It's Official: Whole Foods to Open Gowanus Location in December
Whole Foods has set an official opening date for its Gowanus store: December 17, Gothamist reported. The grocery on 3rd Street and 3rd Avenue will have a rooftop garden, a pub, and a plaza overlooking the canal, as we’ve already mentioned. Are you looking forward to the opening? Gowanus Whole Foods Announces Opening Date [Gothamist]…
Whole Foods has set an official opening date for its Gowanus store: December 17, Gothamist reported. The grocery on 3rd Street and 3rd Avenue will have a rooftop garden, a pub, and a plaza overlooking the canal, as we’ve already mentioned. Are you looking forward to the opening?
Gowanus Whole Foods Announces Opening Date [Gothamist]
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Totally – that and Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn is making the way for bigger-named retail. If no one in Park Slope/Boerum Hill/etc really owns cars, put a Bed Bath and Beyond in this parking lot instead – that’s my only point!
or a Container Store! (I hope they’re reading….)
@bowlofdicks – Sure. I asked how many people in the neighborhoods surrounding Gowanus have cars and then used some personal examples, you’re right. But there’s actual data on how many people have cars in the surrounding neighborhoods, which support my personal behavioral examples. You claimed that most people in those neighborhoods are driving to get groceries. Unless they are renting a car every time they go, that just isn’t the truth and there other ways than just personal examples (my own included!) to tell if whether or not it’s the truth.
Also, that last statement isn’t anecdotal – they’re just the truth. Film Biz and Brooklyn Boulders DO exist in the neighborhood. More businesses of that nature are opening in the neighborhood and there aren’t parking lots attached to them.
“Also, Jane Jacobs wrote a whole book about this stuff, so my obsession ain’t nothing. 🙂 ”
but it sure was anecdotal….
” I walk into Gowanus from Carroll Gardens to visit bars, dine and shop”
“The Trader Joe’s on Court isn’t that much closer of a walk from my apartment than this will be and I’ve bought groceries there on several occasions and walked them home”
“I go to the Met on Smith far more frequently, because it’s a closer walk”
“Gowanus itself is growing into an area that is starting to have plenty of great things to walk to: Brooklyn Boulders, Film Biz”
Also, Jane Jacobs wrote a whole book about this stuff, so my obsession ain’t nothing. 🙂
Funny, that’s entirely my point with you – I thought the issue at hand was whether or not that parking lot is a good use of space for the neighborhood, not if I’m “obsessed” with them or not.
And you’d love a Mr. HanCOCK to be obsessed with you.
‘Where the neighborhood is going?’
it’s gonna be the suburb of Park Slope, Boreum Hill, Carroll Gardens, etc. More chain stores. Please, please, a Bed Bath and Beyond.
Nah, I’m not sad that it’s zoned for commercial – like I said above, I think Whole Foods makes perfect sense for the neighborhood. I’m sad that commercial like something like Whole Foods is zoned to have a parking lot twice the size next to it.
Well aware of the history of Gowanus. More interested (as I think we should be!) in where the neighborhood is going.