Drugstore or Supermarket on the Horizon for 3rd Avenue

Awesome spot for super market! I just dont see a supermarket commanding the type of rents a 10.5 Mil parcel would justify.

Posted by: guest at January 21, 2008 11:44 AM

if it is a supermarket, will it employ the people of the gowanus housing project across the street?

Posted by: guest at January 21, 2008 12:36 PM

With that high price tag, and the phantom menace of the Whole Foods a few blocks away, who would open a grocery store?

Posted by: guest at January 21, 2008 1:15 PM

If it's over 10,000 square feet, it can't be a supermarket legally under city zoning rules intended to keep people in the projects eating unhealthy food purchased at inflated prices from bodegas.

Posted by: guest at January 21, 2008 2:58 PM

please don't let it be a Duane Reade - that is the world's worst pharmacy. Can we get a Boots chemist? You know, a clean pharmacy with helpful staff and products you'd actually want to buy.

Posted by: guest at January 21, 2008 3:07 PM

Yeah, the location fits right in with the Boots image. I'll have what you're smoking, 3:07.

Posted by: guest at January 21, 2008 4:24 PM

I love this area.hands down a good investment

Posted by: guest at January 21, 2008 4:54 PM

a slightly less wise investment than setting $10.5m on fire.

Posted by: guest at January 21, 2008 7:00 PM

c'mon give us a Boots chemist over a Duane Reade. why do we have to get something shitty? I know, what about a huge Urban Outfitters.

Posted by: guest at January 21, 2008 7:23 PM

I live two blocks from there. We are not amenities-starved at all. I'd guess 90% of the neighborhood has wheels and it's 5 minutes drive to the Slope, 8 minutes drive to Fairway. By walking, 5 minutes to organic market on Court and Union, 10 mins to the coop.

Posted by: guest at January 21, 2008 10:12 PM

who's the idiot that says that the people in the housing projects have to eat unhealthy bodega food??

so they can't walk a few blocks to a grocery store like the rest of us?

i've got a HIKE to an ok grocery store and i live in prime park slope.

this is nyc. you can find cheap, healthy food anywhere if you try.

Posted by: guest at January 22, 2008 11:28 AM

What do you meen, there is a 10,000 sf.ft limit to food markets?

Whole Foods is planning a 70,000 sq.ft. building. Is WF not a supermarket by city rules?

Posted by: guest at January 22, 2008 7:06 PM