Editor's note: The video above is from October 2021.
PAGEDALE, Mo. – When one door closes, another one opens.
After Save A Lot shuttered its doors in Pagedale in November 2021, a new shop is popping up.
The building is located on the southwest corner of Page and Ferguson avenues at 6840 Page Ave in north St. Louis County.
Green Field Foods signs are planted outside of the abandoned building, signaling it's coming soon.
On the Field Foods website, the company said its St. Louis' full-service grocery for fresh, locally produced foods. Field Foods shares that it's a one-stop-shop for families on a budget.
Nonprofit Beyond Housing's CEO Chris Krehmeyer confirmed the news with 5 On Your Side.
Back in 2010, Save A Lot was one of the first grocery stores to open in the area in decades.
In 2009, Beyond Housing assembled a $6 million deal to build the store, with Pagedale's mayor at the time, Mary Carter.
Carter claimed her municipality never had a grocery store during her 44 years of living there.
Krehmeyer said Save A Lot initially came to life after hearing input from the community. They voiced how much they wanted a grocery store.
In October 2021, Pagedale's Mayor Ernest Shields said the news was devastating.
Shields explained the closest grocery store, which is out of city limits, would be about less than two miles away in University City.
That's about a 20-minute walk.
At the time, Shields promised residents a new store would be coming.
"I say to the citizens of Pagedale, bear with us, we won’t leave that empty long,” he said in an interview in October.
The plan is to have Field Foods tentatively open mid-January.