Pack up the caramels, the nut clusters and the turtles, wrap carefully the orange and huckleberry sticks, the seafoam and the fudge.

Gosanko Chocolates is about to hit the rocky road, truffle its retail sale operation a couple blocks north and settle its sweets on the ground floor of the 1 Main building, just across North Division Street and east of Auburn City Hall.

“We’re moving over to 1 Main to be more involved with downtown, and we needed some more space over here, so by going over there we can really go after the retail market in the downtown core of our hometown,” co-owner and chief chocolatier Ronnie Roberts explained Monday.

Roberts said he and his crew will continue to make their confections at the present headquarters at 116 A St. SE.

Roberts said even he doesn’t know the precise date of the move, only that it’ll happen before the end of the year. The present site will continue to sell goodies until Valentine’s Day.

“When 1 Main was built, I had an idea of moving over there,” Roberts said.

Established in 1987 as a family-owned-and-operated company, Gosanko Chocolate is today a premier leader of unique, highly detailed, solid-molded chocolate, and a maker of gourmet confections.

Success has allowed Gosanko to add retail stores in the Kitsap Mall, Seattle’s Pike Place Market and The Outlet Collection | Seattle.

At 810 square feet, the future sweet spot will be more compact than the present locale, but it will offer everything Gosanko makes and carries, plus eight different flavors of ice cream, a full espresso bar and blended drinks.

Something the new store will have that none of Gosanko’s other retail outlets do — a walk-up window on Main Street, where customers may order an ice cream, a latte, a coffee or, of course, get their chocolate fix.

Out in the lobby customers will be able to relax at high boy and low boy tables, while under umbrellas out on the sidewalk they can park themselves at tables and chairs, making “a cool place for … people to enjoy,” Roberts said.

“I don’t know if we’ll have it when we open, but we’ll be doing sandwiches , soups and stuff like that there, too. So it will be kind of a chocolate-deli-espresso-fudge sort of place,” Roberts said. “It’ll be cool.”

Roberts expects to add about 10 jobs.

“We’re trying hard. We’re a small, family-owned company. To us, it’s all about customer service and working with our community,” Roberts said.