United Family of stores officials announced Tuesday it will invest more than $100 million in Lubbock with new stores and remodels of seven of its nine stores in the Hub City.

United officials held a news conference at its distribution center located at 5801 Martin Luther King Blvd., where several city and county officials and Lubbock economic leaders praised the company's investment in the Hub City.

Renovations of the seven stores are scheduled to begin immediately and be completed in the fall. The remodel project is planned to begin at the United Supermarkets located at 82nd Street and Boston Avenue.

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