Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op planning move

The Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op may be changing locations. The store recently revealed plans to relocate to a parcel of land on 28th and R streets next to Revolution Wines and Temple Coffee. It would come replete with plenty of parking (taking over the lot of the nearby Department of Human Assistance) and building a four-level parking garage.

It projects a June 2014 opening of a store with 22,000 square feet of space and 15,000 additional square feet of mezzanine level. This is, of course, assuming that financial and board matters all go according to plan.

Is this move necessary? Many Co-op shoppers feel that’s it’s the right move and have been wanting to expand the store and reinvest in it in order to bring in more and new customers. Yet I wonder if it can—to use co-op terminology—sustain itself at that size? No doubt we’ll find out, and I hope so, as the Sac Co-op is an institution to the local-food scene, and with the increased size, could come a number of new services to draw people in.