March Issue

In 2007, The Kroger Company, one of the nation’s largest grocery retailers, began planning construction of a new Marketplace Store in Harrison, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati), to replace an existing store.
The new complex was to be built on farmland in front of an existing condominium complex, and the condo owners, mostly retirees, were not thrilled by the prospect of looking out their windows and seeing the back of a new mall.
Because the existing treeline that separated the condos and the store site would have to be removed in the course of construction, Kroger wanted to provide a proper replacement that would shield the view of the structure in an aesthetically pleasing way.