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<\/center>For close to two decades, downtown residents have been dreaming of a Whole Foods market. The time has finally come.<\/p>\nEver since luxury residential development began in downtown Jersey City, rumors of the imminent Whole Foods opening followed.<\/p>\n
The grocery retailer rolled out stores in Manhattan first, and this only fueled speculation of Jersey City’s arrival of the then status grocery chain. The 50,000-square <\/a>foot Union Square store opened in March of 2005. Crowds flocked to the store, and there are some people who have been waiting on line there ever since.<\/p>\n In 2008, a store opened in Tribeca with 69,000-square feet<\/a>, and the proximity to the World Trade Center PATH made this one of the closest options.<\/p>\n During that time, Jersey City had a dearth of decent grocery stores<\/a>.<\/p>\n In 2007, with the development of a new tower complex in Newport, many speculated this would finally be the long awaited Whole Foods market. The Shore did end up with a grocery store, but it was a Morton Williams rather than the mythical Whole Foods.<\/p>\n At about the same time, the first foundations for the ever growing Liberty Harbor development were being laid with the promise of a grocery store in that new neighborhood. Once again, Whole Foods was rumored to be taking a corner retail location at Jersey Avenue and Grand Street. For many years this served as the developments sales office.<\/p>\n The 2008 recession slowed development in Jersey City, and ended hopes of a new space big enough for a Whole Foods. That didn’t stop real estate agents from speculating on local blogs. Many of the planned developments where the retailer was supposed close to signing a lease simply didn’t meet the store’s size requirements.<\/p>\n It’s not surprising then that when Whole Foods finally did arrive, it is in an existing building with plenty of parking.<\/p>\n The purchase of the grocer by Amazon probably also aided in bringing the market to Jersey City. Amazon isn’t about exclusivity but instead market saturation. There was also a discussion about the parent company leasing office space on this side of the Hudson, but that fell through last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For close to two decades, downtown residents have been dreaming of a Whole Foods market. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[102],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail","tag-whole-foods"],"views":4319,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/center><\/p>\n