As grocery stores continue to open and remodel, Whole Foods Market is renovating its Mandarin Landing location at a job cost of $216,422.
O’Barr Construction LLC of Bowie, Maryland, is the contractor for the project, which relocates the coffee service from the center store into a department.
SBLM Architects of Fort Lauderdale is the architect.
The city issued a permit July 22 for the store at 10601 San Jose Blvd.
It is the oldest and largest of Austin, Texas-based Whole Foods’ stores in the area.
Whole Foods opened the 51,701-square-foot Mandarin store in 2008.
The natural and organics food chain opened its 40,000-square-foot Jacksonville Beach store in October 2020 at 2050 S. Third St. in the Pablo Plaza shopping center.
It plans a 43,000-square-foot store at One Riverside Jacksonville, the retail center that, along with apartments, restaurants and a park, will be developed at the site where The Florida Times-Union campus is being demolished in the Brooklyn area of Downtown.
Publix Super Markets Inc., Southeastern Grocers and Walmart Inc. are among the companies that have been adding or renovating stores to meet market demands and compete in the industry.
Whole Foods Market says it has more than 500 retail and nonretail locations in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
Amazon.com paid $13.7 billion in cash for Whole Foods in 2017.