(New Seasons is a small investor, she added.) She says it’s an entrepreneurial attempt to solve an eternal problem in the grocery business: how to generate more revenue per square foot of store? Sedlar, the former CEO of Portland-based New Seasons Market and before that a director of purchasing for Austin-based Whole Foods, said she’s been working on this plan for 10 years. Rendering by LRS Architects of the new Green Zebra at Lombard and Peninsular. An on-site self-serve bike pump and maintenance stand.More on-site bike parking (20 spaces, including covered spaces and room for cargo bikes) than car parking (17, which is still quite a lot for a corner store). ![]() A bike-up/walk-up window for sidewalk service.An on-site cargo bike, which might be borrowed or even pedaled home (for a fee) by staff.Bike trailers, available for overnight paid rental if you need to carry home more than you expected.1 at North Lombard and Peninsular in the Kenton neighborhood. “The model itself is built on the idea of a 20-minute neighborhood, so all your goods and services are built to be available within a 20-minute walk or bike,” Sedlar said in an interview last week in the construction trailer behind Green Zebra’s first location, which opens Oct. All of it in 7,000 square feet.Īnd it’s not going to work, the CEO of Green Zebra Grocery says, without bikes. ![]() Beer, wine and kombucha on tap, with tables on the patio out front. A “microroast coffee of the week.” A meat department that includes grass-fed beef. Here’s what the plan looks like: A huge, curving salad bar area at the front of the room, with fresh grab-and-go sandwiches, four cook-from-scratch soups and freshly cooked Indian food. Her plan starts in North Portland next month and is intended to expand to Southeast soon after. Lisa Sedlar is on a mission to do for the Portland mini-mart what Burgerville did for fast food and New Seasons did for grocery stores.
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