Crestline Piggly Wiggly opening delayed due to intentionally set fire

The Mountain Brook Police Department is asking for the public’s help in identifying four suspects believed to have intentionally set fire to the still-under-construction Crestline Piggly Wiggly.

During his Jemison Award acceptance speech at the Mountain Brook Chamber Luncheon Thursday, Jan. 14, Brassfield & Gorrie Chairman Miller Gorrie said the fire has put construction back by approximately a month. Gorrie’s firm heads up the project’s construction. Though the store was expected to open in April, Gorrie said that timeline is now unlikely. The fire he said, caused damage to the store’s light fixtures among other things.

“We will eventually get there,” he said.

According to surveillance footage shared on the Mountain Brook Police Department’s Facebook page, the fire appears to have been intentionally set on the evening of Monday, Jan. 11 around 9:25 p.m. Surveillance footage captures four suspects in the store’s vicinity and entering the building.

Anyone with information regarding the incident is asked to contact the Mountain Brook Police Department at 879-0486. Callers are asked to speak to a detective and can provide information anonymously.

The new, 28,250-square-foot urban-style store is located on Vine Street and is neighbors with the Crestline Elementary field and the Mountain Brook Board of Education building. The newly opened Smith’s Variety is also just across the alley. Owner Andy Virciglio shared details about the store in a previous interview with Village Living.