10-22-2013 10:45 PM

Gourmet grocer Lucky’s Market to anchor Forum shopping center


This photo shows a new Lucky's Market in Columbus, Ohio.




Lucky’s Market LLC, a growing Boulder, Colo., gourmet grocery chain, plans to open a 30,000-square-foot store at The Forum Center in the Hurstbourne Parkway corridor.
The chain, which currently has three stores and is expanding in the Midwest, specializes in natural and organic foods, locally grown produce, groceries and fresh meat and seafood, according to its website.
Lucky’s officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
But Richard Bell, co-managing partner of Atlanta-based Altus Real Estate Advisors LLC, compared the chain to Earth Fare Inc., an Asheville, N.C.-based company that opened one of its markets last year at The Summit.
Altus and Phoenix-based Arciterra Group LLC bought the Forum in late 2012 and have led an extensive renovation, rebranding and leasing effort at the nearly 140,000-square-foot center.
Lucky’s is scheduled to open at the Forum in April. It will be branded as Lucky’s Farmers Market in Louisville.
“We’re well under way” on the build-out of the store’s space, according to Bell. He said the grocery will have a “high-end” beer and wine section and outdoor seating.
Lucky’s currently has stores in Boulder and Longmont, Colo., and Columbus, Ohio, according to its website. In addition to the Louisville store, the chain plans locations in St. Louis and Columbia, Mo., and Billings, Mont.
Landing Lucky’s is one of several successes that the Altus-Arciterra partnership has had since taking over ownership of the Forum. It was half-empty when they bought it for just over $7 million from U.S. Bank N.A., of Irving, Texas.
An upscale French restaurant, Brasserie Provence, recently opened in space formerly occupied by a Tony Roma’s casual-dining restaurant.

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