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]
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There’s a really tiny street behind/to the side of Toren. Its a one way which starts on flatbush but doesn’t go all the way through myrtle. I’m sure i’ve seen door space into Toren’s street level on that side while walking to my car. Maybe the deliveries will down back there. I don’t see any other way.
The thought of idle delivery trucks outside my windows between midnight and 4 am doesn’t sound like a good idea. Deliveries should come between business hours or late evening not when I’m asleep.
I live downtown and its a $*%#& getting groceries. I’m not a fresh direct fan (gasp!) because i like to touch, see, feel, and smell stuff before i pay for it. Hopefully this works out.
By the way, those are not sewer tours near Trader Joes. Those are tours of a very cool abandoned train tunnel.
http://www.brooklynrail.net/proj_aatunnel.html
Stoner,
How about a commercial parking zone like Denton said? How about deliveries during certain hours only. Parking on this block of Flatbush is already restricted – none during 7-10 am, or 4-7pm. At all other times of day parking is permitted, a delivery unloading carveout during those hours will reduce the number of metered spots but otherwise should not have the catastrophic impact you fear.
11,000 square feet is awfully small for a contemporary supermarket, which are typically at least 40,000 square feet. This sounds more like a little boutiquey market. But maybe that’s what their target shoppers want.
I would think a building that big would have off-street loading somewhere. It will need it, since food stores need daily deliveries of perishables like milk, bread, and produce, and nightly garbage pickups.
LilbitOfLuck, Trader Joe’s manages because YOU CAN TURN LEFT AND RIGHT FROM ATLANTIC AVE.
Sorry for shouting, but it’s nearly impossible to get in or out of Fort Greene except via Flushing Ave. east-west or Washington Ave. north-south. Flatbush is a just the conduit for the major traffic pouring out of Dyker Hts, Bay Ridge, Sunset Park and Park Slope headed into Manhattan.
Double parked trucks at Myrtle during busy times of day will be a special nightmare.
Downtown Brookly will be a cool place to live in 15-20 years, and by then residents will be fighting over who was there first.
Totally agree with TD and bao. Regular supermarket food hugely benefits giant exploitive agribusiness like Tyson and ConAgra. Small farmers and immigrants are screwed, and land in the midwest and south is getting ruined from pesticides and huge animal feed lots.
So yeah, I’ll pay more for food that’s not part of that system. And it’s unfortunate that it’s out of reach for too many folks. This would change if small farmers and producers got gov’t subsidies, but they largely don’t. Those are saved for the big guys.
I wonder how Trader Joes manages on that awfully busy thoroughfare known as Altantic Ave. At least Flatbush doesn’t have sewer tours every weekend. Geezus.