One of the largest grocery store chains in the west is on the verge of building a handful of new locations in Colorado.
Plans have been announced for the Denver-based King Soopers company to develop a 123,000 square foot location inside the new RidgeGate master planned community in Lone Tree.
The store will serve as the anchor tenant for a shopping mall, which will house an additional 27,000 square feet of retail space.
The new Lone Tree location will add to the footprint for the Kroger Company-owned Soopers that includes around 120 stores in both Colorado and Wyoming.
Another location for the chain is currently under construction in the city of Thornton and expected to be completed later this year; with a 100,000 square foot location planned for the Nine Mile Corner mixed-use development in the city of Erie.
Several weeks ago, the Pikes Peak Regional Building Department announced that a building permit had been approved for the construction of a King Soopers store in the city of Falcon in the new Falcon Market Place.
Speculation has also centered around King Soopers building on the site of a former Kmart Plaza at 2535 S. College Avenue in Fort Collins. That project, which would see the construction of a 123,000 square foot store and fuel center with seven pumps, won the approval of the City of Fort Collins last year.
King Soopers stores have traditionally been located on the population-dense east side of Colorado. The company’s stores average in size between 65,000 to 75,000 square feet, with its larger marketplace format averaging some 124,000 square feet.
Founded in Arvada, Colorado in 1947, the chain was bought out by Kroger in 1982.
By Garry Boulard
