More Big Box Shops for Red Hook
Joining Fairway and IKEA in Red Hook will be BJ’s Wholesale Club, says the Brooklyn Paper. Their new home will be the site of the former Revere Sugar Factory on Beard Street, currently used as an IKEA parking lot. The developer, Thor Equities, offered this statement: “Thor is committed to ensuring that whichever organization leases…
Joining Fairway and IKEA in Red Hook will be BJ’s Wholesale Club, says the Brooklyn Paper. Their new home will be the site of the former Revere Sugar Factory on Beard Street, currently used as an IKEA parking lot. The developer, Thor Equities, offered this statement: “Thor is committed to ensuring that whichever organization leases this property, it will fully augment the historic revitalization occurring today in Red Hook.” They haven’t admitted that BJ’s is the new tenant, but an insider at the Borough President’s office let the news slip. The Beep assured the potential use of the site would be subject to a public review. “While welcoming major retailers to our borough could bring economic vitality and much-needed jobs to previously underserved and underutilized areas, we must also be sure to ‘grow smart’ and preserve a neighborhood’s character, he said. This wouldn’t be Kings County’s first BJ’s. There’s another near Starrett CIty.
BJ’s on Tap for Red Hookers [Brooklyn Paper]
What’s Left at Revere Sugar. Photo by Lock.
But they also promote car culture. It isn’t realistic to think people who don’t own cars can take advantage of these big box stores.
Contrary to popular belief, stores like Costco and BJ’s don’t just sell gallon vats of mayo and 40 roll packs of paper towels. They also sell individual items and at a better price, thus their popularity in both cities and burbs.
Where do you live? Because most people I know in NYC hardly have the room to store an extra roll of toilet paper in their apartment!
BJ’s is fantastic. I shop at the J.C. one all the time. Problem is it’s going to hurt the mom and pop shops that are such important parts of the neighborhood fabric. I used to buy all my meat from the local butcher, now I just go for the special cuts. Same goes for the rest of the groceries and dry goods we buy.
Do I feel a guilty taking the money out those specialty stores pockets? Of course, but if I don’t take advantage of BJ’s the money comes from my pocket. If money were no ocencern would I still shop there? Maybe, I dig having 2 months worth of paper towel at the ready!
It will certainly impact the neighborhood. Same way the upper west side of Manhattan looks like a strip mall. Every other week my buddy (30 yr. resident) is reporting to me another small store closing. It’s sad.
Oh yeah and that headline is PRICELESS! I almost spit my coffee.
BJ’s is like Costco, but with a much wider selection. Where Costco might have a dozen kinds of breakfast cereal, BJ’s will have fifty.
This is great for consumers and local people looking for work. I just hope the unions and grocery store owners don’t stop this one the way they did the one in the South Bronx.
There are definitely better uses for a waterfront space than a box store. I’ve said it before, I think Sitt should partner with Brooklyn Brewery, who really need a space that can function as both plant and retail. There’s enough room on the old Revere site that they could have the brewery and they could have a bar and partner with a restaurant. Sitt loves to play up that he’s a Brooklyn boy and that he hast he borough’s best interest in mind, but then why bring us this generic strip mall vision? And why not work with local businesses?
Careful ditto, you’re going to end up with coal in your stockings this Christmas. I can’t believe I showed up here late and didn’t get to join the headline fun…there were some great lines above.
do you buy a lot of dung then santa? One would think your reindeer produce enough.
shit there is cheap.
really cheap
and they have everything.