Lucky’s closures could impact neighbors

BOULDER and LONGMONT — It isn’t just the employees and customers of Lucky’s Market who are left in the lurch when the grocery store locations close, as is the case at dozens of Lucky’s stores around the country. Businesses that share shopping center space also suffer when anchor tenants go belly up.

“As one could imagine, [the Lucky’s closure] will likely have a pretty negative impact in the short term for the other tenants in the shopping center while the landlord regroups and finds a replacement anchor,” Geoffrey Keys, president of Keys Commercial Real Estate in Boulder,…