One of the nation’s largest “dollar store” chains is gearing up to fill a gap in its coverage of Sonoma County and at the same time is solving a long-running problem with vacancy in the Windsor shopping center.
Work is underway to bring together seven spaces on the north side of the Raley’s grocery store in the Lakewood Shopping Center as a 13,000-square-foot Dollar Tree location. It would be on the large side for the Chesapeake, Virgina-based retailer, which noted its stores typically have 8,000–10,000 square feet but can can be as large as 12,000 square feet.
This will be Dollar Tree’s first location in the town and 36th in the North Bay. It fits between its farthest-north Sonoma County store, in Healdsburg, and its five locations in Santa Rosa…