An Aldi supermarket might be coming to Maine.
The discount grocery chain, based in Germany, has signed a lease on a space in Portland’s Pine Tree Shopping Center that was formerly a Big Lots, the Portland Press Herald reported.
Big Lots closed last year during a nationwide wave of closures by the discount retailer. The space it vacated is 25,000 square feet, according to the Press Herald.
An Aldi store would be the first Maine branch of the chain, which has 2,466 locations in the U.S., including 22 in Massachusetts and nine in New Hampshire, though one of the two corporations that comprise Aldi’s multinational operations owns Trader Joe’s, which has a store in Portland.
Aldi also owns the southern U.S. grocery chain Winn-Dixie.
No details on a potential opening date in Portland were immediately available.
