Specialty grocer continues expansion in area with three new locations

Sprouts Farmers Market to open stores in New Tampa, Westchase and Tampa Heights.

By Business Observer Staff
| 11:27 a.m. August 3, 2020
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Courtesy. With three new stores in the works, Sprouts Farmers Market is set to expand again in the Tampa Bay region.

Tampa Bay-Lakeland

TAMPA — Sprouts Farmers Market, a Phoenix-based chain of specialty grocery stores, plans to open a new store in New Tampa on Aug. 12, followed by another expansion, in Westchase, in October.

According to a press release, the company has also secured a site in the new Tampa Heights development, north of downtown Tampa, and will open a store there in 2021.

The 30,000-square-foot New Tampa store will be at 8620 Hunter Village Road. The Westchase store, scheduled to open on Oct. 28, will be at 10619 Sheldon Road; it will create approximately 110 jobs.

Sprouts, which first entered the Florida market in 2017 and now has 19 stores in the state, is accepting job applications for its new locations at sprouts.com/careers.