Streetlevel: A New Supermarket for Schermerhorn
A sign just went up saying (well, exclaiming really) that one of the ground floor retail spaces in the State Renaissance Court has been rented. According to a tenant, who spoke to a building worker, the 11,500-square-foot retail space on the ground floor is slated to be occupied by a supermarket. The source of the…
A sign just went up saying (well, exclaiming really) that one of the ground floor retail spaces in the State Renaissance Court has been rented. According to a tenant, who spoke to a building worker, the 11,500-square-foot retail space on the ground floor is slated to be occupied by a supermarket. The source of the rumor didn’t know which one, though. Anyone heard anything? Seems like something this neighborhood could really use. It should also bring some much-needed streetlevel life to this stretch. GMAP
A Red Cross would be horrible for the neighborhood. I mean, it’s a good organization, don’t get me wrong, but retail spaces are meant for retail tenants. It adds foot traffic and makes the place more livable. On top of that – retail space is much more expensive than office space in the neighborhood – it would be unwise for a non-profit to shell out the money for retail in lieu of the much less expensive office rents in the surrounding area.
Even one of the smaller spaces I wouldn’t know what the Red Cross would want with it, but who knows. I’d take a Starbucks (and I hate Starbucks) over non-retail uses of the retail space in this building. (But maybe we can coerce Cafe Grumpy to open up a Downtown Brooklyn location in that building.)
I live in the building & had also heard the red cross had rented the space. Even though a supermarket would be convenient, i’m concerned about even more insects & vermin invading the area and possibly invading the building. With all the construction taking place in the area critters are everywhere!
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At least one of the spaces in 200 Schermerhorn is rented to the Red Cross. Heard it from the building mgt.
yes fairway delivers
not sure of the fee but its is FREE if you spend more than 100
hands down the best market in brooklyn
none of these other DUMPS even come close
7:46, you and your sad, dying vision of “brooklyn” should come to arkansas for my mama’s roast pig.
maybe it’ll be a food emporium? food emporiums are generally nice…
9:12, not a joke. If you disagree, please say so like an adult.
Manhattan is not the “chain capital of the world,” thankfully, though it far more than it used to be. Most of America is entirely chains, family-owned businesses are disappearing. New York probably still has far less chain mass retailers per capita than the rest of the US. Manhattan has the density to justify some chain stores — but very few supermarkets, which carry a relatively high proportion of pershiable goods and therefore require a higher frequency of restocking. Target in Brooklyn can sell frozen and canned goods. But forget fresh food (not that they do anywhere). That’s why we don’t have the big, mega-supermarkets like the rest of the country where highways are broad and land is cheap. If they build one here, it would have to serve a much larger number of people and be mobbed and probably not worth going to. For the record, I prefer living without the big chains and having neighborhood stores, that’s why I live here. But this city could still use more supermarkets. Notice that poor people take car services to Pathmark to shop because they have no where else to go. That’s not right.
so why exactly is manhattan becoming the chain capital of the world, 8:59?
more room than brooklyn to pull up those 18 wheelers?
labor costs lower than brooklyn?
real estate less expensive?
i’m hoping your comment was a joke.
Oh ok 8:38 ,any idea when it’s slated to open ?