Small grocery store speculated for Utica’s future

Scott Moulder, Seneca city administrator, announces that “contracts are in place” to develop a mixed-use development in the Utica community on the property that sported a textile plant for around 100 years.  During a meeting yesterday, Moulder said developers are interested in a combination residential and commercial project on the S. 6th Street property.  He spoke during the annual Black History Tea, sponsored by the Oconee Branch of the NAACP, in response to a question about what can be done to attract a store to fill created by the closing of the Hometown Food Store on N. Walnut Street.  The closing of Hometown left the downtown with a grocery store.  If successful the Utica project, Moulder speculates, could attract someone to open a grocery there that would be handy to both residents of Utica as well as those who live in Seneca neighborhoods south of the railroad tracks.