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Trader Joe’s adds new locations to ‘Opening Soon’ list: Which cities can expect new stores?

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Correction: A previous version of this article misidentified the location of a newly announced store.

(NEXSTAR) – Trader Joe’s is bringing its vaguely nautical vibes to a slew of new cities in the coming months.

The grocery chain currently lists 34 locations under its “Opening Soon” tab, including over half a dozen that appeared since a previous update in July.


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Many of the upcoming locations listed on the Trader Joe’s website are slated to open within months, but the newer additions — which include stores in California, Connecticut, Washington D.C., Florida, New York, South Carolina and Texas — could take between three and six months to open, but my vary widely, according to a timeframe provided by a Trader Joe’s representative.

When an opening date is determined, it gets added “to the store’s local page,” the spokesperson said.

Here’s where Trader Joe’s is currently planning to open its next locations:

Arizona

Goodyear — N. Bullard Ave & McDowell Rd

California

La Verne — 2330 Foothill Boulevard

Costa Mesa — 2170 Harbor Boulevard, Suite 100

Connecticut

Shelton — 801 Bridgeport Avenue

Hamden — 46 Skiff Street

Washington, D.C.

Friendship Heights — 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW

Florida

Daytona Beach — 1511 Cornerstone Boulevard

Melbourne — 2221 Town Center Avenue, Suite 101

Georgia

Peachtree City – 258 City Circle

Louisiana

New Orleans — 2428 Napoleon Avenue

Massachusetts

Boston — 1999 Centre Street

Newton — 1165 Needham Street

Missouri

Columbia — 201 N. Stadium Boulevard

New Jersey

Iselin — 675 US-1

New York

Glenmont — 388 Feura Bush Road

Miller Place — 300 Route 25A Miller Place

Staten Island — 6400 Amboy Road

Williamsville — 5017 Transit Road

Oklahoma

Broken Arrow – 1525 E. Hillside Drive

Oklahoma City — 6920 Northwest Expressway

Oregon

Gresham — 2083 NE Burnside Road

Pennsylvania

Berwyn — 550 Lancaster Avenue

Exton — 125 West Lincoln Highway

South Carolina

Myrtle Beach — 115 SayeBrook Parkway

Columbia – 275 Harbison Boulevard

Texas

Bee Cave — 12812 Shops Parkway

Cypress – 9715 Towne Lake Parkway

Kingwood – 600 Kingwood Drive

McKinney — 8101 El Dorado Parkway

San Antonio — 11745 I-10 West

Utah

Holladay — 1895 East Rodeo Walk Drive

Riverdale — 4060 Riverdale Road, Suite B

Virginia

Virginia Beach — 220 Constitution Drive

Washington

Lacey — 691 Sleater Kinney Road SE

Information and photos of each location will be updated on the “Announcements” webpage of the Trader Joe’s website. Consumers can also find out whether their closest location will offer beer or wine on the “Opening Soon”  page.


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Holding out hope for a new store to open a bit closer to your neighborhood? Executives for Trader Joe’s have previously revealed that new locations are chosen based on several factors, including a town’s population density, customer traffic patterns and parking availability at a proposed site. Scouts also look for potential retail spaces that “feel” like a good fit for Trader Joe’s, marketing executives Tara Miller and Matt Sloan once explained in a 2024 episode of the “Inside Trader Joe’s” podcast.

“We have to look at a huge number of potential sites to make sure that we wind up getting the best site that we can,” Sloan said.