New Seasons Market is a chain of privately owned grocery stores operating in the Portland Metro area of Oregon. New Seasons also has stores in Vancouver, Washington, and San Jose, California. Two stores are slated to open in the greater Seattle area in the next two years. Founded by three families and 50 of their friends in 1999, the company currently operates 17 stores in the greater Portland/Vancouver metropolitan area, including: Hillsboro, Beaverton, Happy Valley, Vancouver, Tualatin, and Lake Oswego; one store in San Jose, California; and one store in Mercer Island, Washington. Many of the products offered are organic and produced locally in the Pacific Northwest. The stores differ from most grocers by offering natural and conventional products side by side.
History
New Seasons was founded in 1999 by Stan Amy and by 2008 had grown to nine stores and about 1,800 employees. In November 2013, the company purchased California based New Leaf Community Markets. At that time, New Seasons had grown to 15 stores and 3,000 employees.
In 2013, New Seasons was certified as a B Corporation.
Stores
New Seasons Market emphasizes the idea of a neighborhood grocery store in part by naming their stores after the neighborhood in which they reside and reflecting their surroundings in the stores' design and décor.
- Arbor Lodge is located in North Portland. Built from the ground up in 2005, Arbor Lodge is located next to the Yellow MAX line at N. Rosa Parks Way and Interstate Avenue.
- Cedar Hills is located in a former roller skating rink at Cedar Hills Crossing shopping center. Opened in 2006.
- Concordia in Northeast Portland, is located near Concordia University in the neighborhood by the same name. Constructed and opened in 2001 at NE 33rd & Killingsworth.
- Evergreen in San Jose, California, is a rebranded New Leaf Community Markets store, and the first New Seasons location outside of the Portland metropolitan area.
- Fisher's Landing opened in October 2011 in Vancouver, becoming the first New Seasons Market store outside Oregon, in a former Albertsons LLC retail store.
- Grant Park is located at NE 32nd and Broadway in the Grant Park Village development. It opened in November 2014.
- Happy Valley is located in a suburb east of Portland. Opened 2007 at 157th & Sunnyside Road.
- Hawthorne opened in October 2010 at SE 40th & Hawthorne in the Richmond neighborhood, on the site where Daily Grind Natural Foods once stood.
- Mercer Island is a rebranded Albertsons market located in Mercer Island, Washington, and the first in the Seattle area. It opened in November 2016.
- Mountain Park opened in 2006 at a long-disused Thriftway in the Portland suburb of Lake Oswego.
- Nyberg Rivers is located in a redeveloped shopping center in Tualatin. It opened in October 2014.
- Orenco Station is located in Hillsboro is part of a development near the Westside MAX. Opened in 2001 as the third store in the chain.
- Progress Ridge is located in the Tigard/Beaverton area. Opened in 2011.
- Raleigh Hills is New Seasons Market's first store, opened in 1999, a former Kienow's grocery store site.
- Sellwood is New Seasons Market's second store, on the corner of the Sellwood antique district. The building used to house a Piggly Wiggly, as portrayed within the paint of the store's inside.
- Seven Corners opened in 2004 in a remodeled Red Apple grocery and laundromat. It is located in Southeast Portland neighborhood of Hosford-Abernethy, at the seven corners formed by the intersection of SE Division Street, SE Ladd Avenue, and SE 20th Avenue on the southeast corner of Ladd's Addition.
- Slabtown is located on a former Con-way site at NW 21st and Raleigh in the Northwest District. It opened in August 2015.
- University Park is located at N Lombard and N Westanna in North Portland. It opened in March 2016.
- Williams is located in the Eliot neighborhood of North Portland. Opened in August 2013.
- Woodstock is located at SE Woodstock and 45th. It opened in October 2015.
Future
- Ballard, Seattle, scheduled to open in 2017, at Ballard Way and NW 9th Avenue. Second store in the Seattle area.
- Emeryville, scheduled to open in 2017, will be the anchor tenant of the Emeryville Public Market.
- Sunnyvale, scheduled to open in early 2017, will be located in a converted Best Buy store.
- Carmel-by-the-Sea, scheduled to open in 2019, will be a new store.
- Hayes Valley will be a new store.
References
External links
- New Seasons Market Official Site
- Screw Market Share: Whole Foods subpoenas New Seasons' financial and marketing records - Willamette Week
