"We are delighted that Sunflower Market has decided to serve the North Denver community from the Highlands Garden Village site," says Chuck Perry, developer of HGV.
The store at HGV will be Sunflower Market's third location in Colorado and 12th nationwide. The company's Colorado stores are on South Colorado Boulevard in Denver and in Fort Collins. It also operates in Arizona, Albuquerque and Las Vegas.
"The HGV store is part of our expansion plans and an ideal location for us," says Bennett Bertoli, vice president and an owner of Sunflower. "The Highlands is a great neighborhood. We think that our concept will be well received by this community."
Mike Gilliland, Libby Cook, Bennett Bertoli and Pat Gilliland, all of whom were Wild Oats founders, started Denver-based Sunflower Market in 2002. The first store in Albuquerque was so successful that the company has continued to expand and plans to add three to four new locations each year.
The store is expected to open in 2006 after the building receives design review approval from the Denver Planning Board. Prior to approval, the Denver Planning Department will submit plans to theHGV Design Review Committee and neighborhood organizations identified by the PUD for public comment. This includes neighborhood associations within 200 feet of the development.
Pat McHenry of Trammel Crow represented the HGV Land Co. in thetransaction. She also is responsible for leasing additional retail space at the site.
Perry says that he is committed to designing a building that will work well within the community and is consistent with the PUD and the Highlands Garden Village Design Guidelines. He said that it willbe built with environmentally friendly products, recycled materialsand include systems that conserve energy. Sunflower Market is interested in opening its new store as quickly as possible to serve a community that does not have a comparable option in the neighborhood.
Highlands' Garden Village is a 27-acre New Urbanism-award winning,mixed-use, mixed-income garden village in northwest Denver. It consists of environmentally responsible single-family homes, townhouses, market-rate and affordable senior and multifamily apartments, cohousing, office and retail spaces, within a pedestrian friendly fabric of gardens, parks and walkways. The project is being developed by Perry Rose LLC, a Jonathan Rose Co. that was founded in Denver 1994.
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