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Cave Spring Corners

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NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2019

LARGE DEPARTMENT STORE once
anchored a busy retail center in Southwest
Roanoke County.
In 1970, W.T. Grant or Grants, a former U.S. chain,
filled the space of today's Kroger at Cave Spring
Corners on Brambleton Avenue, as seen in this photo.
The retail center was built in 1969 as Grant Plaza,
and it was one of the first multi-retail developments in
the Roanoke Valley, according to "A History of Back
Creek: Bent Mountain, Poages Mill, Cave Spring, and
Starkey" by Nelson Harris. In 1970, nearby Virginia
419 opened to traffic, likely adding to Grant Plaza's
traffic and appeal.
Grants closed its Roanoke store when the chain
went bankrupt in the mid 1970s, and Hills, another
department store chain, moved in. Hills stayed there
through the early 1990s, before it was acquired by

Ames, another retailer that moved into the Roanoke
space.
But in 2005, Kroger, which at the time had a smaller
store at the opposite south end of Cave Spring Corners,
decided to shift its location. It renovated and expanded
the former Ames store to about 60,000 square feet and
moved over.
The next year, in keeping with the retail center's
department store history, Hamrick's, a retail chain based
in South Carolina, opened in Kroger's former space at
the south end of Cave Spring Corners.
Today, the 147,133-square-foot center remains a
bustling retail enterprise, housing at least 12 businesses,
from service establishments to Dollar General. Kroger,
which renovated its store in 2018, draws an average
of 24,000 customers a week, according to Brixmor, a
company that manages and leases Cave Spring Corners. I
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A string of department stores once anchored this busy retail center in Roanoke County.



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