The Whole Foods in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood will close this fall when the natural-foods grocer’s opens near Union Station, a company spokeswoman confirmed Friday.
The closure was first reported Thursday by BusinessDen.
“Relocating to the new, larger Union Station store will allow us to provide a better shopping experience for our customers,” spokeswoman Betsy Harden said in an e-mail. “Team Members from the Capitol Hill store will automatically be transferred to Union Station.”
The Capitol Hill store, 900 E. 11th Ave., was that Austin-based Whole Foods kept open and switched to the Whole Foods banner after purchasing the Boulder-based grocer in 2007.
Smaller, older locations inherited through acquisition were the made earlier this month in an effort to better adapt to the changing food-retail market.
The new Union Station store at 17th and Wewatta streets will just off the station’s train platform.
The 56,000-square-foot store will offer expanded catering and delivery tailored to the downtown business community and a second-floor balcony overlooking the train station as well as unique programming that “fits in with that downtown nightlife lifestyle,” officials have said.
According to , multiple employees at the Capitol Hill location reported that the company mentioned the possibility of converting the old store into a , the grocer’s new smaller, lower-cost concept.
Harden said Friday that nothing has been announced about the future of the Capitol Hill building.
