Toren Lands Upscale Supermarket Tenant
This is what Downtown Brooklyn has been waiting for! Toren, the 240-unit, SOM-designed tower at the corner of Myrtle and Flatbush Avenues has landed a retail tenant for its 11,000-square-foot retail space. The market does not have a name yet, reported Crain’s, but is slated to be “upscale and eco-friendly.” It will be the flagship…
This is what Downtown Brooklyn has been waiting for! Toren, the 240-unit, SOM-designed tower at the corner of Myrtle and Flatbush Avenues has landed a retail tenant for its 11,000-square-foot retail space. The market does not have a name yet, reported Crain’s, but is slated to be “upscale and eco-friendly.” It will be the flagship location for a new high-end supermarket brand being launched by the Goris family, which currently has a bunch of other supermarkets in the New York City area. Presumably all the other residential developers that have sprung up in the area are cheering the news too, as it adds a major selling point (or at least plugs a major services hole) for the area. Unclear what this means for the retail plans down the block at The Andrea though. Reached on his Blackberry, Downtown Brooklyn Partnership head Joe Chan had this to say about the news: “The signing of this lease evidences the continued emergence of Downtown Brooklyn as a residential neighborhood.” GMAP
Downtown Brooklyn to Get Upscale Supermarket [Crain’s]
Prior Toren Coverage [Brownstoner]
Trucks double parking on Flatbush is a terrific idea. Double parked trucks on Myrtle is even a BETTER idea – since there’s no left turn from the Manhattan bridge until you get there it ought to back up traffic back across Canal St. to Jersey City. That’ll show Jeanette Sadik-Kahn.
Since you can’t make turns from Flatbush in or out of Ft. Greene anymore, the obvious answer is to turn towards Queens. Anybody know of any decent eco friendly upscale supermarkets on say, Roosevelt Ave?
: P
“Most likely they’ll set up a ‘no standing except for commercial vehicles’ zone in front.”
OMG – it’s like a bike lane for trucks!! NOOOO!!
they don’t ‘stow’ delivery trucks, delivery trucks come and go. Most likely they’ll set up a ‘no standing except for commercial vehicles’ zone in front.
In reality, the price of your 99 cent tomatoes is artificially low. The prices are based on farming that exploits the land and exploits illegal immigrant labor who are paid nothing for their work. But the Pathmark tomatoes probably don’t even come from the U.S. anyway.
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I wonder where they’ll stow all the delivery trucks for a supermarket.
who knows!!! all these people pining for upscale food markets are the same types of want cars and trucks to be, as someone so ridiculously put it in another thread yesterday, “phased out”. what? are you gonna get your precious 25 dollar bags of rice delivered to supermarkets on bikes or something!?
*rob*
GREAT! Adding more traffic to the area with all the delivery trucks. They should confine incoming deliveries between 11pm to 4am.
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I think it’s great that it will be eco friendly, I don’t care too much about the upscale part. As long as it really is eco friendly. If they are looking for local suppliers to keep the carbon foot print of the produce transportaion down, and using the space in the buidling in an condusive to the LEED guidelines and other methods to make it a sustainable store (including fair employment practices); then, I will be one of the shmucks lining up for my $10 tomato.
well, YOU are a sucker then. this is why people can get away with this crap! grrrrrr
*rob*
I wonder where they’ll stow all the delivery trucks for a supermarket.
“rob – i agree. one of the benefits of moving to Williamsburg that i never ever considered prior to moving is the closeness to Queens and their more suburban style stores. (obv need a car tho)”
yeah – but for those of us in WBurg without a car, we’re stuck going to the Sunac on N7th and spending 10 bucks on milk and stale bread.
Grocery stores are good. Even tho all the buildings in DT Brooklyn have those Fresh Direct storage fridges, it’s very important to have a place to go to get random stuff on a daily basis.