A Trader Joe's location will open soon in Fort Wayne, Ind., and the grocer also has announced plans for additional stores in California, Virginia and New Jersey.
Residents of Fort Wayne, Ind., who started a “Fort Wayne Wants a Trader Joe’s” Facebook page are about to see their wishes become a reality as the grocer will open soon open a new location at 4110 W. Jefferson Blvd.
The new store at the Jefferson Pointe shopping center is one of four new stores slated to open soon, although specific dates haven't been announced yet. The three other new stores are in Freehold, N.J.; Milpitas, Calif.; and Richmond, Va.
The Freehold location at 4331 U.S. 9 #3, Pond Road Plaza, was formerly occupied by a Walgreens. The next closest Trader Joe’s is some 15 miles away in Shrewsbury, N.J. In Milpitas, Trader Joe’s will occupy a residential mixed-use building at 1306 Great Mall Parkway. And in Richmond, the grocer is taking over a 14,700-square-foot space at 3000 Stony Point Road that used to house a Martin’s Food and Drugstore.
Trader Joe’s invites consumers to “Request a TJ’s in My City” through a form on its website. The company says, “there are no guarantees, but being wanted matters to us."