Aldi set to open in November; Site work underway on Publix store

Aldi may open in early November

Work is pro­gress­ing on con­struc­tion of the Aldi super­mar­ket in Winchester Plaza, just off I‑64 Exit 94. Employment appli­ca­tions are now being accepted. 

Over the week­end, a job appli­cant told WinCity Voices that a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of Aldi said the tar­get date for open­ing the new store was ear­ly November. 

Aldi is a dis­count gro­cery store that has been increas­ing its foot­print in Central Kentucky. The Winchester store is locat­ed in the space most recent­ly occu­pied by Bargain Hunt, which went out of busi­ness last year.

Site work begins on Publix location

On Tuesday morn­ing, it was appar­ent that work had begun at the site of Winchester’s newest shop­ping cen­ter, to be known as Winchester Village. The cen­ter will be anchored by a Publix super­mar­ket. Other ten­ants have not yet been announced.

The site is at the Southeast cor­ner of the inter­sec­tion of Bypass Rd. and Colby Rd. in Winchester. The site was pre­vi­ous­ly home to a walk­ing trail. 

Dozers and back­hoes could be seen Tuesday bring­ing down trees. There has been much dis­cus­sion on social media about the removal of trees. In par­tic­u­lar, there is one tree that some locals believe to be among the old­est in the area, and they have asked whether the tree could be preserved.

WinCity Voices is not aware of any con­tact between local preser­va­tion­ists and the devel­op­ers, but time would seem to be of the essence at this point.

No open­ing date for the Winchester Publix has been announced.