AUSTINTOWN TWP., Ohio - If you were wondering when, or if Meijer will ever build that promised store in Austintown, a township says plans are still on track for a store that will be larger than other Meijer stores being planned for the Valley.

Austintown Township Trustee Jim Davis said on Friday that plans to move a Meijer to the township are still in the works.

Speaking at the Youngstown-Warren Regional Chamber breakfast, Davis said the Meijer location in Austintown would be larger than the two other potential locations in the Valley, and would a prototype of sorts.

"We are actually very pleased to say that the Meijer store they are going to build in Austintown is going to be a 195,000 square foot prototype store,” said Davis. “It's going to be their top-notch facility, and they are doing that here in Austintown, whereas the other stores they are doing in Niles and Boardman are right around 110,000 to 120,000 square foot stores."

The store would be built on the site of the former Austintown Middle School on Mahoning Avenue. The school was demolished in 2017.

Township officials are still planning for an opening in 2021.

Meijer bills itself as a one-stop shopping supercenter.