Whole Foods Expands In FL With 5 New Stores Planned

Whole Foods is expanding in Florida, with five new stores in various stages of development, the store told the USA Today Network ahead of the May 21 opening of a Jacksonville location, according to the Ocala StarBanner.

The high-end grocer has stores planned in Sarasota — the city’s third Whole Foods — Bradenton, Valrico and Doral. There is no opening timeline for these stores.

The more than 38,000-square-foot Jacksonville store at 1 Riverside Ave. is Florida’s 38th Whole Foods.

The store design’s "vertical wooden slat walls pay an homage to the vertical lines of the Florida Times-Union newspaper building that once sat on the store’s site,” the grocery chain said.

In Sarasota, Whole Foods was one of the first tenants to sign a lease as part of the mixed-use redevelopment of the Sarasota Square Mall site at the intersection of S. Beneva Road and Tamiami Trail, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reported.

The city’s two existing Whole Foods locations are downtown at 1451 1st Street and in the University Town Center area at 5298 University Parkway.

The Bradenton location is planned for the Market Place at Heritage Harbour Shopping Center, just a mile from Lakewood Ranch, Patch previously reported.

The shopping center is currently home to Costco. A 150,000-square-foot target is also planned there.

The Valrico Whole Foods will open in the Lithia Crossing plaza, located on Lithia Pinecrest Road, south of Bloomingdale Avenue, the Osprey Observer said.

In South Florida, Whole Foods is anchoring the Doral Marketplace shopping center on the southwest corner of NW 41st Street and NW 107th Avenue, according to BLDUP.

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