "They want to come to the (Fredonia) Planning Board for an unofficial hearing." LaBarbera said that won’t happen until the board’s December meeting, and possibly not until January.
"They're also doing major renovations to the building," LaBarbera mentioned. One will be a revamp of the pharmacy.
"They're gonna do a sushi bar type of take out," LaBarbera added. "Their online ordering is going very well, so they're renovating that area as well."
The Bennett Road Walmart opened with much fanfare in 1993. It was the first development on that stretch of Route 60 west of the road and north of Lucky Lanes. A K-Mart, which is now a Home Depot, followed just two years later.
Like many of the original Walmarts, there was no cold storage grocery section. That was added in a subsequent expansion.
Walmart also briefly had a gas station on the site around 15 or 20 years ago.