Kroger Wants To Be An ‘Urban Player,’ Eyes More Downtown Supermarkets

Kroger, fresh from having opened a new store in an apartment complex in Denver's white-hot Union Station neighborhood — wants to move back into the business of running urban stores in its big-city markets.

“Clearly, we want to be an urban player,” Nick Hodge, Kroger Co.’s new vice president of corporate real estate, said Friday at a real estate forum in Kroger's headquarters city of Cincinnati.

“The business has changed dramatically in 15 years,” Hodge told the crowd.

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