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Grocers

Whole Foods

Whole Foods Market opened a 42,000-square-foot store in the New York City Financial District skyscraper known as One Wall Street. The store’s art deco-inspired design is meant to mirror the area, as are its product offerings, which will include specially curated locally sourced foods.

Winn-Dixie

Southeastern Grocers has opened a new 41,454-square-foot Winn-Dixie store in St. Johns County, Florida’s Grand Cypress community. It also plans to open two more stores in Jacksonville and Central Florida.

ALDI

Aldi’s 26th regional headquarters will support 100 stores and provide groceries to 8 million of its Gulf Coast shoppers. The distribution center in Loxley, Alabama is part of planned store openings in the region through 2023.

H-E-B

H.E.B. has opened a new store in Cibolo, Texas, which includes a 55,000-square-foot e-commerce fulfillment center with automation solutions. The center will join a growing footprint of fulfillment facilities that have brought curbside pickup and home delivery capabilities to more than 270 stores throughout the state.

Whole Foods Market

Whole Foods Market is embarking on an initiative called “Growing with Purpose,” which lays out a 10-year plan focused on boosting business performance, improving customer experience and fostering team member happiness and growth. The company has set ambitious growth plans that call for entering new global markets and ramping up new store openings to 30 or more locations a year.

DG Market

The new DG Market in Winchester, Illinois, which replaced a traditional Dollar General location about a mile away, will sell an expanded inventory of produce and fresh meats. The move is part of the company’s strategy to carry fresh produce in at least 10,000 stores, especially in food deserts and rural areas.

Hospitality

Choctaw Casino & Resort

A 21-story tower headlines the $600 million expansion of the Choctaw Casino & Resort in Durant, Oklahoma, near the Texas border. The Choctaw Nation’s flagship property features six restaurants, 11 bars, a three-acre swimming area and 1,000 new hotel rooms.

Hard Rock

The gambling, hospitality and entertainment company Hard Rock wants to build a $2 billion casino in New York City and is considering at least three possible sites. Hard Rock is also slated to open a new hotel in Manhattan in April.

Great Wolf Lodge

Plans to open a Great Wolf Lodge waterpark resort at Sequoia Gateway Commerce Center in Visalia, California are underway. The project could begin construction in early 2023 and include an indoor water park, an outdoor pool area, a 700-room hotel and a family entertainment center.

Highgate

Hotels

The select-service properties that predominate in Highgate Hotels’ portfolio have inspired the launch of Highgate Select, a new division focusing on select-service, limited-service and extended-stay modes. The New York City-based company’s 533 hotels include 320 acquired in two deals with partner Cerberus Capital Management.

Rosewood Hotels & Resorts Rosewood

In 2025, the City of Miami will reclaim one of its original icons, the Raleigh. Closed since 2017, the landmark art deco hotel aims to reclaim its standing and operate under the umbrella of Rosewood Hotels & Resorts, whose luxury portfolio includes New York’s Carlyle and the Crillon in Paris.

Disney World’s Polynesian Village

Disney has announced a new expansion for the popular Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort, which will bring more Disney Vacation Club villas to the popular resort. The new villas coming to Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort will be located on the edge of the man-made waterway, Seven Seas Lagoon, and be part of the fan-favorite monorail resorts. This is the same area where Disney’s Contemporary Resort and Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort and Spa is located.

Maswik South Lodge

Travelers headed to Grand Canyon now have a new option for in-park accommodations. After its $35 million reconstruction by Xanterra Travel Collection, Maswik South Lodge is the first new lodging inside the park in over 50-years and is just footsteps away from the Grand Canyon National Park’s South Rim.

RETAIL Target/Ulta Beauty

The number of Target stores with Ulta Beauty shops-in-shop will grow from 101 to more than 350, as the collaboration’s launch last year has spurred incremental sales in related categories throughout the store. Target aims to grow the partnership to at least 800 stores.