Patrick J. Burns

Patrick J. Burns is an accomplished business leader in the real estate, food retail, food and beverage, and hospitality industries with over 30 years of experience building a series of retail supermarkets and shopping centers, managing food service for upscale restaurants and catering facilities, and operating hotel establishments throughout the Greater Philadelphia area. As an accomplished corporate strategist and marketer, his vision and expertise in business performance and new business development have created notable enterprise growth of sales and profits in these sectors. He has been recognized by the Obama administration as being a champion of healthy food access and economic development, and his achievements have been featured in a variety of local, national and industry news outlets including Good Morning America, USA Today and the New York Times.

His most notable accomplishments include the development and operation of supermarkets in underserved areas in and around Philadelphia including the first “Fresh Grocer” concept store in 2001. In 2005, he opened The Fresh Grocer at 56th & Chestnut Street, which then was the largest supermarket in West Philadelphia. In 2009, Patrick eradicated Philadelphia’s two largest food deserts with the development of two new Fresh Grocer supermarkets at the Shoppes at La Salle on Chew Ave and in the historic Progress Plaza Shopping Center on North Broad Street. With a steadfast commitment to bringing first-class stores into communities that need them most, Patrick has continuously expanded and enhanced his supermarket footprint under both The Fresh Grocer and ShopRite banners.

Patrick has also successfully developed a number of retail shopping centers throughout the Greater Philadelphia area, all of which contain supermarket anchor tenants along with other quality retail franchise stores.