{"id":376895,"date":"2026-08-20T21:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376895\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T21:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:12:18","slug":"tampas-sofresh-expands-to-valrico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376895\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa\u2019s SoFresh Expands to Valrico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SoFresh is opening a new Valrico location, expanding the Tampa-based fast-casual <a href=\"https:\/\/tbbwmag.com\/restaurants\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"27\" title=\"Restaurants\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">restaurant<\/a> brand\u2019s presence in Hillsborough County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Founded in Tampa in 2013, SoFresh has grown from a local concept into a multi-state restaurant brand serving made-to-order bowls, salads, wraps and quesadillas through a mix of corporate and franchise locations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company is bringing that growth to Lithia Crossing, a KRG-owned <a href=\"https:\/\/tbbwmag.com\/retail-news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"Retail\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shopping<\/a> center along Lithia Pinecrest Road that is undergoing a tenant refresh anchored by a new Whole Foods Market. The center also includes retailers and restaurants such as Panera Bread, Chili\u2019s, Cold Stone Creamery, Warby Parker and Club Pilates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SoFresh is preparing a restaurant at 3482 Lithia Pinecrest Road within the center. The location adds another food tenant to a retail corridor that has attracted new investment, including Whole Foods\u2019 conversion of the former Fresh Market space into a 38,000-square-foot store and two additional tenant spaces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KRG Lithia LLC has owned the property since acquiring it for $13.25 million in 2011, records show. The shopping center property includes multiple retail and restaurant buildings constructed in 2003 and carries a market value of about $16.5 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SoFresh has not disclosed an opening date, investment amount or planned staffing for the Valrico restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SoFresh is opening a new Valrico location, expanding the Tampa-based fast-casual restaurant brand\u2019s presence in Hillsborough County. Founded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-376895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}