It’s been years in the making, but the first Amazon Fresh grocery store in Macomb County is scheduled to open this fall, according to a published report.

Crain’s Detroit Business reports bid documents they’ve obtained show interior buildout for stores in Shelby Township and Troy is expected to begin in late March, with the openings scheduled for around Oct. 1.

The Shelby Township location is a former Gander Mountain store at 13975 Hall Road in the Hall Road Crossing shopping center. In Troy, the store is on Big Beaver Road in the Troy Marketplace shopping center where a former indoor trampoline park location that closed during the pandemic was located.

Amazon Fresh would not confirm or deny the opening dates.

“We’ll continue to open new Whole Foods Market stores, and will do so selectively with Amazon Fresh as we see results we like,” the company said in a statement to Crain’s.

Amazon Fresh, an offshoot of the world’s largest online retail, is a grocery delivery service available to Amazon Prime members in major cities throughout the United States. Members receive free two-hour grocery delivery on Amazon Fresh orders that meet the minimum purchase threshold. It also offers brick-and-mortar grocery stores.

The contractor documents mark the first sign of life locally for Amazon Fresh, which started building out no fewer than 10 locations in metro Detroit in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic but has yet to open a single location here.

Staff with Troy-based general contractor C.E. Gleeson Constructors Inc. confirmed the authenticity of the documents, which were posted to Construct Connect, a website for contractors around the country to bid on jobs.

The Shelby Township one is 35,500 square feet, according to the bid documents, while the Troy location is 39,500 square feet.

Other shops in the Shelby Township location include Claire’s, Skechers, Ulta Beauty, Rally House, Lady Jane’s Haircuts for Men, Michael’s Custom Framing and a Chick-fil-A restaurant.

Crain’s says Amazon Fresh is the Seattle-based e-commerce giant’s attempt to infiltrate the budget grocery store space, competing with the likes of Walmart and Aldi — has so far been not a bang but a whimper in terms of its rollout in Southeast Michigan.

Two of the 10 anticipated Amazon Fresh locations were put up for sublease in 2023, and one of those — the Madison Heights store — is being filled up with another tenant, an Asian grocery store. The Dearborn location also was put up for sublease.

Other locations are in Rochester Hills, Livonia, St. Clair Shores, Grand Blanc and Roseville.

The Roseville property is owned by an entity called Roseville South LLC, which lists the resident agent as Nikolaos Moschouris in Royal Oak. Roseville property records show the entity paid another entity connected to New Jersey-based Toys ‘R’ Us $1.8 million for the property in June 2021.

Moschouris is also the owner of the former Gander Mountain outdoor store in Shelby Township that is also being turned into an Amazon Fresh.