Sprouts confirms 2016 opening in Clovis
Sprouts Farmers Market officially announced Monday it plans to open a Clovis store.
The Bee first reported plans to open the grocery store in a former Save Mart at the Trading Post Shopping Center at Clovis and Herndon avenues in May.
The specialty grocery store with a focus on natural and organic food plans to open 27 new stores next year. Each will employ about 100 people.
The company declined to give a specific opening date, saying only that the store will open within the first three months of 2016.
The Trading Post, which will also be home to a Pieology, a Ross and a Skechers shoe store, has a new owner who is revamping the center. Work already has started with the removal of mature trees – which are being replaced – inspiring a backlash in June.
Sprouts has a store at Blackstone and Alluvial in Fresno that opened in May 2013.
Bethany Clough: 559-441-6431, @BethanyClough
This story was originally published October 5, 2015 at 1:47 PM with the headline "Sprouts confirms 2016 opening in Clovis."