Sprouts Farmers Market plans third Charlotte grocery store. It’s coming in 2025

Residents of NoDa, grab your reusable shopping bag because a new grocery store is coming to the neighborhood.

Sprouts Farmers Market will be opening in the summer of 2025 at the One NoDa Park development on the corner of 36th and Tryon streets, according to Tarlton Long, a principal with developer Avery Hall.

The announcement, first reported by Axios , satisfies a commitment Avery Hall made to the community when talks of the mixed-use development first began in 2021.

Sprouts will fill a void in the neighborhood’s grocery store options . A small grocer, Southland Supermarket, is near One NoDa, and on The Plaza there is a Food Lion and Giant Penny but that’s really it for the area.

“When purchasing the site in 2020, we recognized the need to bring a modern full-service grocer to a drastically underserved yet thriving neighborhood and made a commitment to serve that need at this key corner,” Long wrote in a news release.

This would be the Phoenix-based grocery chain’s third location in the Charlotte area .

It recently opened a location in Steele Creek and started with their first store in Ballantyne. Sprouts didn’t immediately respond to comment requests.

The NoDa location will be about 21,000 square feet, Long said.

Sprouts is known as a specialty healthy grocer and plans to have an array of fresh produce and other organic, plant-based or gluten-free products.

The One NoDa Park development is also nearing completion and is pre-leasing units for the fall, Long said. Construction started on the mixed-use project in 2022.

The six-floor site will host 383 apartments and other retail spaces.

More grocery growth around Charlotte

The Sprouts expansion adds to the competitive $10.2 billion market share in the Charlotte region.

There are 745 grocery stores in the region, up from 722 in 2020, according to sales tracking firm Chain Store Guide .

Here are other grocery store plans:

▪ This month, Matthews Board of Commissioners approved changes to a grocery store plan with signage in an illustration that looks a lot like Trader Joe’s. Town officials and the developer, as well as Trader Joe’s did not confirm which grocer plans to move into the 13,5000-square-foot stand-alone building at Matthews Gateway on East John Street.

▪ In May, Mecklenburg County commissioners approved $1.5 million for California-based grocer Spangler’s to build a 8,000-square-foot store at Kohler and Statesville avenues, north of uptown.

▪ In April, Rochester, N.Y.-based Wegmans confirmed it will make its Charlotte debut in two years with a 110,000-square-foot grocery store on the east side of Ballantyne in south Charlotte .

▪ In January, Winston-Salem-based grocer Lowes Foods opened a store on the southwest corner of Providence Road and Prescott Glenn Parkway at The Shops at Prescot Village. Lowes Foods plans to open three more shops in Concord, Kannapolis and Indian Land, S.C. The Concord store is expected to open in the fall, followed by the other sites over the next two years.

▪ Last year, Publix opened a 48,387-square-foot store at North Creek Village in Huntersville. The Florida-based grocer, with 26 stores in the Charlotte market, is planning to open at least six more stores.

A 48,000-square-foot Publix at Harris Farms Shopping Center , on the northwest corner of Coddle Creek Highway and Kistler Farm Road, in Mooresville, is expected to open this year. A 55,000-square-foot store with a drive-thru and a proposed private drive at 11525 Carmel Commons should open early next year.

Construction for The Arboretum store at Providence and Pineville-Matthews roads will start by the end of this year or early next year.

Publix also has plans for a store at the 10 Tryon building on the corner of Tryon and Ninth streets in uptown; Clear Creek Crossings development on the corner of Albemarle and Rocky River Church roads; and The Colony on the corner of Sharon and Colony roads in SouthPark. No openings have been set for those stores.

▪ The West Boulevard Coalition will open Charlotte’s first cooperative grocery store, Three Sisters Market . The full-service grocery store will debut in an area that’s been without a traditional supermarket for over 30 years. It’s expected to open next year.