Contributor Post: The Last of Its Kind - Kroger #729, Dayton, Ohio
The following is a SMR:MCRH Contributor Post. Kroger Cincinnati/Dayton Division #729 700 Spinning Road, Dayton, OH Driving distance and time from downtown Detroit: 215 miles, approx. 3 hours 25 minutes Today I am introducing a new feature here on Southeast Michigan Retail called "Beyond Southeast Michigan". In "Beyond Southeast Michigan", you will virtually visit stores located outside of Southeast Michigan. For our first installment of "Beyond Southeast Michigan", we will be looking at not only one of the last operational intact greenhouse Kroger stores (even though it originally didn't open as one)...but also the last Kroger store operating with Bauhaus decor! Located in Dayton, OH, this Kroger opened on December 17, 1965, as the first component of the Spinning Plaza shopping center, and was expanded into a greenhouse store, the first in the Dayton area, reopening from that expansion on November 5, 1978 , and has remained unchanged since. It was a