Rumblings at Gowanus Whole Foods Site
There’s been little action at the Whole Foods site on Third Street and Third Avenue during the past few months, but now workers are in the process of demolishing a vacant warehouse at 190 Third Street. The building is the next-to-last remaining structure Whole Foods needs to level before it has its entire 2.1-acre footprint,…
There’s been little action at the Whole Foods site on Third Street and Third Avenue during the past few months, but now workers are in the process of demolishing a vacant warehouse at 190 Third Street. The building is the next-to-last remaining structure Whole Foods needs to level before it has its entire 2.1-acre footprint, which stretches to the east side of the Gowanus Canal, clear. What’s not clear, however, is the status of environmental clean up on the toxically challenged parcel, or when actual building is slated to begin. Whole Foods previously claimed the 68,000-square-foot store would open in spring 2008, but the supermarket’s website presently has a vague opening date to be announced attached to the store description. When we asked how you felt about the grocer’s impending arrival in Brooklyn a couple months ago, the majority of respondents were looking forward to it, albeit with some reservations about the scale and environmental impact. It’ll be interesting to see if public enthusiasm starts to wane if the project gets bogged down for too long.
Poll: People Generally Psyched For Whole Foods [Brownstoner] GMAP
Whole Foods Facing an Uphill Battle in Gowanus [Brownstoner]
I know this is late but you have no idea the value of Trader Joe’s over Whole Foods. I currently live in DC but am relocating to downtown Brooklyn once my condo in Bell Tell Lofts is completed. I currently have immediate access to both TJ’s & Whole Foods. In comparison Whole Foods is a rip off!!! At Trader Joe’s a $100 usually gives me five bags of quality groceries and they are quality. At Whole Foods I’m lucky if I get two bags of quality groceries. The difference you cannot compare.
Whole Foods has just filed their zoning with the DOB last week. It was “disapproved” by the plan examiner on 8/20.
The demo permits are simpler to get, which is why we see the demo going on just now.
The real progress that can be seen on the site is the good work of nature.
I really dont like whole foods. There were 2 in the town I used to live in and I didn’t go to either.
its gonna look lame too.
Whole Foods will never open on this site – bet on it
there you go!
that was funny!
But the use of the word “um” is not funny.
(I know, I know, I don’t understand this because I don’t have the sophisticated sense of humor that you do – so, um, sorry!).
maybe because some people have a sense of humor.
Why do so many people prefer the work “um” when posting.
Example: “Um, that’s not the way things are.”
Why not just, um, make your point without the word “um”?
11.44, the short answer is Fourth Ave condo owners, provided they materialize in the current market. As for Trader Joes, the two (TJ and WF) coexist quite merrily in Union Square, and the two Brooklyn outposts are much farther apart. WF’s management is probably a little distracted by the Wild Oats merger – how hard they push for the Gowanus project to go forward probably depends on how well the LES branch (a new condo-driven play) is doing – word is it’s a little, um, quiet.