Whole Foods Market Englewood

CTL-E-1001 · Institution · other · unspecified

Verified evidence grade of this record

Opened September 28, 2016; closed November 14, 2022 after six years. Company cited insufficient 'performance and growth potential.' City spent $10.7M preparing the site, sold it to DL3 for $1, with a full-service-grocer requirement through November 2027.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from PLACE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-PLACE-001:PLACE-091; source research type(s): commercial anchor. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

https://www.governing.com/assessments/is-there-a-place-for-supermarket-socialism; https://cegu.uchicago.edu/2024/12/06/whole-foods-experiment-63rd/

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