New grocery option coming to Mount Pleasant: Festival Foods bringing hundreds of jobs

MOUNT PLEASANT (WITI) -- Festival Foods plans to open a grocery store inside Mount Pleasant's former Sentry Foods location.

According to the Racine Journal Times, the store will employ 240 to 250 people.

The store is set to open this fall -- and it will be open 24 hours a day.

Officials plan to expand the store's size to about 70,000 square feet.

The former Sentry grocery store closed in January of 2013.