Streetlevel: No Boar's Head for 117 Court Street After All
Last November, reigning retail broker Tim King set off a flurry of speculation when he announced at the Brooklyn Real Estate Roundtable that a high-end food retailer had signed a least for the space at 117 Court Street at a rate of $125 per foot. Much guesswork ensued, until someone on Chowhound authoritatively declared that…
Last November, reigning retail broker Tim King set off a flurry of speculation when he announced at the Brooklyn Real Estate Roundtable that a high-end food retailer had signed a least for the space at 117 Court Street at a rate of $125 per foot. Much guesswork ensued, until someone on Chowhound authoritatively declared that the lessee was none other than Boar’s Head. Now that’s looking like a bum tip: A sign that just went up in the window reveals a “fine delicatessen,” called F. Martinella, is on the way. A recorded message says they’re hiring for all positions, offering “competitive salaries” and benefits to full and part-time employees, and that they’re an equal opportunity employer and a drug-free workplace. Maybe they have good roast beef, too?
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In 1949, Truman enacted the Fair Deal, The People’s Republic of China was formed, and Newfoundland joined Canada. They may be in on this deli deal as well.
“Boar’s Head is a deli meat supplier.
When a deli sells excusively Boar’s Head products, they get to advertise the Boar’s Head logo in their window.”
They have started retail chains. Maybe they’ve decided that there’s too much confusion in the re-branding and are calling it something else…
I have a suspicion that F Martinella is affiliated with Lassen & Hennigs on Montague. If you check their webpage it states that they were established in 1949. Mystery solved.
I have a suspicion that F Martinella is affiliated with Lassen & Hennigs on Montague. If you check their webpage it atates that they were established in 1949. Mystery solved.
“A recorded message says they’re hiring for all positions, offering “competitive salaries” and benefits to full and part-time employees, and that they’re an equal opportunity employer and a drug-free workplace.”
Sounds very corporate to me.
liturgical- at least for Marty Markowitz
zinka might be right…IronBalls…I remeber the sign up there before using the Boars Head name and it did somewhat suggest that this was going to be some kind of Boars Head outlet. It just looked like something different from a Boars Head logo used in conjunction with a new retailer.
What do you all think the F. stands for? Talk amongst yourselves.
Isn’t the idea that this is owned by Boar’s Head? It’s a fake-old cutesy deli, right?
that’s odd that the name doesn’t leave a google trace – i passed by the sign last week and it said Since 1948 or something around there, which begs the question, where?