Trader Joe’s wants to open a store in Denver’s Platt Park neighborhood that would look different from its others in the region.

The grocery chain has applied for a retail liquor license for a planned store at the northwest corner of Pearl Street and Louisiana Avenue, according to a notice posted at the site.

The site at 567 E. Louisiana Ave. is home to a shuttered 7-Eleven. But Trader Joe’s does not plan to occupy that building — or a standalone structure at all, as its other Denver stores are.

Instead, the grocer plans to take retail space on the ground floor of an apartment building slated to be developed by Denver-based Kentro Group, which has yet to break ground.

Kentro, which is led by the Balafas brothers, developed the Trader Joe’s building at 750 N. Colorado Blvd. in Denver.

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