Plans are in the works for Austin Texas-based Whole Foods Market, Inc. to move into Chamblee. An area filled with new projects and lots of space north of Peachtree, the City of Chamblee continues to grow.
The giant grocery chain will build a new store on Peachtree Crossing; an 11-acre redevelopment of the old Oxford Chemical site at Johnson Ferry Road and Peachtree Boulevard in Chamblee.
Whole Foods, which gained unwanted notoriety last month in a snafu with New York retailers; is trying to separate itself from similar organic grocery retailers by opening new stores across the U.S. The company has several projects in the works for Atlanta.
Already open in Alpharetta, its part of Avalon, a development at Georgia 400 and Old Milton Parkway.
Whole Foods has also been negotiating for a new store in Midtown, where it could become part of Related Group’s 2-acre high-rise development at 14th Street and West Peachtree. The closest grocery to that location is Publix, ten blocks away in the Georgia Tech Square area.
The company is also scouting for another store in Decatur and possibly the Cumberland Galleria area, according to company collateral.
Metro Atlanta developer S.J. Collins Enterprises will be building the Peachtree Crossing project.
The current plan is to have the Whole Foods Chamblee store opened by 2017.
-- -Ray Macon
Photos courtesy Whole Foods Inc.
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