“I think Amazon Fresh will be a major draw for the center and generate activity that might not have otherwise been there,” Adams said.Īmazon Fresh touts itself as a “seamless experience” for customers, whether they’re shopping in-store or online. Orchard Hardware had anchored the retail complex, he said, but the building has remained vacant since that business moved out in 2018. Jeff Adams, Whittier’s community development director, said the city is glad to see the space filled. “It was just a matter of going through steps with the city to show it could accommodate the needs of a grocery store.”Īmazon converted the hardware store’s garden center to accommodate grocery pickup. “After Orchard Supply Hardware closed we targeted the location for grocery store use to reposition the Friendly Hills Marketplace as a daily needs shopping center,” said Darren Barkev, a broker with Reeco. The lease on the 38,000-square-foot building was recently completed, and the store opened Thursday, Jan.

Reeco, a local real estate brokerage, represented the landlord, The Golden Group, and worked closely with the city to revitalize the 90,000-square-foot shopping center. The others are in Woodland Hills, Irvine, North Hollywood and Northridge. in the Friendly Hills Marketplace, is the e-commerce giant’s fifth such grocery location in Southern California.

An Amazon Fresh supermarket has opened in Whittier at the site of a former Orchard Supply Hardware store.

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