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Article: El Rey buys ex-Kohl's store
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- August 2, 2002
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El Rey buys ex-Kohl's store
Waukesha site may house Latino grocery or be leased to another
business
By RICK BARRETT of the Journal Sentinel staff
Friday, August 2, 2002
Waukesha -- The former Kohl's Food Emporium in downtown Waukesha
has been purchased by a Milwaukee-based grocery business that
specializes in Mexican foods and has its own tortilla factory.
El Rey Enterprises paid $700,000 for the former Kohl's store at
139 E. Broadway, according to city records. Closed more than a year,
the store has an assessed value of $1.1 million.
El Rey owns El Rey Mexican Products Inc., a popular Milwaukee
grocery chain with its main store at 1023 S. 16th St. The company
makes its own tortillas and ...