A business that was supposed to serve Williamsburg’s Schaefer Landing seems all washed up. The photo of the eviction notice above, which is taped to a Schaefer Landing storefront, comes via a tipster who writes that The tenant, Aphrodite Cleaners, has never moved in – doesn’t appear to have done any work on the place, and is now being served with eviction papers. So far, there is no retail at Schaeffer that I know of. Far as we know, the main, 9,500-square-foot retail space at Schaefer is still on the market; more than a year ago, the project’s original brokers said they wanted to rent it to a supermarket. The apparent loss of the dry cleaning company comes as the development faces four months without water taxi service, an amenity that Shaefer’s developers say was an important marketing tool for the condo. It played a big role in closing a lot of our deals, BFC Partners principal/Schaefer developer Donald A. Capoccia told the Times.
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