$1B South Carolina Mixed-Use Project Lands Whole Foods Anchor

Entire Meals at Greenville County Sq. Redevelopment. Picture courtesy of RocaPoint Companions

RocaPoint Companions, grasp developer of the $1 billion Greenville County Sq. Redevelopment in Greenville, S.C., has signed a well-liked grocery chain to function an anchor. Entire Meals Market dedicated to an area on the tenant roster on the 3.5 million-square-foot, live-work-play vacation spot.

Entire Meals might be a focus of the retail choices at County Sq., a walkability-centric challenge that may rework a 37-acre underutilized web site in downtown Greenville. The favored pure and natural meals retailer will occupy a stand-alone facility on the property. MV+A Architects, a go-to design agency for Entire Meals, is behind the imaginative and prescient for the shop.

RocaPoint hasn’t shared a gap date for Entire Meals at County Sq.—which, along with retail, will characteristic workplace area, accommodations, residential items and leisure choices. The redevelopment is a multi-phase endeavor that might be executed over a years-long interval.

Yenser Co.’s Steve Yenser represented RocaPoint within the lease transaction, whereas Scott Adams and George Wilson of Adams and Wilson stood in for Entire Meals.

The grocery-anchor impact

In a ready assertion, Patrick Leonard, principal with RocaPoint Companions, remarked that Entire Meals stands for the standard of the tenants the developer is concentrating on. Analysis signifies that the connoisseur grocer is prone to show a robust magnet for the retailers RocaPoint endeavors to entice.

“Grocers entice extra foot site visitors than another sort of retailer, which emboldens different retailers to pay a premium for storefronts inside the similar heart,” in response to a 2023 report by CBRE. “Total, grocery-anchored retail facilities will seemingly proceed to fare nicely and draw continued curiosity from buyers and different retailers drawn to excessive foot site visitors.”

Past County Sq., the natural meals chain is in enlargement mode. Throughout Entire Meals’ first city corridor assembly of 2023, the corporate revealed its 10-year development technique, which requires including new shops throughout the U.S. in addition to in Canada and within the U.Okay. Eventually depend in January 2023, Entire Meals boasted a complete of 546 places worldwide.