Raleigh Gets Trader Joe’s
November 21st, 2007 Categories: Inside the Beltline, North Raleigh, Why Move to Raleigh?
Finally, clients relocating to Raleigh won’t have to give up their weekly trips to Trader Joe’s! It’s been rumored for months, but now it’s official. Trader Joe’s is opening a store in Raleigh. The specialty grocer has confirmed that it will open the Raleigh store in Holly Park shopping center, which is located on Wake Forest Road near I-440.
All the company is saying right now is that the store will be approximately 12,000 square feet and will open by 2009. I’m sure many of the loyal Trader Joe’s fans who have moved here from other parts of the country they served will be pleased when the store opens. I hope they hurry!
This will actually be the third Trader Joe’s location in the Triangle area. I think this says good things about our area! There is also a store in Cary and one in Chapel Hill. I personally don’t live close enough to the Cary location to make it a regular stop for day-to-day shopping, but the time or two that I have stopped in, I was quite impressed. The store was full of great foods, many of which cannot be found in the more traditional grocery store.
Trader Joe’s is regarded as an upscale grocer and this should be really good for the Holly Park shopping center. The strip style shopping center has languished for years without any big draw names. Trader Joe’s could change that. And it doesn’t hurt that the shopping center was purchased a few months ago by Lat Purser & Associates who has plans to give the center a much needed overhaul.
The renovated shopping center could easily serve home owners from Raleigh’s Inside the Beltline area and Midtown neighborhoods. Any comments from readers in cities where Trader Joe’s is located?
Trader Joe’s Rocks! I remember my first visit in the early 90’s in the Phoenix area. I was hooked. Glad to hear you will have one in Raleigh. –Paula
Hi Paula,
I’ve heard nothing but good things about Trader Joe’s. Much of what I’ve heard is from clients I’ve helped move to Raleigh who were going through withdrawals because we didn’t have one. Now they can get their Trader Joe’s fix!
Our 2nd Trader Joe’s opens in the greater Charlotte area next month…they have quit a following from our West Coast crowd… they are just moving into the Washington DC market as well. Terry McDonald
Trader Joes! We love it here. They have been here for a few years now and are doing well. You get trader joes- and we get Harris Teeter. We are all winners!
We just got a Trader Joe’s around the university area of Charlotte. It is a great store with a great selection of health/organic foods.