Knoxville residents will soon have another place to shop as KNIA/KRLS News has confirmed construction for a Dollar Tree store will begin this spring.

Recently, soil work has begun on the lot north of Walmart. According to Dustin Whitehead, Director of Sales & Leasing in the Midwest for Lockard Development, Inc., the construction of the new Dollar Tree store will begin this spring with construction expected to be complete by mid-summer of 2018. Whitehead says once work is finished, the building will be handed over to Dollar Tree and he expects the store to open in the late summer or early fall of 2018.