Boulder-based Lucky’s Market set to open in Orlando in June
NIWOT — Lucky’s Market is about to grow its footprint in Florida by opening a store in Orlando next month, as the Niwot-based grocer with the “Organic for the 99%” tagline continues its push to expand.
The 35,000-square-foot store, the chain’s 18th location nationwide, is slated to open June 22 with a “bacon cutting” ceremony at 11750 E. Colonial Drive in the Alafaya Village shopping center in Orlando. Lucky’s already has a location in Gainesville, Fla. — its largest, at 40,000 square feet, as well as locations in Naples and Coral Springs. Other stores are planned in Neptune Beach, Plantation, Melbourne and Tallahassee and should open by the end of the year or early 2017, said Ben Friedland, Lucky’s vice president for marketing.
Founded by Bo Sharon and his wife, Trish, in 2003, Lucky’s still operates its original market in north Boulder as well as one in south Longmont, and will open a 32,000-square-foot market at a former Savers site at 695 S. Broadway in Boulder in mid- to late July.
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It also has expanded to sites in Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Ohio and Wyoming. Friedland said the stores being built in Florida, as well as one set to open soon in Traverse City, Mich., were planned before Lucky’s formed a “strategic partnership” with grocery giant Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR), the Cincinnati-based parent of King Soopers and City Market stores in Colorado. When that partnership was announced April 1, Lucky’s officials said one of its advantages would be to help the chain expand.
“We’re still in a learning phase with our counterparts at Kroger about how we can help each other,” Friedland said.
