Update on the Smith: Retail, Move-Ins Coming
The end (beginning?) is in sight for the much-delayed hotel/condo project the Smith, and the building’s ground-floor retail spaces have just hit the market. For over a year the development’s marketers have said the space will probably be filled by a high-end grocer like Gourmet Garage or Dean & Deluca, and the broker in charge…
The end (beginning?) is in sight for the much-delayed hotel/condo project the Smith, and the building’s ground-floor retail spaces have just hit the market. For over a year the development’s marketers have said the space will probably be filled by a high-end grocer like Gourmet Garage or Dean & Deluca, and the broker in charge of leasing the space says that’s still true. “We’re hoping to get something like a Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s,” says Petar Videv of A&I Broadway Realty, apparently unaware of the latter’s plans just up the block. Videv says construction on the project should be finished sometime in January, and that the hotel and condo are expected to open then. While it seems doubtful that Trader Joe’s would take space so close to its planned store at Atlantic and Court, or that Whole Foods would be satisfied with 7,800 square feet, it does seem to be a reasonable fit for a store like Gourmet Garage. What would you like to see here?
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Live in Cobble Hill.
Haven’t owned a car in 14 years.
Don’t have a dope habit.
Don’t have any brats. Don’t want any kids.
The post office idea is SO impossible considering there a post office 5 blocks down Atlantic or 6 blocks into the Heights.
There is a preschool shortage in the area but that location is painfully far from any kind of park or playground.
If you want outside the box, how about someplace to listen to live music or play pool without having to have a drink but, alas, the space is too small.
Oooh, someone woke up a little cranky this morning…
Why does everything have to be a food store??? There are plenty of places to shop on Atlantic and Court Streets. Of course you all have cars, so what part of Fairway don’t you understand??? You lazy, suburban plastic bag toting freaks. Go back home to Jersey. This space could use a post office!!! or a methodone clinic or a day care for all your pampered germy little brats. Think beyond the box, people. Go away!!!!!
putting to the side for a minute what is likely to come here and what is not likely to come here, i have to say that a GG feels right for this space and location. it would be great to see that happen.
I walk by this building twice a day on my way to and from work and it is going to be 100% better than the parking lot that used to be there. I hope that they put a mailbox back on the corner and reestablish the bus stop in this block.
As for retail: Because of the hotel and parking garage this would be a prime location for a rent-a-car location (Hertz? Avis is two blocks away at Courthouse and Enterprise is a few blocks away.) Ever since Better Buggy closed (remember them?) we’ve been short on car rentals. This would also be a good location for an office supply store like a small Staples or a copy center, such as Kinko’s. As a neighborhood resident, we could use both.
Food: The size of the storefront would probably be good for a Garden of Eden and it is far enough away from the one on Montague.
the big question remains are they going to reopen the House of D. across the street and how will that effect things.
how bout balducci’s?
Citarella, please.
I’m just glad there is an end in site to this construction project.
Boymeldump.