Big changes are coming to the south side of Murfreesboro. The extension of the Joe B. Jackson Parkway is on the drawing board for the immediate future and plans of a Walmart are still on go. Construction of the new retail store on South Church Street at County Farm Road, which is the Joe B. Jackson Parkway, will likely coincide with one another. City Manager Rob Lyons told WGNS several weeks ago…

If the project is complete in two years that means Walmart and the extended Joe B. Jackson Parkway will open in 2015. That’s not the only thing new to South Church Street… A Price Less IGA Grocery Store will soon open in the old Food Lion location and we are told the Kroger Store across from Indian Hills Golf Course will likely expand to include merchandise similar to what Walmart offers. A Goodwill store is also in the forecast for the south side.

The Joe B. Jackson extension will cost a little over $10-million.