Scoop: Sprouts to permanently close Will Vill store Sept. 4

The latest: In an email to Axios Boulder, Sprouts officials confirmed the store at 2950 Baseline Road will close Sept. 4.

• No reason was cited for the change in plans, and no details about what employees' futures was provided.

"Closing a store is never an easy decision, and we are deeply grateful to the customers who have supported the Baseline Road location over the years," an email from Sprouts read.

State of play: The Baseline location, opened in 2009, will continue to operate for regular hours until the closure.

• Sprouts has another store about two miles away at 2525 Arapahoe Ave.

Context: The Williams Village II redevelopment will add more than 400 housing units to the area.

• Sprouts was the only location to publicly announce it planned reopen in the new development, while developers also invited Dark Horse to return but that business declined.

What we're watching: Developers said they wanted businesses to occupy the bottom floors of the Williams Village site, but it now appears those will be new tenants.

Editor's note: This is a developing story