Area's Largest Whole Foods To Open In Midtown Tampa July 7

TAMPA, FL — Whole Foods Market is opening a hyper-local flagship store at Midtown Tampa on July 7.

The grocery chain is planning to open a new 48,000-square-foot store at the intersection of Dale Mabry Highway and Midtown Drive, 3740 Midtown Drive. The new store will be the largest Whole Foods Market in the Tampa area, and will serve as a relocation of the current 32,000 square foot Tampa store at 1548 North Dale Mabry Highway, less than a mile away.

“Whole Foods Market has proudly served the Tampa community for many years,” said Juan Núñez, president of Whole Foods Market’s Florida Region. “We are excited to have the opportunity to bring a larger store to the area, allowing us to offer our customers even more ways to enjoy great food.”

Whole Foods Market Midtown Tampa will employ approximately 200 locally hired full- and part-time team members. Team members from the Tampa store will have the opportunity to transfer to the Midtown Tampa store as part of this relocation.Whole Foods Market Midtown Tampa will be located at 1001 North Dale Mabry Highway, less than one mile from the existing store located at 1548 North Dale Mabry Highway. The store is projected to open in fall of 2020. The Tampa store will close several days before the Midtown Tampa opening.

Features of the new Tampa Whole Foods store include:

• Full-service seafood counter featuring fresh and frozen seafood, in-house seasoned and marinated shrimp and salmon, with all offerings either sustainably wild-caught or responsibly farmed. Florida local options include red snapper and grouper and protein-rich snack bars from Miami-based FroPro.
• Extensive selection of nearly 200 beers, including options from St. Petersburg and Tampa local breweries like Green Bench Brewing Co. and Tampa Bay Brewing Co. Exclusive local beer offerings include 813 Midtown Hazy IPA from Coppertail Brewing and Hello Neighbor Key Lime IPA from Cigar City Brewing.
• Bakery department offering custom cakes and special diet options. Local selection includes tres leches cake from Momma’s Baked Goods and cookies from Cosa Duci Italian Bakery. The bakery will offer a new cake, “Sunset in Tampa,” inspired by the West Coast’s sunsets. The vanilla cake has bright orange marmalade with lemon curd in a tangy cream cheese frosting.
• Wellness and beauty section featuring products in the body care, supplement and home categories that include products from local suppliers like bulk soap from North Port’s Lolablue Living, Miami’s RSP Nutrition immunity and hydration shots, coconut oil from Tampa’s Conscious Coconut and candles from Sarasota’s Bia Candle Co.
• More than 800 local products from the state of Florida throughout the store from more than 160 local suppliers.

Whole Foods is the newest addition to the Midtown Tampa mixed-use community connecting the Westshore area to downtown Tampa. Midtown Tampa broke ground two years ago on 23 acres of underused commercial and office space off Dale Mabry Highway and Cypress Street.

When completed this year, the $500 million Midtown Tampa will consist of 11 buildings encompassing 1.8 million square feet of retail, residential, entertainment and hospitality, residential and office space.

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