Trader Joe's, Katz's Deli, DeKalb Market Hall Slip City Point Opening to 2017

The dish on food vendors at the much-anticipated City Point development in Downtown Brooklyn is they’ll be opening later than anticipated, in 2017 instead of this fall.

Movie-and-a-meal chain Alamo Drafthouse Cinema last week announced its August opening wouldn’t be happening after all. “When is the theater opening? To be perfectly honest, we don’t have an answer right now,” reads a letter on the chain’s website.

Then, on Friday, Trader Joe’s updated its website to say its closely watched opening will take place sometime in 2017, not this fall, as Gothamist was the first to report. The City Point location will be the grocer’s second Brooklyn store.

Now it turns out the City Point DeKalb Market Food Hall — with 55 vendors, including Katz’s Delicatessen, ice creamery Ample Hills, and Jackson Heights’ famed Arepa Lady — will also be opening later than anticipated, to time the opening with the other foodie purveyors.

“We’ll be coordinating our opening with the other food-level tenants. As they are delayed, we will open when they are ready in 2017,” DeKalb Market Food Hall Managing Partner Anna Castellani told Brownstoner.

Alamo Drafthouse noted in its letter that “getting a business open in New York is…complicated.” But Alamo Drafthouse still hopes to open this fall, Alamo Drafthouse Senior Marketing and Promotion Manager Mike Sampson told Brownstoner.

No word yet whether Century21 and Target also plan to push back their planned fall openings to 2017. At least no one’s rushing out half baked.

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