Trader Joe’s appears to be coming to Mandarin.
Documents filed with building plans show the California-based grocer wants to open in Claire Lane Center at 11112 San Jose Blvd.
It would be the second area location for the popular chain, which bills itself as a neighborhood grocery store with food and beverages from around the globe.
The first opened in 2014 in Jacksonville Beach.
The Mandarin site is at Claire Lane and San Jose Boulevard, south of Interstate 295.
Sleiman Enterprises owns the shopping center, where 13,746 square feet would be renovated for Trader Joe’s.
The city is reviewing plans for a shell and facade renovation to the building, including loading dock modifications, demolition and mechanical, engineering and plumbing work.
It would split an existing tenant location into two spaces. Build-out specifically for Trader Joe’s would be permitted separately and include new doors, a new storefront and façade improvements, among other work.
Trader Joe’s is identified in the compliance certificates filed with the building plans.
A Claire Lane Center site plan on the Sleiman Enterprises website shows a large space available near the Miller’s Ale House Mandarin.
Trader Joe’s opened its first area store in October 2014 at the South Beach Regional shopping center at northwest Florida A1A and Butler Boulevard in Jacksonville Beach.
The privately held Monrovia, Calif.-based company announced a year earlier it signed a lease to open the 12,500-square-foot store, whose décor includes traditional Trader Joe’s elements, such as cedar-covered walls and Hawaiian motifs.
Its products include more than 3,000 items under the Trader Joe’s private label.
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