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    Home»City of Eden Prairie»New, unnamed grocery store OK’d by city council
    City of Eden Prairie

    New, unnamed grocery store OK’d by city council

    By Mark WeberOctober 27, 2021Updated:October 27, 20212 Mins Read
    Above are drawings of the grocery store that Oppidan Investment Co. is planning to build southwest of the intersection of Flying Cloud Drive and Prairie Center Drive, not far from Eden Prairie Shopping Center.

    Plans for a 40,000-square-foot grocery store whose owner is being kept secret were unanimously approved Tuesday, Oct. 27, by the Eden Prairie City Council.

    While the schematic drawings for what’s being called “Flying Cloud Commons Grocery Store” show a building façade similar to those used for new Amazon Fresh grocery stores across the country, the developer on Tuesday said a non-disclosure agreement prevented him from identifying the tenant.

    Toronto-based NORR, listed as architect for the Eden Prairie project, has been linked to other Amazon Fresh projects nationwide. But the store’s name is being withheld – even to city officials, at this point.

    What is known is that the grocery store is different than the Lakewinds Food Co-op that had been expected to be built on the site, which is southwest of the busy, highly visible intersection of Flying Cloud Drive and Prairie Center Drive.

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    The 2020 plan for a 25,000-square-foot Lakewinds grocery store failed to materialize, and so the revised plan for a larger store means that a possible future restaurant and a coffee shop – conceptually proposed in the earlier plan – will also not be built.

    In the end, the development being managed by Excelsior-based Oppidan Investment Co. is expected to contain the nearby Chick-fil-A restaurant and Bank of America branch already approved by the city, as well as the 40,000-square-foot grocery store. The retail project is next door to Presbyterian Homes’ new Flagstone residential project.

    Among Eden Prairie grocery stores, the unnamed store would be similar in square footage to Jerry’s Foods (41,000 square feet, according to city staff), smaller than both Cub Foods (92,000 square feet) and Lunds & Byerlys (59,000 square feet), but bigger than ALDI (25,000 square feet).

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