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A "gourmet" grocery store is planned in part of an ex-Sav-On drugstore on Bogus Basin Road in north Boise, moving development of the planned Highlands Station service-retail center a step forward.
Crane Creek Market will occupy a space of 16,300 square feet on the southwest side of the 26,000-square-foot building, said Rick Clark, managing member of Boise-based Highlands Station LLC.
Owner Rod Meyer said the store, slated to open in midNovember, would serve a niche slightly different than that of the Boise Consumer Co-op, a mile away at Ninth and Fort streets, and City Market at Eagle Road and Chinden Boulevard.
"I'd consider Albertsons to be more of a competitor to me than the Boise Co-op because we'll carry so many of the traditional items as well," said Meyer. "The Co-op has more of the natural foods, where we'll be more gourmet."
Crane Creek Market will sell brand-name items such as Cheerios cereal, Best Foods mayonnaise, Doritos chips and Pepsi soda, along with grocery staples such as milk, bread, meat and paper products. Prices will be "competitive" with Albertsons, said Meyer - who worked for 10 years with Brown & Cole, a company that owns 35 independent grocery stores in Washington...