New 15,000 sq ft supermarket to open in LIC
26 Feb
There’s a housing boom in the Court Square area of Long Island City, but many residents are also noticing a scarcity in amenities like supermarkets, pharmacies and other kinds of shops (except pet stores, of course).
Rockrose Development is in the midst of developing a few more residential high rises, but with that a promise of more retail shops.
The first will be a high-end 15,000-square-foot supermarket, to be built on the first floor of a planned 42-story residential tower called Linc LIC, at 43-10 Crescent St. The building’s 709 luxury apartments are slated to open this spring, with the supermarket to follow after.
In addition, the company purchased a row of buildings along Jackson Avenue — located behind the site of another one of its residential projects, a 975-unit building planned for 43-25 Hunter St. — which are being reserved for retail tenants.
via DNAinfo.com
Is “high-end” = ripoff? I’m thinking Food Cellar, here. What we really need is a high quality supermarket which has more reasonable prices (more like Fairway Red Hook).
That’s why you have Key Food on 21st St. What else do you want? However, a Trader Joe’s would be awesome. Maybe we should not open a second climbing center and open a TJ’s or Fairway instead.
I’d be happy if they renovated Key Foods. That place always smells disgusting, like mold and cat piss.
Key Food is the worst. I was hoping it would improve when it was changed over from C-Town but it’s the same horror show.
I try to hit Fairway in midtown instead and then ferry it back to LIC.
New Yorkers are such suckers. It’s the only place in America where cheap-ass groceries have to be marketed as luxury commodities.
Whole foods would be great! Key Food sucks! I went there once and the prices are high. Yogurt and milk were .50 to a $1 more compared to WF or Fairway. Fairway in Douglaston is worth the trek once in a while.
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Don’t you find the Fairway in Red Hook is closer and easier to get to?
Food Cellar is too expensive. Key Food is crappy and smelly, but cheap. There’s no satisfying you people!
We barely had any food choices and now there’s several and all you do is complain.
Order Fresh Direct then you ‘tards.
There is another Key Food right over the Pulaski Bridge which is not too bad. Helps to have a car though.