{"id":446457,"date":"2026-08-28T20:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T20:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446457\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T20:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T20:26:12","slug":"sprouts-market-plans-first-sf-store-at-former-nordstrom-rack-site-on-ninth-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446457\/","title":{"rendered":"Sprouts Market Plans First SF Store at Former Nordstrom Rack Site on Ninth Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SF\u2019s South of Market neighborhood will be getting a new grocery store in 2028, as Sprouts Farmers Market is moving into the former Nordstrom Rack at 555 Ninth Street, next door to Trader Joe&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix-based Sprouts Farmers Market is expected to take over the roughly 25,700-square-foot space at Ninth and Bryant streets in 2028, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/food\/article\/sf-first-sprouts-opening-22406765.php?ref=sfist.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as SFGate reports<\/a>. The grocery chain specializes in products geared toward a range of dietary preferences, including organic, gluten-free, plant-based, keto, paleo, and non-GM foods.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSprouts looks forward to continuing to expand its footprint in California while bringing a wide assortment of fresh, local and better-for-you products to the community,\u201d Sprouts spokesperson Mychael Ramirez told SFGate.<\/p>\n<p>The new Sprouts will occupy the former Nordstrom Rack spot, which closed in 2021, and The Container Store is currently above it on the second floor. Trader Joe&#8217;s is also located on the ground floor of the shopping center, with Costco nearby at 10th and Harrison. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\/news\/bay-area\/sprouts-opening-first-san-francisco-location\/?ref=sfist.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KRON4 reported<\/a> in February that Sprouts had submitted a proposal to the city to expand an existing curb cut to accommodate a trash compactor. Acadia Realty, which owns the shopping center, filed a commercial application with the planning department in May.<\/p>\n<p>Sprouts reportedly opened its first store in Arizona in 2002, and its headquarters are located in Phoenix. <\/p>\n<p>Its first San Francisco location comes as Sprouts has been steadily expanding throughout California, according to SFGate. The company reportedly opened a distribution center in Fullerton in 2023, which CEO Jack Sinclair said would support the chain\u2019s expansion across California and the rest of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The company has also been adding stores around the Bay Area, including locations in Hayward in 2024 and Pittsburg and San Leandro in 2025, and a San Jose location opened in 2023. Sprouts has more than 400 stores across 23 states, including 156 in California.<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/2026\/08\/14\/grocery-outlet-opens-in-north-beach-at-former-safeway-site-as-chain-celebrates-80-years\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grocery Outlet Opens In North Beach at Former Safeway Site as Chain Celebrates 80 Years<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SF<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-preferred-source-kicker\">Keep SFist in your news mix<\/p>\n<p>                        Make SFist a preferred source<\/p>\n<p>Choose SFist to see more of our local reporting in Google\u2019s Top Stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SF\u2019s South of Market neighborhood will be getting a new grocery store in 2028, as Sprouts Farmers Market&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-446457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}