Grocery chain buys $2.9M site, plans expansion

PALMETTO — Sarasota-based Detwiler's Farm Market purchased a retail property in Palmetto for just over $2.9 million.

According to a press release, MSC Commercial, a division of Sarasota-based real estate firm Michael Saunders & Co. closed the sale. Agents Steve Larkin and Susan Goldstein represented Detwiler's.

The site is eight acres and has more than 50,000 square feet of commercial space. The store will be Detwiler's fourth store on the Gulf Coast and will mark the company's entry into Manatee County and Palmetto. The Palmetto store will be its largest. It will employ more than 100 people.