Sprouts Grocery Store Opening In Bradenton This Week

BRADENTON, FL — A Sprouts grocery store is opening in Bradenton this week, according to the company’s website.

The new location at 1149 Cortez Road, near the U.S. Highway 41 intersection, will open on Friday at 7 a.m.

This will be the first Sprouts in Manatee County and the second location in the greater Sarasota-Bradenton area. The first store in the region is located in Sarasota’s Pelican Plaza at 8330 S. Tamiami Trail.

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A ribbon cutting will take place Friday at 6:45 a.m., the company said. The first 200 in-store shoppers on Friday and Saturday will receive a free reusable bag filled with samples.

Vendors offering new product tastings and samples will also be set up Friday through Sunday. There will also be children’s activities, including fruit carvings and a face painter.

Sprouts is the latest grocer to announce new stores in Manatee County, which has seen significant population growth in recent years. From April 1, 2020, to July 1, 2022, the county saw a 7.4 percent increase in residents with 429,000 people calling Manatee home, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Trader Joe’s will open its first store in the county and second in the Sarasota-Manatee region at 8473 Cooper Creek Blvd. in the University Park area.

Sarasota-based Detwiler’s Farm Market will expand into West Bradenton with its sixth location in the region. The grocer announced in February that it signed a lease for the 49,000-square-foot anchor space in the Marketplace West shopping center at the corner of 53rd Avenue and 34th Street.

And a second Aldi supermarket is coming to Lakewood Ranch, the Bradenton Herald reported. It will be located in the Manatee County side of the area on Crossland Trail, north of State Road 70 and east of Lakewood Ranch Boulevard.