Manchester Square shopping center in Columbus, hurt by anchor store vacancies in recent years, is about to see some new life, welcoming a grocery store chain new to the market and a fitness center already in the city expanding to a second location.

Food Depot, operated by Stockbridge, Ga.-based All American Quality Foods Inc., is locating in 47,892 square feet of space at 5600 Milgen Road that formerly was home to a Piggly Wiggly supermarket. Phenix City-based JTm Corp., which operates the area Piggly Wiggly markets, closed that location last summer just as it was opening a newly built state-of-the-art and environmentally friendly store on Woodruff Farm Road.

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