Union Market Prepping for Fort Greene Expansion
Park Slope’s modestly-sized but decidely upscale Union Market has spent much of the past year looking for the right spot to open a new store in Fort Greene. While Union Market won’t comment on its plans yet, we’re hearing that it has its eyes on the 10,000-square-foot Dollar Dream space at 633 Fulton Street at…
Park Slope’s modestly-sized but decidely upscale Union Market has spent much of the past year looking for the right spot to open a new store in Fort Greene. While Union Market won’t comment on its plans yet, we’re hearing that it has its eyes on the 10,000-square-foot Dollar Dream space at 633 Fulton Street at Rockwell Place. While this location is a bit of shlepp for some of the brownstone blocks of Fort Greene (and definitely for Clinton Hill), there’s one constituency that’s going to be thrilled with this news: those buying in the Forte Condominium (and the developer who’s going to get some extra marketing mileage out of this). Regardless, if true, this is huge news for an area that has never had an upscale market of any size. It’s also a nice boost for the BAM Cultural District. We wonder whether if there’s going to be any permanent plan for parking for the store. GMAP
Photo by Scott Bintner for Property Shark
It’s people like you, with your cars and your big families, who . . . .
Just kidding.
Thanks for your honesty. But please let’s skip the parking.
I’m SO HAPPY ABOUT THIS! Ft. Greene is getting so Fancy Pants. Remember when it was all dreads and crunchie granolas and crack? aW…..
Probably not on a regular basis, but it’s not unlikely that there will be weeks when there’s not time to go all the way to Fairway, for example. We’re just being honest that we’re not going to carry 8 bags on the bus when we are fortunate enough to have a car.
Waddaya mean “used to house the Dollar Dream”??? I just bought toilet paper there last week. Has it closed?
Brownstoner I have no real issue with you driving for large grocery shopping but at the same time you seem to promote the anti-(proposed)Whole Foods group PSN on this same blog, which is demanding changes based on their opposition to the fact that WF will have too much parking and will not rely on mass transit.
Seems inconsistent
I’m the snark. And didn’t mean anything nasty. Just that a bigger retailer that wants parking (which I doubt very much this place will have considering how exspensive land is there and that they already have the pedestrian traffic) should choose different location.
And I have no problem with you or anyone else driving to get your groceries or anywhere else. But just remember when criticising others(developers) for adding to congestion, etc that perfectly willing to add some yourself.
The way things are going here Mr.B will not be able to buy much upscale food soon….
I don’t know brownstoner, something doesn’t quite make sense: I understand shopping at somewhere like Union Market occasionally, to cook that one fancy dinner, for which you really don’t need 8 grocery bags. But if you’re shopping for the week, and have a family of four, you are actually gonna do that shopping at Union Market? Seriously? I mean, I love fancy food, but if I had a car and a big family, i’d much rather drive to Fairway once a week. I just can’t imagine getting 1 week’s worth of food at Union.
When a good grocery store opens up within walking distance of our house, we’ll be more than happy to hoof it. In the meantime, we’re gonna be driving for our big weekly food runs…On a related note, you’ll be happy to note that as of today we are commuting to work on a bicycle.
Union Market is crazy overpriced. They charge more for meat than even Citarella. There’s no reason for it.
I don’t mind if they have parking, as long as they charge for it (and/or pay the city to compensate for the additional congestion). Though I’d note that there are certainly families of four who don’t have the privilege of a car and DO have to carry lots of food on the bus, train, or via dollar vans.