Purple Carrot Market

 Purple Carrot Market's vision is to be “a vibrant, welcoming full-service grocery store, providing community economic benefits, exceptional downtown shopping, and fresh, healthy, locally-sourced food to all consumers” in Little Falls’ historic downtown. Your donation to this Store Opening Project brings the community one step closer to realizing that vision.

In 2017, the cooperative purchased the Victor Mall in downtown Little Falls for its planned grocery store, the Purple Carrot Market.  In addition to its strong attributes as a store location, the site was chosen to serve an area that has low-access to healthy foods and to become a catalyst for downtown economic revitalization.  The Store Opening Project will revitalize the building into a vibrant, accessible grocery store.

In addition to structural changes to the building’s north entrance and remodeling of 4,500 square-feet of interior space, the building’s mechanical and electrical systems will be upgraded to meet the needs for store operation.  The Store Opening Project also includes funds for the purchase of equipment, inventory, pre-opening marketing, and staffing.

On March 17, 2025, Purple Carrot Market launched a Community Investment Campaign to raise $800,000 by May 23, 2025.  These funds, combined with grant awards that it has received and continues to pursue, will allow the cooperative to meet the $1.7M project costs. Raising these funds by Memorial Day will allow the Market to work on getting bids for the construction work and equipment over the summer so that we can begin renovation work in the fall of 2025. 

Your donation will help the Market reach this goal.  When you invest in your local food co-op, you also invest in our local farmers and our community. Join the Purple Carrot Market in making this vision a reality!

As its fiscal sponsor, the Cooperative Development Fund of CDS will use your gift to benefit the Purple Carrot Market in a manner consistent with the Fund's charitable purpose to support the wise use and development of cooperatively owned businesses.