PCC To Open Bellevue Store, The Grocer's 4th On Eastside

BELLEVUE, WA - PCC Community Markets, the Seattle-based upscale grocery co-op chain, will open a Bellevue store in 2020 in a development just outside downtown Bellevue, the company announced Friday.

The Bellevue store is the grocer's fourth on the Eastside after Issaquah, Kirkland, and Redmond. The Bellevue store is part of a big expansion. PCC plans to open stores in Ballard, downtown Seattle, and Madison Valley in Seattle in the coming years. PCC just opened its newest location in Burien on May 23.

The Bellevue store will be located in the Bellevue South development at the corner of Northeast 4th Street and 116th Avenue Northeast. That development will also be home to a small-format style Target announced earlier this week.

The location - on the east side of I-405 from the downtown area - is very close to the Bellevue Whole Foods (now, of course, locally owned by Amazon). The two stores sell similar foods at similar prices, but PCC is a co-op, which means shoppers can buy a share and have a say in how the company is run.

“Bellevue holds a special place in our region’s food history dating back to the 1800s when the town, rich with orchards, vegetable patches and berry farms, provided fresh produce to the rapidly growing city of Seattle,” PCC Community Markets CEO Cate Hardy said in a press release. “That same love of fresh food cultivated by local producers is what feeds our co-op, literally and figuratively.”

The 25,000-foot store will employ about 100 unionized workers.

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