The Big Carrot, a health food retailer on Toronto’s Danforth Avenue, is now expanding into a second location on Kingston Road, where it will be the flagship retailer in a condo development.
The new 6,300-square-foot store is going into the six-storey Southwood project by Streetcar Developments.
“It was just time for us to expand outside this community,” says Big Carrot spokesperson Sarah Dobec of the new location. “The east end is just a perfect distance from where we are now in a really thriving community. The Beach is growing all the time. Kingston Rd. in particular is really growing.”
The Big Carrot Natural Food Market retails vegetarian and vegan organic, gluten-free and non-GMO foods. The new shop is expected to open late 2017, and will combine the existing location’s grocery section, holistic dispensary and juice bar, which are currently situated in three separate spaces on the Danforth’s Carrot Common.
Additionally, Dolbec notes that the new store will feature a similar courtyard experience with some seating and a waiting area for dogs. It will also operate under the same worker-owner structure as the original Big Carrot, which allows workers to take shares in the business and discuss how it is run.
