Family Dollar in Monongah: Mirage or reality?

Mayor Greg Vandetta, who has been waiting for this day more fervently than anyone, says the empty Huntington Bank Building at Camden Avenue and Walnut Street may be razed in early August.

Writes His Honor:

“If anyone wants to get pictures of the empty Huntington Bank Building, you better get them real soon.”

Monongah has been waiting more than three years for this to happen. The planned Family Dollar store is taking longer than a 1-legged chicken trying to hop from Matewan to Monongah.

The site is where the Pulice, Fiori and Gumont families took turns living before the home was torn down to make way for the bank.

Family Dollar was acquired by Dollar Tree, but will keep the Family Dollar name, at least for now.

Dollar Tree, whose headquarters is in Chesapeake, Virginia, has 4,900 stores. Family Dollar, based in Matthews, North Carolina, had 1,400 stores. Dollar General, out of Goodlettsville, Tennessee, has more than 10,000 stores.

There are Family Dollar stores at Fairhills Plaza, 609 Bellview Boulevard, Fairmont; 917 E. Park Avenue, Fairmont; and 204 S. Pike Street, Shinnston.