CHAIN TO BUILD BASE IN REGION; RITE AID PICKS LANCASTER SITE.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer Drug store chain Rite Aid Rite Aid (NYSE: RAD) is a United States retailer and pharmacy chain, operating over 5,000 stores in 31 states and the District of Columbia. Rite Aid Corporation is one of the nation's leading drugstore chains. Corp. will begin construction next month on a $60 million to $70 million distribution center in Lancaster, which will employ 400 people to start and could have as many as 1,000 workers eventually. The owner of the Payless and Thrifty chains, Pennsylvania-based Rite Aid will build a 1 million-square-foot distribution center for the western United States Noun 1. western United States - the region of the United States lying to the west of the Mississippi River West Santa Fe Trail - a trail that extends from Missouri to New Mexico; an important route for settlers moving west in the 19th century on 88 acres it is buying from the city for $1. ``Obviously this facility will have a major impact on our economy. This means more jobs and fewer commuters on the freeway,'' Lancaster Mayor Frank Roberts Frank Roberts may refer to:
Peter Barton Wilson (born August 23, 1933) is an American Republican politician from California. Wilson served as the thirty-sixth Governor of California (1991–1999), the culmination of more than three decades in the public arena that , who cited it during his budget message as a further sign of California shedding its anti-business reputation. The company, which announced plans last year to open dozens of Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, stores, expects to begin construction at 30th Street West between Avenues G-8 and H in February and plans to be ready for business in the fall of 1999. Rite Aid plans to have 400 employees when the distribution center opens and then grow to 850 workers within three years. Eventually the company said it could have 1,000 workers at the site. To land the project, Lancaster is selling the 88 acres to Rite Aid for $1. Lancaster also will forgo $1.4 million in development fees. Rite Aid, which has more than 3,900 stores in 31 states and the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). , also received offers from Arizona and Nevada. |
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