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What store is Tuxedo getting?

A Dollar General is going up on Old Greenville Highway across from Tuxedo Community Park.

A new Dollar General is going up in Tuxedo.

Contractors were working last Sunday afternoon on the metal building that will house the discount retailer, the only chain store along Old Greenville Highway in the rural community. The new store is going up six years after Dollar General pulled the plug on a plan to build on the same site.

In late 2013, Westside Village Properties LLC filed a request to rezone a 1.42-acre parcel tract across from the future Tuxedo Community Park from R2R residential to Local Commercial Conditional. Westside, which owns the Dollar General shopping strip on N.C. 191 at Mountain Road, withdrew the zoning application when Dollar General decided traffic was insufficient to support a store. Since then Tuxedo Community Park has opened, drawing more traffic to the area. The new building request did not require a rezoning because the land-use category changed from R2R residential to local commercial when the county adopted the Green River-Tuxedo-Zirconia small area plan, county Zoning Code Enforcement Services Director Toby Linville said.

Kelly Broadway Group LLC, a commercial development company based in Huntsville, Alabama, received a building permit last September for a 9,100-square-foot building at a projected cost of $441,000. Property owner Kenneth Allen sold the 1.4-acre vacant lot for $165,000 on Oct. 28, land records show.

Reaction on Facebook to the news was mixed.

"Oh, no!" Helen Stroud wrote.

"I’m thrilled," said Patty McDuff. "Our neighbor refers to it as Tuxedo’s Walmart."