Updated at 12:34 p.m., Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Kahala Whole Foods Market to be bigger
Advertiser Staff
Hawai'i's first Whole Foods Market will be a little bigger than originally planned when it opens later this year at Kahala Mall.The natural and organic foods grocery chain has agreed to lease an extra 1,979 square feet next to its initial 26,601-square-foot space at the shopping center. The store is slated to open mid-year.
Whole Foods last May announced it planned a Kahala Mall store in space formerly occupied by Star Markets. Today the mall said Whole Foods would also occupy the adjacent retail space of The Patisserie and I Love Country Café.
The Patisserie closed on Monday, and I Love Country Café's lease ends next week, mall management said.
Other tenants displaced last year from the area of the coming Whole Foods were Yen King restaurant and Ginza Kimuraya Tokyo Bakery and Cafe. Those two spaces are being combined for a new restaurant that the mall hopes will sign a lease soon. Central Pacific Bank, another tenant near the Whole Foods spot, will remain.
