King Soopers corporate affairs manager Jessica Trowbridge talks about the resilience of the Boulder community following the massacre on March 22 that killed 10 people at the company s southside Boulder store. She announced the company plans to redesign and rebuild the store, which has remained closed since the shooting, with a goal of reopening in late fall.
King Soopers will redesign and renovate its southside Boulder store with a goal to reopen in late fall, the company’s corporate affairs manager, Jessica Trowbridge, announced in a news conference Wednesday.
The store has remained closed since the March 22 shooting that killed 10 people. But in late April, survivors and families of victims had an opportunity to go into the store if they chose to help with healing.
Fourteen semi-trucks this size, Trowbridge said. We re moving the whole grocery store to Community Food Share.
Kim Da Silva is the executive director of the nonprofit, which offers food directly to struggling families and to 40 partner agencies in Boulder and Broomfield counties with a mission of ending hunger. For us, this is the largest single donation that has hit our floors in 40 years, Da Silva said. That food could ve easily ended up in a landfill.
Instead, Trowbridge said the donation will generate more than 10 million meals in honor of the 10 who died and those who survived. Having this food do good and truly, truly honor these victims, their families and our associates, Trowbridge said. When you think about COVID and what we ve been through, hunger is on the rise in our community and 10 million meals can really make an impact.