She said it was too early in the process to say whether the new Pete’s will include an in-store bank. The store also will offer conventional and organic produce, she said. Pete’s also is hoping to include a satellite Starbuck’s coffee shop, as did the Dominick’s Oak Park store. She said the store will have a full service meat and seafood counter, deli and homemade bakery department. “We want to make sure the people of Oak Park are not deprived of a grocery store, but we want to do it right,” she said. She said that although the grocery store aims to open before the end of the year, it is uncertain how long renovation of the building will take. Dremonas encouraged Oak Park residents who have never been to Pete’s to visit its Oakbrook Terrace location at 17w 675 W. Pete’s currently has nine locations in the Chicagoland area. She declined to disclose the terms of the purchase. Dominick’s opened its Oak Park store in 1988, having built fresh on the site of an old commuter bus terminal. She said the company considered the shuttered River Forest Dominick’s location, 7501 North Ave., along with several other locations in the Chicagoland area, but for now is focusing on getting the Oak Park location going. It’s exciting for us to plan a store that is diverse.” “It’s an array of people, ranging from white collar to blue collar. “It’s not just one race or one ethnicity or one economic class,” she said. She said the Oak Park Dominick’s, one of 72 locations that closed in December, was an attractive site for Pete’s because of the diversity of its customer base. “So people can look forward to seeing their neighbors working in their local grocery store.” “We like to hire from the community,” she said. ![]() She said once the land purchase is complete, Pete’s will begin working on the design of the store, which is expected to employ 100 to 125 staff.
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