"We're very excited about them coming here," said Bannockburn Village Manager Maria Lasday, confirming the news via telephone. She said the store is expected to open within the next several months situated in a community eager to welcome a high-end grocery store.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Heinen's Fine Foods, in the midst of opening its 19th and 20th grocery stores in Glenview, Ill., and downtown Cleveland this year, has just signed a lease to open its third Chicago-area store in Bannockburn.
"We're very excited about them coming here," said Village Manager Maria Lasday, confirming the news via telephone. She said Heinen's is expected to open within the next several months in a community eager to welcome a high-end grocery store.
Heinen's officials could not be reached on Wednesday afternoon.
The Village of Bannockburn, about 25 miles north of Chicago, is about 30 minutes east of Heinen's Barrington store, which opened in August 2012. It is about 20 minutes north of its Glenview store, opening this May.
Bannockburn's population of 1,583 people balloons to about 25,000 in the daytime because of students at Trinity International University and workers at LTD Commodities, Walgreens and Netrix LLC. Bannockburn's median household income in 2011 was $166,467, about three times that of Illinois as a whole, and its median home value was $904,949.
Heinen's will open its newest store inside a former Dominick's Finer Foods, at 2503 Waukegan Road in Bannockburn Green shopping center. Dominick's left the Bannockburn store earlier this month. Its parent company, Safeway Inc., announced last year that it was leaving the Greater Chicago area, creating vacancies that competitors including Mariano's Fresh Market and Whole Foods have snatched up.
Lasday said Heinen's would be the only grocery in Bannockburn, but that nearby grocery stores include a Sunset Foods in adjacent Lake Forest and Whole Foods in the Village of Deerfield.