Do you like to shop at grocery stores that are visible from space? Well, you're in luck. Kroger is building gigantic new stores all over Athens.

Kroger has already expanded its Alps Road store and is building a new 123,000 square foot store on Highway 29 near Madison County. Now, it's filed plans to replace its store at the corner of Barnett Shoals and College Station roads with one that's twice as large.

Plans call for tearing down the vacant K-Mart, building a new 106,000 square foot Kroger and a gas station, renovating the remaining stores and reconfiguring the parking lot. It's not clear what will happen to the current Kroger space, and Athens-Clarke County planners weren't available for comment late this afternoon.

The Planning Commission will review the plans at its Thursday, July 8 meeting.