StreetLevel: Schermerhorn Supermarket Deal Falls Through
Well, this one’s not a crowd pleaser. Turns out plans to put a 12,000-sf supermarket into the biggest ground-floor space at the State Renaissance Court building have been tabled. The building’s owners have instead cut up the space and rented half of it to the Red Cross; the other 6,000 square feet are still on…
Well, this one’s not a crowd pleaser. Turns out plans to put a 12,000-sf supermarket into the biggest ground-floor space at the State Renaissance Court building have been tabled. The building’s owners have instead cut up the space and rented half of it to the Red Cross; the other 6,000 square feet are still on the market along with four other smaller (around 1,000 sf) storefronts. Those small spaces are being eyed by “neighborhood businesses” like liquor stores and pizza parlors, says State Renaissance Court developer Hesky Brahimy. The would-be supermarket owner was a retail novice, says Brahimy. The developer still hopes to attract some sort of gourmet grocery to the remaining large space in the building. “A grocery is what’s most needed around here,” says Brahimy, though “we’ll entertain all offers.”
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a “retail novice”? Originally the rumors were of a national gourmet chain moving into that space. I wonder what chain would be considered a “novice”?
That’s terrible. This site needs active retail space, not a dead storefront (particularly one for a homophobic organization).
people, a 12,000 sf supermarket would be doomed before it opens. Not big enough. thats why only a novice was interested.
THe Red Cross hmmmm
I’m not at all surprised. The so-called Downtown revival has been overblown by politicians and developers who are in bed with them. Only anything-for-a-buck brokers and gullible buyers who fancy themselves visionaries are silly enough to believe the hype.
It would probably be easier for the Red Cross to conduct blood drives, and give out information and aid, if they had a street level presense. One might be more inclined to give blood if you walked by and saw a drive, as opposed to going into a building, past security, up the elevator, etc.
shocker
That sucks.
Why does the Red Cross need streetlevel retail space?