Dollar General opens

  • The inside of the store is ready to open, according to its district manager. Everyone is waiting on the building inspector to approve the handicap parking space. [photo by Gary Meyer, The Mountain Enterprise]

    The inside of the store is ready to open, according to its district manager. Everyone is waiting on the building inspector to approve the handicap parking space. [photo by Gary Meyer, The Mountain Enterprise]

UPDATE: FRAZIER PARK, CA (Monday, July 25, 2016 at 1:45 p.m.)—Dollar General opened at 1:23 p.m.

UPDATE: FRAZIER PARK, CA (Monday, July 25, 2016 at 8:30 a.m.)—Construction Supervisor Brent Haslem said this morning that the handicap parking is to be inspected today around noon. The store cannot open until the handicap spaces have passed inspection.

UPDATE: FRAZIER PARK, CA (Saturday, July 23, 2016 at 4:51 p.m.)—No inspection was conducted for the handicap parking spaces today. According to Dollar General District Manager Sal Trejo, the inspection should occur on Monday and he believes the store will open after the inspector’s approval.

UPDATE: FRAZIER PARK, CA (Saturday, July 23, 2016 at 8:35 a.m.)—Dollar General District Manager Sal Trejo said this morning there is a slight chance the Frazier Park store could open today if the local building inspector comes by to approve the revision to the handicap parking space. “Inside, we’re ready to open—but if the inspector doesn’t come today, then we’ll open on Monday,” the manager said this morning. Trejo said beer, wine and cigarette sales may begin in the coming week. He said there is a hearing on Tuesday in Bakersfield, that he will attend regarding those issues.

UPDATE: FRAZIER PARK, CA (Saturday, July 23, 2016 at 7 a.m.)—The popular sport of predicting when the Dollar General Store may open has gone through another change. An employee reports that the soft opening has been delayed due to the need for an adjusted handicap spot in the parking lot. Monday is said to be the new opening date. We’ll be checking with the manager and adding a confirmation shortly. Stay tuned!

FRAZIER PARK, CA (Friday, July 22, 2016 at 2:25 p.m.)—According to Dollar General District Manager Sal Trejo, he is fairly confident that the Frazier Park Dollar General store will open a day earlier than planned. Trejo believes his Frazier Park store will be open for business Saturday morning, July 23. The store’s regular hours of business are 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., 7 days per week. “The only day we’re not open is Christmas Day,” Trejo said this afternoon. They will have partial hours on some holidays.

Trejo was not certain that, on its first day, the store would open at 8 a.m. He was optimistic that it would open sometime in the morning. After Saturday, July 23 the store will continue its regular hours.

This is part of the July 22, 2016 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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