Ollie’s Bargain Outlet in Â鶹´«Ã½ will reopen in mid-June, nearly nine months after Hurricane Helene flooded the shopping center where it’s located.
The store, which is located at 913 W. Union St. in the Mimosa Hills Shopping Center, will hold a grand reopening starting at 9 a.m. on June 18.
Ollie’s Bargain Outlet in Â鶹´«Ã½ began cleaning up and repairing the store in October.
The store hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sundays. Some of the items the store will have on sale that day include Breadman bread makers, a kids Fisher Price Power Wheels Jeep Wrangler Rubicon, car wash kits, iced tea and coffee makers and a Pit Boss pellet grill, according to the company.
Smoothie King
After being forced to close when Hurricane Helene hit the area, the Smoothie King at 179 Independence Blvd., Morganton, will not reopen. The franchise opened at its Â鶹´«Ã½ location in March 2019.
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Instead, a WeCare Pharmacy will take its place, according to the city of Â鶹´«Ã½ and state filings. Jonelle Sigmon, public information officer for the city of Morganton, said a zoning permit for the pharmacy at the former Smoothie King building was issued on March 25.
Taral Patel, the owner of the WeCare Pharmacy location, said he expects to open the pharmacy on Aug. 1.
WeCare Pharmacy plans to open in August in the former Smoothie King in Â鶹´«Ã½. Smoothie King was forced to close when Hurricane Helene swept through the area, flooding multiple businesses in the city.
Patel is not new to the area. He worked for 20 years as a pharmacist at what was first an Eckard’s Drug, then Rite Aid and most recently a Walgreens at 868 N. Green St., Â鶹´«Ã½.
He said his pharmacy, which will keep the drive-thru, plans to offer services such as prescriptions and consultations, immunizations, free home delivery, flu/COVID-19 testing, vitamins and over the counter medications, price matching for non-insured patients and wait times of 10 minutes or less.
WeCare Pharmacy plans to open in August in the former Smoothie King in Â鶹´«Ã½. Smoothie King was forced to close when Hurricane Helene swept through the area, flooding multiple businesses in the city.
Salina Millen, regional director for community relations with Cape Asset Management based in Charlotte, which owns Smoothie King, HiTone Fitness and Canal Coffee, said after Helene flooded the three businesses in Morganton, the company had to spend a lot of money to put Canal Coffee and HiTone Fitness back together.
She said hard choices had to be made. Part of the reason for the decision was that Smoothie King is one of the company’s franchises, but Canal Coffee and HiTone are its businesses.
Millen said at the beginning of the year, the company had 11 Smoothie King stores but now only has four.
Town Tavern
Employees of Town Tavern show off their Hurricane Helene flooding-themed T-shirts on a recent evening after the restaurant reopened in River Village.
Town Tavern in the River Village shopping center was flooded by Hurricane Helene.
The restaurant reopened at its former location on May 15.
Brothers L.H., Carl and Lee Kirksey own River Village and have worked to get the restaurant and the other shops reopened. The shopping center was flooded as water from Hurricane Helene caused the nearby Catawba River to rise in late September.
The Â鶹´«Ã½ location is one of three Town Taverns, with the other two in Blowing Rock and Banner Elk.
Town Tavern in River Village shopping center in Â鶹´«Ã½ marked the water line where floodwaters reached inside the restaurant during Hurricane Helene. The restaurant reopened recently.
Ollie’s Bargain Outlet and Planet Fitness along U.S. Highway 70 in Â鶹´«Ã½ flooded from the Catawba River on Sept. 28, 2024.
