friendliest store in town . type grocer industry retail sales founded 1999 headquarters portland oregon 1 key people wendy collie ceo products local and sustainable food conventional foods and homegoods . number of employees 3 000 2013 subsidiaries new leaf community markets website newseasonsmarket.com new seasons market is a chain of privately owned grocery stores operating in the portland metro area of oregon . new seasons also has stores in vancouver washington and san jose california . two stores are slated to open in the greater seattle area in the next two years . founded by three families and 50 of their friends in 1999 the company currently operates 17 stores in the greater portland vancouver metropolitan area including hillsboro beaverton happy valley vancouver tualatin and lake oswego ; and one store in san jose california . many of the products offered are organic and produced locally in the pacific northwest . the stores differ from most grocers by offering natural and conventional products side by side . contents 1 history 2 stores 2.1 future 3 references 4 external links history edit new seasons was founded in 1999 by stan amy and by 2008 had grown to nine stores and about 1 800 employees . in november 2013 the company purchased california based new leaf community markets . 2 at that time new seasons had grown to 15 stores and 3 000 employees . 2 stores edit orenco station store new seasons market emphasizes the idea of a neighborhood grocery store in part by naming their stores after the neighborhood in which they reside and reflecting their surroundings in the stores design and d cor . arbor lodge is located in north portland . built from the ground up in 2005 arbor lodge is located next to the yellow max line at n. rosa parks way and interstate avenue . cedar hills is located in a former roller skating rink at cedar hills crossing shopping center . opened in 2006 . concordia in northeast portland is located near concordia university in the neighborhood by the same name . constructed and opened in 2001 at ne 33rd & killingsworth . evergreen in san jose california is a rebranded new leaf community markets store and the first new seasons location outside of the portland metropolitan area . 3 fisher s landing opened in october 2011 in vancouver becoming the first new seasons market store outside oregon in a former albertsons llc retail store . grant park is located at ne 32nd and broadway in the grant park village development . it opened in november 2014 . 4 5 happy valley is located in a suburb east of portland . opened 2007 at 157th & sunnyside road . hawthorne opened in october 2010 at se 40th & hawthorne in the richmond neighborhood on the site where daily grind natural foods once stood . mountain park opened in 2006 at a long disused thriftway in the portland suburb of lake oswego . nyberg rivers is located in a redeveloped shopping center in tualatin . it opened in october 2014 . 6 7 orenco station is located in hillsboro is part of a development near the westside max . opened in 2001 as the third store in the chain . 8 progress ridge is located in the tigard beaverton area . opened in 2011 . raleigh hills is new seasons market s first store opened in 1999 a former kienow s grocery store site . sellwood is new seasons market s second store on the corner of the sellwood antique district . the building used to house a piggly wiggly as portrayed within the paint of the store s inside . seven corners opened in 2004 in a remodeled red apple grocery and laundromat . it is located in southeast portland neighborhood of hosford abernethy at the seven corners formed by the intersection of se division street se ladd avenue and se 20th avenue on the southeast corner of ladd s addition . slabtown is located on a former con way site at nw 21st and raleigh in the northwest district . it opened in august 2015 . 9 university park is located at n lombard and n westanna in north portland . it opened in march 2016 . 10 williams is located in the eliot neighborhood of north portland . opened in august 2013 . woodstock is located at se woodstock and 45th . it opened in october 2015 . 11 future edit ballard seattle scheduled to open in 2017 at ballard way and nw 9th avenue . second store in the seattle area . 12 emeryville scheduled to open in 2017 will be the anchor tenant of the emeryville public market . 13 mercer island washington will be a rebranded albertsons market and the first in the seattle area . 14 sunnyvale scheduled to open in early 2017 will be located in a converted best buy store . 15 carmel by the sea scheduled to open in 2019 will be a new store . 16 references edit njus elliot september 29 2014 . new seasons offices will anchor washington high school redevelopment . the oregonian . retrieved 5 october 2014 . a b culverwell wendy november 12 2013 . new seasons to buy california s new leaf community markets . portland business journal . retrieved 14 november 2013 . marum anna february 25 2015 . new seasons market opening first california store ; plus two more in portland this year . the oregonian . retrieved 3 march 2015 . bingham larry september 19 2012 . new seasons to be anchor tenant at northeast portland s grant park village development . the oregonian . retrieved 22 august 2014 . marum anna november 10 2014 . new seasons market brings growler station toast bar to ne broadway with newest store . the oregonian . retrieved 10 november 2014 . nerappil fennit july 23 2013 . new seasons coming to tualatin s nyberg rivers shopping center . the oregonian . retrieved 22 august 2014 . giegerich andy october 17 2014 . it s a date new seasons sets opening for tualatin grocery . portland business journal . retrieved 24 october 2014 . business briefs . the oregonian . september 20 2001 . p. west zoner 8 . jones allison august 4 2015 . new seasons slabtown opens in northwest portland . portland monthly . retrieved august 24 2015 . bell jon march 22 2016 . new seasons heads to north portland with its 19th store . portland business journal . retrieved april 2 2016 . marum anna october 19 2015 . woodstock new seasons store to feature rooftop bar photos . the oregonian . retrieved january 5 2016 . gonz lez ngel january 15 2016 . portland s new seasons market plans ballard location . the seattle times . retrieved january 20 2016 . fletcher ethan october 14 2015 . new seasons market coming to emeryville public market . sfgate . retrieved january 5 2016 . metzger katie july 15 2015 . new seasons is island s new grocer . mercer island reporter . retrieved 15 july 2015 . donato weinstein nathan october 14 2015 . sunnyvale you re getting a new grocery store here s where . silicon valley business journal . retrieved january 5 2016 . anderson mark august 31 2016 . new seasons grocery store coming to rio road and crossroads in carmel . silicon valley business journal . retrieved september 30 2016 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related 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