Porto's Bakery plans to open site in March
After a lengthy delay, the popular Porto's Bakery & Cafe chain is planning to open a location at the Northridge Fashion Center in March, according to the company.
Jennifer Wells, the company's representative, said the bakery's team is “working really hard” to open the bakery by the end of March.
“We don't have a solid date but, it is looking like it will either be
the third or fourth week of March,” she said.
The opening of the Cuban bakery was slated for January but took longer than expected.
Porto's held a job fair Friday, hiring positions for all bakeries, including the one in Northridge.
The bakery will move into the 24,150-squarefoott building with an outdoor patio formerly occupied by the Sears auto center at 19467 W. Nordhoff St.
Initially, the company planned to demolish the former center and build its own structure but scrapped the plans and decided to keep the building.
Porto's was launched in the 1970s by Roseanne Raul Porto, who immigrated from Cuba with her children and opened a bakery in Echo Park, selling famous cakes and Papa Rellena, widely known as potato balls.
The Northridge bakery will be the company's sixth location in Southern California, which also includes shops in Glendale, Burbank, Downey, West Covina and Buena Park.