By Sara Beth Williams–
Progress is being made on the interior of a new bakery with plans to open soon in Citrus Heights.
Nothing Bundt Cakes is planning to fill a vacant location in the Sunrise Village shopping center and hopes to open sometime between October of this year and early 2026, according to an update from Tiffany Clement with MerloneGeier.
A visit to the site on Saturday found Fuesz Mechanical owner Travis Fuesz on site working on the interior of the future bakery. Fuesz confirmed the space will be a bakery and that he’s currently adding all the duct work for the HVAC system, and all the mechanical connections should be completed by next week.
Site plans show the bakery occupying a vacant space in the same building as Little Caesars. The 2000-square-foot space is the largest of the three spaces in the building.
Since the revitalization of the shopping center at the corner of Madison Avenue and Sunrise Boulevard, the plaza has seen multiple new tenants, including Club Studio Fitness, which opened in September 2024, and Amazon Fresh, which opened in November 2024.
Popular frozen yogurt chain Pinkberry is also slated to open in the same shopping center “any day now” according to Clement. International juice shop Juice Time is also expected to open sometime this year.
Grocery Outlet also has submitted plans to the city of Citrus Heights to fill the vacant building that was once a former Rite Aid. Grocery Outlet’s name is not yet listed in the leasing site plan. MerloneGeier did not have any updates on progress or a potential opening date for the future grocery store.
The shopping center also lost its major anchor tenant, JOANN, which closed hundreds of locations after filing for bankruptcy.
Nothing Bundt Cakes calls itself the “Number 1 specialty cake company in the U.S.” according to the company’s website. The first Nothing Bundt Cakes bakery opened in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1997. The chain has more than 600 locations, including five other shops in the Sacramento region. A Citrus Heights location is not yet listed on the bakery’s website.
