Expansion Updates

There’s lots of work happening from the ground up at our new store site. The finishing touches are going on the roof, including the infrastructure needed for solar panel installation later. Inside, the clock ticks to complete the portions of plumbing and electric work that needs to happen befo

Here’s the first look inside our new store! The walls and roof trusses are now up, revealing the scale of our new space. We’ll continue to share updates as we reach milestones. Meantime, connecting with your co-op on Facebook and Instagram is a great way to see frequent construction prog

You may have seen in the Daily Astorian, that the co-op is a recipient of a Pacific Power Blue Sky program solar grant worth nearly $50,000. We are thrilled! This renewable project aligns with our mission as it pertains to sustainability and generating our own electricity would allow us to save on e

When will our new store be open? Here’s our latest construction timeline (subject to change): Groundbreaking, January 2019 Excavation/site prep, February 2019 Structural/geopiers, March 2019 Building shell complete, July 2019 Interior build-out & equipment installation, July-November 2019 Final

Construction begins on bigger store Click here for a construction timeline There was a great turnout at the groundbreaking for our bigger new store and the rain even held off during the ceremony. Board members, city officials, shoppers, neighbors, local officials and construction workers were all th

Our vision for a bigger new grocery store is becoming reality! We’ll be hosting a groundbreaking ceremony Friday, January 18 at 11 a.m. to celebrate construction beginning. The 12,000 square foot new store at 23rd and Marine Drive in Astoria’s Mill Pond Village, a redeveloped plywood mill, wil

We are excited to announce that building permits and external financing for the project have been secured and construction is set to begin early in the new year. Our delays this year associated with land use issues have coincided with increased costs in the construction industry. We’ve created a fin

If all goes well we could possibly break ground on the new store early next year! The city council this week approved our new site plan. Your co-op altered plans to include a new access road from 23rd Street, because neighbors were concerned about the previous plan to use a more narrow street called

We went back to the drawing board and have a new site plan that neighbors who had opposed the layout of our future store now support. Our expansion has been in a months-long land use process including a recent appeal by three residential property owners surrounding the co-op site. Their concerns cen

Following a grueling three-hour city council meeting, a tentative ruling came in our favor. Astoria City Councilors voted to uphold the city design review committee’s approval of our project, and reject three Mill Pond resident’s appeal. The crux of the controversy is over plans to acces