MERIDIAN TWP. — Trader Joe’s has officially announced plans for its new East Grand River Avenue location, listing the store as “coming soon” on its website .
The listing on the national retailer’s website this week comes more than two years after Meridian Township’s Zoning Board of Appeals first approved a variance to allow the specialty grocer to have 115 parking spaces on its site in December 2021.
The website listing is the first time the California-based Trader Joe’s has acknowledged the 13,500-square-foot store, under construction on 2.2 acres on Grand River Avenue across the street from the Whole Foods Market in East Lansing for over a year.
Property records for 2755 Grand River Ave. list Trader Joe’s East Inc. as the owner, and the township issued a permit in August 2023 allowing for the shell of the store to go up, but Nakia Rohde, a Trader Joe’s public relations manager, told the State Journal in September that the company doesn’t announce store openings early in their development.