Just months after Kansas City, Kansas, lost its downtown grocery store, another vendor is announcing plans to take its place.
Wyandotte County’s Economic Development and Finance Committee will consider Monday evening a resolution to approve a letter of intent saying Sante Fe Grocers, LLC, wants to manage and operate a grocery store at 501 Minnesota Avenue.
If successful, the new store would replace The Merc Co+op, a locally owned market that’s connected to the National Co+op Grocers group. A spokesperson with the company announced last summer that the store would close at the end of 2025, just five years after its 2020 opening…