A Metropolitan Market, a full-service grocery store, looks to open in downtown Sammamish, on 228th Avenue across from Eastside Catholic School.

The market will be located within The Village, a yet-to-be developed area that will include a walkable, dense, neighborhood oriented, mixed-use developments located on almost 6.5 acres within the zoning for the Sammamish Town Center.

“We are extremely excited about coming to the Sammamish market,” Metropolitan Market CEO Todd Korman said during a Sammamish Chamber of Commerce meeting last week.

This will be the seventh store to open in the greater Seattle area.

The market will be between 17,000-48,000 square feet. It will employ more than 800 people when it opens at the end of 2016, Korman said.

“We’ll buy all of our products straight from the source,” he said.

The store contracts with 550 vendors  from Washington and Oregon to insure high-quality products.

Korman boasts the market will support various hot products, prepared in house, like freshly baked cookies, a seafood salad bar or pizza sold by the slice. He said the company had sent employees to different parts of the world to master the technique of cooking these various foods.

The Metropolitan Market will be the anchor of The Village it’s constructed within, Principal of TRF Pacific LLC Tim Russell said.

TRF Pacific, the developer, is still in the process of working the city and finalizing design plans.

The Village is slated to include 95,000 to 115,000 square feet of commercial space and from 120 to 159 multi-family housing units, according to TRF Pacific LLC’s development plan it submitted to the city.

Ideally, multiple restaurants would occupy the commercial space, as well as a medical clinic, Russell said.

Various trails and paths will allow people to easily make their way through The Village. There will be elevators so people can easily scale the hill the development will occupy.

The Village plans to capture rainwater, which it will use to irrigate the landscaping.

The Metropolitan Market’s front door will be located on the west side of the building, not facing 228th Avenue. The market’s parking lot will also be tucked behind the building to minimize its view from the main corridor. There will be additional parking on top of the market’s roof.

The Village will be constructed across the block, between Fourth Street and down to East Main Street.