King Soopers has taken a major step forward on its plans to build a massive store in the new Falcon Marketplace shopping center just outside Colorado Springs, which it now expects to open in about a year.
The supermarket chain, part of Cincinnati-based Kroger and a dominant player in the Pikes Peak region’s grocery wars, last month tookout a building permit for construction of a $13 million, 123,000-square-foot store that would anchor Falcon Marketplace, according to Pikes Peak Regional Building Department records…