By Ben Antonius | Daily Republic | June 14, 2008
The new BevMo store set to open located on Holiday lane in Fairfield. (DR Photos- Adam Smith) Photo by Adam Smith
FAIRFIELD - Two years after opening its first Solano County store in Vacaville, beverage retailer BevMo will soon open a Fairfield location.
BevMo takes over the location previous occupied by the Pier 1 Importers furniture store. The store closed in 2007. It was briefly replaced by the seasonal store Halloween World, but the location has otherwise been vacant.
BevMo has been looking at Fairfield for 'at least six months,' store manager Mike Jones said.
The company actually moved into the site and started setting up shop about five weeks ago, he said.
The store on Thursday was a beehive of activity, with tractor-trailers dropping off supplies and employees scrambling to get the shelves stocked. Near the front door sat 300 bottles of Michael Puzzlo wine.
BevMo will open Friday with plenty of fanfare. The company plans to hold wine tastings throughout the weekend with winemakers from a dozen vineyards paying a visit.
Among them will be Puzzlo and John and Lane Guigere from Matchbook Wines.
It will be BevMo's 85th store when it opens, said David Richards, executive vice president for the company. As part of an expansion effort, BevMo plans to open 20 stores in 2008, he said.
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