Union Kitchen’s Grocery Store Ambitions Kick-start DC Industrial

Union Kitchen’s Capitol Hill grocery store

WASHINGTON, DC–Local food incubator Union Kitchen’s ambitions have spread far beyond its startup roots.  The company has opened one grocery store in Capitol Hill and plans to open another near the Convention Center within three to four months, co-founder Cullen Gilchrist tells GlobeSt.com. Within the next five years, he hopes to see another five stores open at various points around the city.

In terms of retail space, these plans don’t even qualify as the proverbial drop in the bucket. The Capitol Hill store is about 1,000 square feet although Gilchrist does expect to see the future grocery stores expand to about 3,000 square feet.