In a major purchase, the grocery store chain Trader Joe’s has acquired a roughly 613,000 square foot industrial facility in metro Denver that will soon be used as the company’s new main distribution center for its Colorado market.
The facility is located at 6196 E. Bridge Street in Brighton, just over 20 miles to the northeast of Denver. Located on a nearly 42-acre site within the boundaries of the Bromley Business Park, the site also includes an additional ten acres for trailer stalls.
The Trader Joe’s purchase is only the latest move in an expanding map for the company that is seeing it build just over 40 new stores this year.
Based in Pasadena, California, Trader Joe’s was launched in 1958 and quickly attracted customers due to its affordable products. The company has also, notes the publication Forbes, embraced a “truck-to-shelf model, where inventory is not stored in the back, but goes directly to the shelves in order to keep it fresh.”
Last week Trader Joe’s said it plans to build another 7 stores, in addition to the roughly 40 it had announced earlier this year. Those new outlets will be in California, Connecticut, Florida, New York, Texas, South Carolina, and Washington.
The company currently has more than 600 stores, with facilities that generally measure anywhere from 10,000 square feet to 20,000 square feet. A Trader Joe’s in Manhattan measures some 12,500 square feet and is unusual in that that footage is spread over three floors.
The company opened its most recent Colorado store, this one in Westminster, in July. That location is one of eight stores the company operates in the Centennial State.
To date there are just over a dozen Trader Joe’s in Arizona, and two in New Mexico.
September 23, 2025
By Garry Boulard
