GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- Gordon Food Service announced Tuesday it will open a new small-format, city grocery store in September that will serve Heritage Hill, the Medical Mile and Northeast Grand Rapids.

Planned to go into the ground floor of the new Diamond Place project at 1003 Michigan St. NE, the store will feature in-person shopping and offer online ordering with in-store pickup service for restaurant and food service customers.

According to a press release from the company, the new Gordon Food Service location is inspired by big city neighborhood grocers who make the most of tight spaces. The store will include fresh produce, meat and seafood, as well as a deli, bakery, olive bar and gelato bar.

The Grand Rapids store will be the second Gordon Food Service location to offer lighter daily grocery options. The first is in Cascade Township.

"What is a little more unique about Cascade and then this store is that in the past, you would come to our stores more for parties and events and you didn't necessarily do your grocery shopping at our stores," Marketing Manager at Gordon Food Service Stores Mark Dempsey said. Now, you can shop for a party, you can shop for your business or you can shop for dinner that night."

The Gordon Food Service store announcement comes shortly after Meijer announced its plan to open a small urban store in Grand Rapids, which will be called Bridge Street Market.

Like Gordon Food Service, Bridge Street Market will also open early this fall. It will go up at the corner of Bridge Street and Seward Avenue.

The two city grocery stores will be about two miles apart.

"We're excited to expand this concept to Northeast Grand Rapids, the Medical Mile, Heritage Hill and bring them truly a community neighborhood grocery store in the city that can be a hub of their daily lives," Dempsey said.

Diamond Place is a $42 million, four-story development at the northeast corner of Michigan Street and Diamond Avenue along the Medical Mile corridor. The new store is the anchor retail tenant.

"Small intimate settings are where people want to shop today. We think we have developed a concept that has everything you're going to need for a great dinner tonight, in a convenient location with a fun, friendly shopping experience," Tim Grabar, president of Gordon Food Service Stores, said in the release.

Gordon Food Service was started in 1897 and is now the largest family business in the food service industry. The company has more than 170 locations in the United States.