The store is scheduled to open in 2018.
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The supermarket chain said it has "executed a lease" on a location at what will be North River Village. In a followup Thursday, the company said the location is pending rezoning.
The store will be approximately 45,000 square feet and will employ about 140 people.
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The closest current Publix stores to Durham are two locations in Cary, one at 1020 Bradford Plaza Way and the other at 3480 Kildaire Farm Road.
Publix has a third location in the Triangle in Wake Forest, at 1030 Forestville Road.
Publix was founded in 1930 in Winter Haven, Florida and is now the largest employee-owned grocery chain in the United States.