Along with today’s influx of grocery retail options has been a recent movement toward using grocers to anchor residential projects — with cities, grocery stores and construction firms taking advantage of the trend.
Balfour Beatty is currently underway with a luxury residential mixed-use development in downtown Atlanta and signed a deal earlier this month with developer The Related Group to also build out a multi-story, 72,000-square-foot Whole Foods store as the complex’s anchor.
To say the project isn't an average supermarket is an understatement. In addition to the standard organic supermarket fare, the store will also offer a 5,000-square-foot pub, a 4,000-square-foot cooking school, a food delivery service, green walls and an outdoor dining area in an attempt to create a place that people want to visit socially.
(more on grocers’ involvment in residential development . . . )
