Hillsboro Food Co-op is planning to open a full-service grocery store in the space left behind by Hank’s Thriftway at 661 SE Baseline St in downtown Hillsboro, according to a comment posted on Facebook. The project is being led by their president Alyssa Schorer, and one of the board members, Dawn Wallace, confirmed the plans directly to What Now Portland. Wallace said the project is still likely a couple of years away from opening.
The grocery brand has been working toward a brick-and-mortar store since incorporating back in 2014, building itself as a community-owned cooperative where member-owners share in the store’s direction. The group is partnering with Fresh Foods on the new location, positioning the co-op as a locally focused alternative to the traditional grocery chains that have come and gone from the site over the years.
Schorer, a Hillsboro resident since 2015 who runs her own construction consulting business with a background in structural engineering, said building a physical store has been a long-standing goal for the organization, one she called an exciting prospect given her own background. The co-op’s broader mission centers on offering local, sustainable and healthy food at an affordable price, with plans that reportedly include around 100 or more housing units built above the grocery space as part of the redevelopment.
The site, known officially as Block 67, is being redeveloped by Washington based Kōz Development, which entered a disposition agreement with the City of Hillsboro in December 2024 after the city acquired the property back in 2016 for 4.8 million dollars. Construction is expected to run roughly two years, from this spring through spring 2028, and will include two buildings: a four story building along Washington Street with 114 units of senior housing, and a six story building fronting Baseline Street with 224 units of workforce housing, including the ground floor retail space set aside for the grocery store.
