Plans are now underway for the construction of a new Dollar General outlet in downtown Clovis.
The building will go up at 900 W. Seventh Street at the site of the former Alexander’s Fruit Market, which has been demolished to make way for the new Dollar General.
The new store will be a free-standing, one-story affair, measuring just under 10,600 square feet. The overall site itself is not quite 1-acre in size.
The official address for the new store is 702 N. Reid Street, representing the street that runs up along the side of the Seventh Street property.
At 10,600 square feet, the Clovis Dollar General is larger than the average 7,400 square foot store owned by the Goodlettsville, Tennessee-based Dollar General Corporation.
Founded originally as a store called J.L. Turner in Scottsville, Kentucky in 1939, Dollar General today has just under 19,000 stores nationally.
While saturating the South with more than 9,700 stores, Dollar General has also in recent years been trying to expand its footprint in the West. The chain currently has upwards of 130 stores in Arizona, nearly 70 in Colorado, and around 110 in New Mexico.
Although it closed in the 1960s, locals fondly remember the now-levelled Alexander’s Fruit Market in Clovis, which provided the area community with a wide variety of produce and fruits from local farmers based in not just in New Mexico, but also south Texas, Arizona, and California.
In later decades, the building was also home to an upholstery service, which closed down several years ago.
By Garry Boulard
