Gibsonville could be closer to having a “full-service” grocery store for the first time in decades.
Town officials – longtime former mayor Lenny Williams, who retired at the end of this January, was among the most vocal – have long pointed to their desire to have a grocery store within the town’s municipal limits since its last full-service grocery store, Byrd’s, was sold to Lowes Foods in 1997 and later closed.
Retired former Republican state senator Rick Gunn is now lending a hand in the effort to recruit a commercial developer for a 28-acre parcel of land in Gibsonville’s jurisdiction that came on the commercial real estate market Friday for $4.8 million…