King Soopers opening new location south of Colorado Springs

By Breeanna Jent July 29, 2025 | updated 9 months ago

The new 122,000-square-foot King Soopers marketplace store in Fountain, south of Colorado Springs, is located southeast of Mesa Ridge Parkway and Syracuse Street. It opens Wednesday, July 25, 2025.

The new 122,000-square-foot King Soopers marketplace store in Fountain, south of Colorado Springs, is southeast of Mesa Ridge Parkway and Syracuse Street. It opens Wednesday.
Breeanna Jent, The Gazette

King Soopers continues to expand its footprint in the Pikes Peak region with the grand opening Wednesday of a store in Fountain, south of Colorado Springs.

The new grocery southeast of Mesa Ridge Parkway and Syracuse Street will officially open to the public following an 8:30 a.m. ribbon cutting. The store anchors the Mesa Ridge Marketplace in Fountain and is the 156th location for Denver-based King Soopers, part of the Kroger chain based in Ohio, store officials said at a groundbreaking ceremony last summer.

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In early 2024, the grocer opened a store in the Falcon Marketplace shopping center in unincorporated Falcon, northeast of the Springs. Early this year, it opened a store in the Flying Horse development on Colorado Springs’ far north side.

Like those stores, the Fountain store is a larger-format marketplace store — the 122,000-square-foot King Soopers is about twice the size of the grocery chain’s traditional 65,000-square-foot stores. The chain opened its first Springs-area marketplace store in 2017 at Marksheffel Road and Constitution Avenue in the Claremont Ranch Marketplace shopping center.

The marketplace stores sell apparel, shoes, dinnerware, small appliances and other items to go with full lines of groceries, meat and produce.

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Denver-based King Soopers, part of the Kroger chain based in Ohio, is opening its newest, larger-format marketplace store in Fountain, south of Colorado Springs, on Wednesday, July 30, 2025. — Denver-based King Soopers, part of the Kroger chain based in Ohio, is opening its newest, larger-format marketplace store in Fountain, south of Colorado Springs, on Wednesday.

Breeanna Jent, The Gazette

Amenities at the new Fountain store include a Starbucks, a Murray’s cheese shop, an 18-pump fuel station and a pharmacy with a drive-thru.

The store employs more than 250 workers, King Soopers spokeswoman Jessica Trowbridge said, and will be open daily from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.

The marketplace will provide more choices for the roughly 70,000 residents who call the Fountain Valley home, many of whom still drive north to Colorado Springs to shop, Fountain officials said. A consultant in 2023 estimated the city was losing $42 million in annual retail activity because residents chose to shop elsewhere.

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The King Soopers marketplace store is another major grocery in the area, alongside a Safeway store, two Walmart Supercenters and a Sam’s Club location, the Walmart-owned wholesale club.

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“We are so excited that King Soopers chose to come to the city of Fountain and … we’re excited about the tax dollars that are going to stay in our community,” Mayor Sharon Thompson said Wednesday. “But more important than that is the convenience this gives our (residents), the additional choices this gives our (residents).”

Other stores and restaurants are going up around the King Soopers at the Mesa Ridge Marketplace.

Hamburger, chicken and Mexican restaurants, a sandwich shop, hair salon, credit union, auto parts store, oil change service and dentist’s office are among users who have signed leases or have pending deals to come to the marketplace, according to banners on site and the website of the shopping center’s developer Evergreen Devco. The real estate company has offices in Denver, Phoenix, California and Utah.

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Other development nearby includes the Mesa Ridge Crossing shopping center on the west side of Syracuse Street, also built by Evergreen Devco. It includes a Dutch Bros Coffee, Quick Quack car wash, a Discount Tire, a Good 2 Go convenience store and an approximately 6,700-square-foot UCHealth Primary Care center that opened in February.

Thompson said she hopes the new developments will encourage even more retailers to do business in Fountain.

“You always hope that is part of the residual override that comes with a new project like this. I get excited, as our residents do, when we see new banners put up for new businesses coming in,” she said.