Locavore has announced it will take on a second location in the Glasgow city centre. 

The popular South Side ethical grocery store will be taking over the space which is currently inhabited by The Project Cafe on Renfrew Street. 

The cafe, which has been running for six years, announced its plans to close in December 2019. 

It will cease trading on February 29 and Locavore's second location will open in the space on March 9. 

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The Project Cafe announced the change on their Facebook. A statement reads: "Our gratitude goes out to Reuben and the rest of Locavore who have come forward to embrace the cafe and will now lead it onwards on its journey.

"We are also grateful for all of your support and kind encouraging words about the cafe and what it means to you!

"We are excited and curious about what this future might look like for the cafe, and hope that you are too!"

Directors of the cafe acknowledged Locavore embodies the same community engagement which the cafe maintained for the past six years. 

Locavore aims to provide organic, sustainable and zero waste options to its customers.

In a statement announcing the plans to take over the space, Locavore's managing director Reuben Chesters, wrote: "It feels right!

"We’re pleased to be able to step in to keep something great going in the city centre.

"This is especially true as we have so many shared connections with The Project Cafe; they have been collaborators back when we took on the property together for a shared pop up many years ago, and since then have been one of our best wholesale customers, and have inspired our own cafe menu."

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Staff working at The Project Cafe will join Locavore and will carry on working at the location without major changes to the menu or layout. 

Mr Chesters added: "We’d like to say a huge thanks to The Project Cafe directors, Dorian, Eilidh and Tiril, for passing the baton to us and for all the hard work they, and their team have done to build the cafe, to make it what it is for their customers, the local community and the sustainable food movement in Glasgow."