Posted Nov 28, 2013, 2:20 AM
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Update on the suburban Whole Foods going up in Okemos:
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Whole Foods store advances in Meridian Township
By Lindsay VanHulle | Lansing State Journal
November 26, 2013
MERIDIAN TWP. — Plans for a Whole Foods Market in Meridian Township could be decided within two weeks.
The natural and organic foods grocery chain locked up unanimous support Monday from the township’s planning commission, meaning it’ll be sent to the full township board for final approval in early December.
“We’re trying to get them through,” said Peter Menser, an associate planner for the township.
Austin, Texas-based Whole Foods plans a 35,000-square-foot store on roughly five acres of land on East Grand River Avenue, near the border with East Lansing. The company would hire 150 people by the time it opens in 2015.
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Whole Foods will sit on property that includes the former home of the Velocipede Peddler bicycle shop, which has relocated to the west inside the Brookfield Plaza shopping center at Hagadorn Road and Grand River. Developer George Tesseris also plans to dismantle the mostly-vacant Mobile Home Manor mobile home park as part of the project.
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