Save-A-Lot to open in Mariners’ Mall
by Peter Jakey–Managing Editor
A Save-A-Lot grocery store is expected to open around Feb. 1 in the Mariners’ Mall in Rogers City.
Freeman Family Enterprises of Gaylord, which owns and operates 23 Save-A-Lot stores including all the stores in northern Michigan, will be moving into the space long vacated by Presque Isle Pharmacy in 1998.
“We had been looking at Rogers City for a while,” said president Tim Freeman. “We talked with the owners of the building and worked out the details on the lease.”
The store will occupy just under 14,000 square feet. “The east side of the building is about 30-inches lower than the west side, so we have to put fill in and pour a new floor to bring it up to the same level,” said Freeman. “We will completely demolish everything inside. It will virtually be a brand n
Freeman Family Enterprises is owned and operated by Tim, Tom and Paul Freeman, the grandsons of Glen’s Market founder, C. Glen Catt. “So, we have been connected with Rogers City for a number of years,” said Freeman. “We are third generation grocers. In 1999, we owned 26 Glen’s Markets that sold to Spartan Stores and me and my brothers worked out an agreement with our dad and uncle to purchase the three Save-A-Lot stores in Alpena, East Tawas and Cadillac.
The company has stores from Sault Ste. Marie to south of Grand Rapids. They plan to hire 18 to 20 associates.