Family Dollar will soon open a store in West Dearborn.

Dearborn’s ACO Hardware and LaPita restaurant will soon have a new retail neighbor on Newman Street.

While we can debate whether it’s the right kind of retail for West Dearborn, the addition of a Family Dollar store to fill a long-vacant building (not owned by Norm Newman who has his share of vacant buildings in our town), might help ACO and other businesses in this particular strip mall.

The owners of Family Dollar have been talking about moving into the former fabric store for about two years, according to one city official. We mentioned two months ago it was coming here.

Now, it appears the owners are a bit more serious having installed a Family Dollar sign on the building. Along Michigan Avenue, a new fixture has been installed to hold another sign for Family Dollar.

Inside the vacant building  there isn’t much going on just yet.  But it probably won’t be long. Installing shelving to stock rows and rows of made in China products shouldn’t take long . . .