Fresh St. Market Celebrates Gold Award in Prestigious 2021 Shop! Design Awards

Vancouver House location wins Gold in Supermarket/Grocery Store category  

MAY 27, 2022, Burnaby, B.C. – Fresh St. Market’s Vancouver House location has received the prestigious Gold Award in the Supermarket/Grocery Store category for the 2021 Shop! Design Award. The Shop! Design Award celebrates achievements in areas such as new store design, renovations, fixtures, visual presentation projects and in-store communications. Entries are cited for excellence in design, originality in use of space and materials and quality of concept execution.  

“The team at Fresh St. Market is honoured to receive the Gold award celebrating originality, design and concept execution in the supermarket, grocery store category,” said Mark McCurdy V.P. Retail Operations & Brand Strategy, Fresh St. Market. “When we set out to design the Vancouver House location, we focused on how the use of this space would create a second-to-none shopping experience with the highest quality design and creative store fixtures.”  

The concept for Fresh St. Market at Vancouver House was inspired by the executive and culinary team’s touring of top public markets and eateries across North America. Fresh St Market was founded on the principle of discovery and love of local products, unique finds, and culinary delights. Included in this jam-packed 15,000 sq ft store is an instore restaurant “Fork Lift Kitchen and Bar offering smash burgers, street tacos and ramen noodle bowls along with local brews and award winning wines.”  

Fresh St. Market worked with longtime design partner King Retail Solutions (KRS) out of Eugene Oregon who truly took the Fresh St. team’s ideas and brought them to life.

“Evoking the feel of the great urban markets, Vancouver House epitomizes connection to place. It is the perfect adaptation of the Fresh St. Market brand (industrial meets farm) with a hint of city lights. said Sarah Luker, KRS Senior Designer. One look at the ceiling’s complex mechanical network is all it takes to grasp the depth of collaboration between the Fresh St. Market team, KRS, contractors, and consultants on this project. It really is something special!”  

Shop! Is the global trade association dedicated to enhancing retail environments and experiences. The Shop! Awards are the premier awards program in the retail industry, honouring the best of the best in the retail design industry. Shop! runs three different awards programs to highlight the best new designs in retail environments and experiences, including the OMA Awards, the Global Awards and the Design Awards. 

About Fresh St. Market Family-owned, operated and based in British Columbia, Fresh St. Market offers a public market food and shopping experience inspired by top markets and eateries in North America. Inside its six locations, customers will find a wide variety of locally sourced foods, fresh produce, a significant amount of organic foods, specially curated foods and uniquely dedicated food destinations within the store. Current locations include Marine Drive, West Vancouver, Fleetwood Surrey, Panorama Surrey, Whistler, Vancouver House, Kamloops and soon to be open in north Langley. www.freshstmarket.com.  

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