Whole Foods Market confirmed its plans for a new store in Las Vegas.

The upscale supermarket chain on Thursday confirmed to the Las Vegas Review-Journal that a Whole Foods location in a northwest valley shopping center is “in development.”

It said it did not have additional information to share at this time.

The Review-Journal reported on Wednesday that Whole Foods is penciled to occupy a now-shuttered former Big Lots store on Tropical Parkway at Centennial Center Boulevard.

Brokerage firm Cushman & Wakefield reported the lease in a recent Las Vegas market report, and landlord Kite Realty Group shows Whole Foods in a site plan for the plaza, called Centennial Center.

Whole Foods has four stores in Southern Nevada. It opened its latest location this past spring in Summerlin, having mov

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