Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, January 11, 1995                   TAG: 9501110066
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: B-8   EDITION: METRO 
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IN BUSINESS

Mill Mountain Coffee & Tea will open a new store in Salem by the end of this week. Scott Freday, manager of the company's downtown Roanoke outlet, said the new coffee shop at 17 E. Main St. could open as early as today but more likely would be in business later in the week.

This will be the third location for Mill Mountain Coffee & Tea, which has stores on the Roanoke City Market and in Blacksburg.

Freday said the owners of the shops also operate Shockoe Expresso and Roastery in Richmond.

- Staff repor

Grand Piano to add furniture outlet

The Grand Piano & Furniture Co. store at 35 Campbell Ave. in downtown Roanoke will become Grand's Furniture and Outlet Center on Friday .

The revamped store will feature the company's regular merchandise on two floors and special purchase and clearance items on two other floors, said Bob Carroll, senior vice president in charge of merchandise.

The company will continue to offer free delivery on the regular items in the store, but will charge to deliver the special purchase and clearance merchandise, he said.

Grand, which has 21 stores in four states, will use the Roanoke store as an outlet for final-sale items from its other stores.

Next month, the Roanoke-based company will have a grand opening at its Grand Interiors store, which has been remodeled as part of an expansion of Grand Pavilion shopping center on Virginia 419.

The expansion includes space for the company's corporate offices, which are moving from downtown Roanoke to the Virginia 419 shopping center, which the company owns. That move is scheduled for spring.

- Staff report

Briefly ...

The Kroger Co., Cincinnati-based supermarket chain with regional marketing operations and stores in Western Virginia, said Tuesday it will close its leased Shiloh Distribution Center in Jackson, Tenn., and consolidate its operations with a company-owned facility in Cleveland, Tenn. The move, to be completed in early 1996, will mean the loss of 60 jobs.

Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp., Louisville, Ky., parent of Lewis-Gale Hospital in Salem, said Tuesday it has agreed to acquire three hospitals in the metropolitan Chicago area: La Grange Memorial Hospital, Chicago Osteopathic Hospital and Medical Center, and Olympia Fields Osteopathic Hospital and Medical Center. The facilities have a total of 749 patient beds. Terms of the transactions were not disclosed. Columbia is the nation's largest health care services provider, with 199 hospitals and 128 outpatient surgery centers in 34 states, England and Switzerland.