Whole Foods Market

Whole Foods Market is coming to downtown St. Charles. The store is planned to open in Spring 2025.

The location is the former Blue Goose store, at 300 S 2nd St. Fort Union, a regional development commercial specializing in grocery anchors, acquired the property in 2023 and successfully entered into a lease agreement with Whole Foods Market. 

The City approved PUD Preliminary Plans for the project.  The project will be constructed in two phases:

• For the first phase, the property owner prepared the building and site. Parking lots around the site were reconstructed for future use by Whole Foods, including the City-owned parking lot located at the southwest corner of Illinois & First Streets. A portion of the parking lot now provides parking spaces for public use at the north end along Illinois St. The sidewalks and landscaping around the parking lots were reconstructed to add angled street parking, paver bricks, landscape beds, and decorative lighting. 
• The second phase will be store improvements by Whole Foods to build out the store interior and add exterior signage. This work will start this fall and extend into early 2025.

As a part of the project approval, the City approved an incentive agreement to reimburse the developer for the cost of the parking lot and street/sidewalk improvements.

For additional information on the project, contact Community Development at (630) 377-4443 or email to cd@stcharlesil.gov.