Bill Croyle punches through windows of the old Viola's Market on Main St. in Evans City Monday. The old building, under new ownership, will become an Ace Hardware. The store is expected to open in March.

It's no grocery store, but something is finally moving into the old Viola's Market in Evans City.

Cherie Deener, borough council president, said a developer appeared before council at its agenda-planning meeting in mid-December to update them on what the plans were for the former grocery store.

Soon, an Ace Hardware will call the building home. It'll be a different purpose for the building, and the building will even take on a different facade.

“There was a whole bunch of Amish men here, and the whole front has been ripped off and the windows taken out,” Deener said. “When it was all tore off, it really looked big in comparison to the blue that was up there.”

Read more in Sunday's Butler Eagle.