Miesse Candies opened a new retail shop at Kendig Square shopping center July 4.

The 1,200-square-foot store, next to Wasabi Japanese Restaurant, sells the full line of Miesse Candies and also offers hand-dipped Turkey Hill ice cream.

The new Miesse store is slightly larger than the one in the Lancaster Shopping Center, Miesse co-owner Chad Walton said.

Store hours: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Also, within the next couple of weeks Walton said Miesse will be moving its small stand along the south wall of Central Market to a new spot near the east wall of the market, across from S. Clyde Weaver's.

A Lancaster candy-making company, Miesse had its city factory destroyed by a fire in March 2006. The factory reopened a year later, but in the meantime, the Miesse store on Queen Street had closed.


Just Press Play, again


Also at Kendig, Just Press Play, a video game, movie and CD store that specializes in retro games, will open a new store in September.

Just Press Play buys, sells and trades used video games, movies and music CDs. It also sells new games.

At just under 2,400 square feet, the new Kendig store will be twice as big as one now operating in the Village Center in Mountville, 119 Oakridge Drive, just off Route 462.

Owner Zachariah Gieg said the new store will have several televisions where customers can try out games.


Grocer delayed


Kimberton Whole Foods, which had expected to open a 5,000-square-foot store this summer at College Row, has delayed its plans.

Julia Greenblatt, a spokeswoman for the specialty food store, said it still intends to open at Franklin & Marshall College's retail strip along Harrisburg Pike, but adds: "it is not happening when we thought."

Greenblatt said the grocer, which has stores in Downingtown, Douglassville and Kimberton, is now focused on opening a store in Ottsville, Bucks County.

Kimberton Whole Foods doesn't have a signed lease, but is in "late-stage negotiations," according to a spokeswoman for Campus Apartments Inc., the developer of College Row.


Golf at Golden


A Golf Etc. store opened late last month at 1264 Lititz Pike in the Golden Triangle Shopping Center.

The roughly 3,200-square-foot store sells golfing equipment, apparel and gifts and also offers repairs, lessons and swing evaluations. Owners are Bob and Julie Backes.

Hours: 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Golf Etc. is a national franchise with 68 stores in 22 states, one in Canada and two in Puerto Rico.


Starbucks plans brewing


While more than 600 Starbucks around the country will soon close, plans continue for a new Starbucks at Rockvale Outlets.

Last week, East Lampeter Township supervisors approved, with minor conditions, the proposal for a new Starbucks behind the Burger King along South Willowdale Drive.

Plans filed with the township describe an addition to the former Susquehanna Bank, resulting in a restaurant with seating for around 50.

Susquehanna Bank opened Monday in a new building at Rockvale, next to Olive Garden.

Last week, Starbucks listed the locations around the country it plans to close. None of Lancaster's five Starbucks were on the list.


Forever at Park City


Forever 21, which sells inexpensive, trendy clothes for young men and women, will open in late August in the Bon-Ton Wing at Park City Center.


Staff writer Chad Umble can be reached at cumble@LNPnews.com or 481-6031. What's In Store, a roundup of Lancaster County retail news, runs every other Wednesday in the New Era.