{"id":1004091120,"date":"2014-02-11T06:43:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T14:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synd.yardi.com\/?p=238409"},"modified":"2020-05-18T13:26:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T21:26:49","slug":"whole-foods-market-opens-in-mid-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/whole-foods-market-opens-in-mid-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Whole Foods Market Opens in Mid-City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Eliza Theiss, Associate Editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/synd.yardi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/02\/Whole-Foods-Broad-Street-grand-opening.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-238411\" title=\"Whole Foods Broad Street grand opening\" src=\"https:\/\/synd.yardi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/02\/Whole-Foods-Broad-Street-grand-opening.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Whole Foods Market, the natural and organic food retailer, expanded its New Orleans presence by opening a location on the corner of Broad and Bienville streets. The 25,000-square-foot store represents a major step toward revitalizing the Broad Street corridor, as the company redeveloped a long-blighted property, once home to a Robert\u2019s Fresh Market and a Schwegmann\u2019s supermarket. The new store retains the original terrazzo floor and reuses lettering from the old store sign, reclaimed graffiti art and pallet wood as design features. Further eco-friendly features include electric vehicle charging and bike fix-it stations. The location will sell 330 local grocery products, as well as local art. Healthy eating classes and events will be hold both on-site and throughout the community.<\/p>\n<p>The $14 million grocery store has created 125 new full-time jobs, 74 percent of which are currently occupied by Orleans Parish residents. The city\u2019s JOB1 Business and Career Solutions and the Office of Workforce Development assisted the retailer with recruiting events, hiring and training services, in an effort to ensure that new employees were sourced from the local workforce pool.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/synd.yardi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/02\/Whole-Foods-Broad-Street1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-238414\" title=\"Whole Foods Broad Street\" src=\"https:\/\/synd.yardi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/02\/Whole-Foods-Broad-Street1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Whole Foods Broad Street is part of the 60,000-square-foot ReFresh project, which aims to be an economic and community anchor for the Broad Street neighborhoods, while also providing a high-quality fresh food source for a historically underserved area of the city. When completed, the mixed-use development will also house Liberty\u2019s Kitchen, Tulane University\u2019s Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine and FirstLine Schools, as well as the headquarters of Broad Community Connections, the developer of ReFresh. Not-for-profit Broad Community Connections is focused on revitalizing the Broad Street corridor, stretching from Tulane Avenue to Bayou Road.<\/p>\n<p>The new Whole Foods location and ReFresh are part of the New Orleans Fresh Food Retailer Initiative (FFRI), a $14 million program offering low-cost, flexible financing to retailers who renovate, expand or open stores that sell fresh groceries in the city\u2019s low-income food deserts. As such, ReFresh received a $1 million loan from the FFRI, half of which is forgivable, similar to the newly reopened landmark Circle Food Store in the Seventh Ward (more on that story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/cities\/new-orleans\/circle-food-store-magnolia-marketplace-to-curb-nolas-retail-shortage\/\" ><em>here<\/em><\/a>).  ReFresh also received a $900,000 award through the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority\u2019s (NORA) Commercial Corridor Revitalization Program.<\/p>\n<p>Whole Foods is celebrating the opening by donating 1 percent of its five-day New Orleans net sales to New Orleans nonprofits.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.multihousingnews.com\/market-data\/market-snapshot-2013-tightens-new-orleans-apartment-market-projects-rent-growth-for-2014\/1004097148.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" ><strong>Click here<\/strong><\/a> for further New Orleans market data.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Images courtesy of New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu\u2019s office.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whole Foods Market, the natural and organic food retailer, expanded its New Orleans presence by opening its location on the corner of Broad and Bienville streets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1599,21742],"tags":[1815,39456],"class_list":["post-1004091120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-orleans","category-latest","tag-national","tag-new-orleans"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - 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