Green Zebra Grocery, the company we’ve heralded as having the best bike parking in Portland, just announced the location of their long-awaited second store: It’s coming to the Lloyd District as the anchor tenant in the new Hassalo on Eighth development.
A rendering of the new 8,203 square-foot store shows that it will face directly onto NE Multnomah Street (between 7th and 9th), which just so happens to be home of Portland’s best protected bike lane. That fact, combined with Green Zebra’s stellar level of respect for bicycling customers in general, has led the company’s founder and CEO Lisa Sedlar to estimate that half of the store’s customers will show up by bike, on foot, or via public transportation.
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Green Zebra isn’t your typical grocery store. Think of a healthier version of the ubiquitous corner convenience store or mini-mart. Sedlar told us back in September 2013 before opening her first store that, “The model itself is built on the idea of a 20-minute neighborhood, so all your goods and services are built to be available within a 20-minute walk or bike.”
The announcement of a Lloyd District location comes amid a flurry of new development in the area. The redesign of NE Multnomah from auto-dominated thoroughfare to a calmer, more balanced street with a protected area for cycling has influenced a major redesign of the Lloyd Center Mall and has also become a selling point for the Hassalo on Eighth development. That development includes three separate buildings with over 650 apartments and the largest bike parking facility in North America with 1,200 spaces.
The new store is scheduled to open in early 2016.
— Stay tuned for more coverage later today when we wrap up The District, our in-depth three-part series about the past, present and future of the Lloyd District and what it means for how we get around.