One of two Portland locations of the Food Front Cooperative Grocery will close later this month, the store announced Wednesday.

The Hillsdale location at 6344 Southwest Capitol Hwy will shut its doors Dec. 30 due to “longstanding debt that the Co-op was not able to address over the course of a number of years,” the store said in a Facebook post.

The other location in Northwest Portland will remain open and some workers will be kept on to work there, while others will face layoffs.

The co-op said their landlord at the Southwest location had worked with them diligently and plans to keep the location as a retail grocer, with an announcement coming in the new year about what will occupy the space in the future.

-- Kale Williams

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