Clearing Underway for New Kroger at the Corner at Short Pump

Goodbye forest, hello pavement and concrete. It’s a trend in the Far West End that doesn’t seem to be ending soon. This week crews began clearing land at the corner of Lauderdale Drive and West Broad Street to begin construction of The Corner at Short Pump, just across the street from Short Pump Town Center.

The anchor tenant of this 225,000 square foot mixed use shopping hub will be a gourmet Kroger grocery store. The current Kroger next to Target in the Brookhollow Shopping Center will close once the new store opens.

The land borders the Wellesley community to the South and the 90-acre Pruitt farm to the West. The farmland is one of the last untouched areas of Short Pump. Hopefully it won’t go the way of its former neighbor down Broad, Liesfeld farm – now home to West Broad Village, the biggest project since the development of Innsbrook.