Beloved Magnolia Bakery, 5 other businesses coming to Foothill Village this year
by Carter Williams ksl · KSL.comKEY TAKEAWAYS
- Magnolia Bakery will open its second Utah location in Foothill Village by end of 2026.
- Five other businesses, including JD Flannel Donuts & Coffee, will join the area this year.
- Foothill Village's facelift has helped attract new businesses to the state.
SALT LAKE CITY — An iconic New York City bakery's second Utah location will come to Utah's capital city later this year.
Magnolia Bakery intends to open within a 1,500-square-foot space in Foothill Village by the fourth quarter of 2026, according to Asana Partners, which owns the East Bench complex near 1400 South and Foothill Drive.
The bakery, famous for its sweets, opened its first Utah location in Holladay earlier this month.
"I think Utah is such a family environment and community here, and that's what we attract," Bobbie Lloyd, the chief brand officer and chief baking officer, told Deseret News at the time.
Its second location will join five other new tenants opening at Foothill Village in 2026. The pilates studio Solidcore and Utah-based Hawaiian food chain Mo' Bettahs already opened earlier this year.
Meanwhile, JD Flannel Donuts & Coffee, a California business, opened its first Utah location at the shopping center on June 3.
Zao Asian Cafe, another Utah-based chain, plans to open a location in the area in the third quarter of 2026, while hyperbaric oxygen therapy chain MD Hyperbaric also plans to open a location in the shopping center by the end of this year.
The announcement on Tuesday comes as Foothill Village, which first opened in 1954, has undergone a facelift that began shortly after Asana Partners acquired the 280,000-square-foot shopping center in 2021.
The project is slated to end next month, with a better connection between the shopping center and nearby Curtis Park. But the changes helped draw in new faces, like Slice House by Tony Gemignani and Flower Child, serving as the first Utah locations for each brand.
More than 50 businesses now have locations in the area.
In a statement, Ashley McDonald, senior director of development for the company, said she believes recent remodels and Salt Lake City's general growth have helped turn it into a more desirable business location.
"We continue to see strong interest from community-centric retailers drawn to these changes," she added.
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Carter Williams
Carter Williams is a reporter for KSL. He covers Salt Lake City, statewide transportation issues, outdoors, the environment and weather. He is a graduate of Southern Utah University.