Rouses Markets to open fifth Mississippi store in Biloxi - WXXV News 25

Rouses Markets plans to unfastened its 5th Mississippi store successful Biloxi.

CEO Donny Rouse said Friday that the institution has agreed to lease abstraction astatine 2348 Pass Road astatine the country of Popps Ferry Road, tract of the erstwhile Winn-Dixie.

The 60,000 quadrate feet of abstraction volition acquisition a broad remodel, some interior and façade.

“I cognize Biloxi volition beryllium precise excited astir what we bash with the space,” said Rouse. “It volition beryllium precise antithetic from the aged market supplier that was successful that spot, not lone successful however it looks, but successful the products and services offered. We transportation everything section from seafood and section nutrient to full lines of Gulf Coast made products, not conscionable 1 oregon 2 selections. We volition person our ain Sausage Kitchen, Smokehouse, Bakery, Florist and Seafood Boiling Room successful the store, and everything you could privation to eat.”

“This is exciting,” Mayor Andrew “FoFo” Gilich said today. “The improvement is simply a nonstop effect of our plans to widen Popp’s Ferry to U.S. 90, making the country a large corridor connecting communities eastbound and westbound and northbound and southbound of the bay. This is simply a cleanable illustration of a public/private concern betwixt the City of Biloxi, X3 Tango Development, SMPDD, and Rouses Markets.”

Work connected the store is anticipated to commencement successful April, with an opening targeted for Spring 2024. The Biloxi determination volition beryllium the company’s 5th store successful Mississippi. It volition employment astir 200 people.

The Louisiana-based grocer announced a caller store successful Picayune, Mississippi, successful October.