Meijer IS coming to Minnesota

Meijer ended speculation about a Minnesota entry with a resounding YES with their news of a land purchase in Brooklyn Park. They bought 30 acres of land at the NE corner of Highway 610 and Zane Avenue, adding lots of retail supermarket square footage to an already busy intersection. Cub Foods has operated their 68,000 sf store at HJ’s Park Place Promenade center for quite some time now, and was already bracing for competition with the new HyVee now under construction on the south side of Highway 610. Meijer, a supercenter based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, operates over 200 large stores (+/- 200,000 sf) throughout the Midwest and will challenge not only the grocers but certainly Target and Walmart.