The Lee's Market on the corner of 300 North and 400 West in Salt Lake City — seen here when it opened in February 2020 — is reopening after being closed more than a year. A soft opening is planned for April 11, 2024, with a grand opening sometime in May 2024.
The new store will focus more on “convenience items,” such as grab-and-go salads, sushi, rotisserie chickens and deli sandwiches, as well as reheatable meals for up to four people. “We have a couple of years of data that show what did sell and didn’t sell,” Badger said. Lee’s Market first opened at the Marmalade location in February 2020, just weeks before Salt Lake City went into lockdown due to the pandemic.
This time around, there are several hundred more apartments built or being built near the store, Badger said, as well as a pedestrian bridge over the train tracks that links the east and west sides of the city. “Downtown is booming again,” he said. “It’s growing in a lot of different ways.” Jared Cole, the property manager of the Citizens West mixed-use community just across the train tracks from Lee’s, said more buildings will be added to the development’s 80 existing apartments this year.