Whole Foods adding downtown Nashville store

May 5, 2016, 10:24am CDT Updated May 5, 2016, 2:57pm CDT

Adam SichkoSenior ReporterNashville Business Journal

Whole Foods is bringing another grocery store to Nashville - and it's coming to a proposed 27-story mixed-use development downtown.

Downtown currently lacks a full-service grocery store, the most glaring amenity missing for a downtown population that's jumped 60 percent in five years, to about 8,660 residents. That Nashville Downtown Partnership projects that headcount to surge nearly 20 percent by year's end, topping 10,200 residents. The arrival of any grocery, particularly one with Whole Foods' profile, would be a jolt to developers pursuing apartment and condo projects and also city officials working to recruit more companies to relocate into the city core.

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