Over the Memorial Day weekend Community Builders of Kansas City celebrated the grand reopening of Blue Parkway Sun Fresh that it began operating a year ago. Members of the community turned out to commemorate the occasion and take in music from KMJK 107.3’s Darron Story, store promotions and demos, food, prizes and even vaccinations.
The two-day celebration marked the official kickoff of new and upgraded services and the upcoming remodel of the store. Improvements either currently underway or planned include physical upgrades, updated pricing, additional associate training and new products based on community feedback. In addition, the event served as the launch of Sun Fresh’s HomeGrown program that will highlight various local vendors offering locally made products such as homemade salsa, cobbler, coffee and candied apples.
Last May, CBKC announced that it would become the owner / operator of the Blue Parkway Sun Fresh, one of the few full-service supermarkets east of Prospect Avenue, following the retirement of the current operator. Taking on the owner/operator role of the Blue Parkway Sun Fresh is in line with CBKC’s vision to strengthen families and transform communities and broadens its urban Eat Well/Live Well platform. Doing so also assures that the community’s money stays in the community, recirculating the investment among the urban residents and workers it is meant to benefit.
CBKC is committed to making Sun Fresh a place where the community can count on a wide variety of healthy, competitively priced products, convenient services and knowledgeable, friendly staff.