New Fresh Market

[reednavy]

Just fyi, Fresh Market is building a new location at the SE croner of San Jose BLVD and Julington Creek RD, beside the marina. Progress is coming along nicely, and concrete should be ready to pour within the next few weeks.

This will be a happening spot for those in Julington Creek. I guess this is as close as they can get to Julington Creek w/o actually being in St. Johns County and paying their taxes. Smart move IMO.

[copperfiend]

I love the Fresh Market by Queens Harbor.

I wonder if they will close the existing store on San Jose near Bonefish when the new one opens.

[billy]

I think they will.

[Joe]

Are St Johns taxes higher than Duval? I never really though about it before, but I just assumed that such an affluent county would have much lower property taxes.

Either way, sounds like it's the end of the line for the Fresh Market at San Jose and Claire Lane. It's kind of understandable though. That immediate area is getting so difficult to traverse, and that shopping center itself was always a bit awkward.

[blizz01]

I'm sure this move is a result of Whole Foods setting up camp so close.......

[kellypope]

I wonder what, if anything, would take the place of the San Jose and Claire FM. Whole Foods has definitely shifted the game in Mandarin. Oh, greenwashing.

[Overstreet]

I wonder what, if anything, would take the place of the San Jose and Claire FM. Whole Foods has definitely shifted the game in Mandarin. Oh, greenwashing.

It used to be a Food Lion store.

[reednavy]

The WF in Mandarin used to be a Publix, not Food Lion.

Food Lion is at Old St. Augustine and Hartley.

[Overstreet]

The WF in Mandarin used to be a Publix, not Food Lion.

Food Lion is at Old St. Augustine and Hartley.

I thought the thread was talking about the Fresh Market moving. The current Fresh Market location was a former Food Lion. Food Lion went through a restructuring and moved out of the San Jose location. The developer divided the space into the Fresh Market and the Curves next door (or what ever that exercise place is). 

Yes, Whole Foods was Publix and some other stores that were swallowed up after Publix moved into the old Albertsons across San Jose next to Target. Target used to be several other stores that were removed so Target could go in there.

 The next rumor is that Picasso’s Pizza in the Whole Foods plaza is moving to the old Rosa Lea’s location in the next plaza north. Rosa Lea’s was of course in the old Rumplestiltkins (sp?) location. This should be a good move since those guys are rumored to be chef trained and the new location should give them more seating and a chance to expand menu.

[Deuce]

This is all good and well, but I want a damn WF or FM in the urban core! I can't believe they haven't at least built in San Marco or near Avondale and Ortega!

[Captain Zissou]

I agree with Deuce.  Mandarin is filled to bursting with grocery stores.  One thing that has always bothered me is that whole foods demolished a perfectly good grocery store to build a new grocery store right on top of it.....  Not very green if you ask me.  How much better would a warehouse conversion or an infill development have been?  Whatever, good for mandarin, but I won't shop at any of these places until one is built north of Lakewood at least.

[brainstormer]

I would love to see a Trader Joes in the Urban Core, San Marco, or Springfield.  They love to enter markets in mixed use developments, and I really think one would do well here.  I miss "2 Buck Chuck" (now 2.78) and their fantastic pizza dough!

[tufsu1]

that may be a while...there are no Trader Joes in Florida

[brainstormer]

^ I realize this, but Jacksonville is within a half day semi drive of Atlanta and a six hour drive from Charlotte, so a logical place to enter the Florida market would be here.

[Overstreet]

This is all good and well, but I want a damn WF or FM in the urban core! I can't believe they haven't at least built in San Marco or near Avondale and Ortega!

They perform a market study before opening a store.  They check population,  median income and distance to other shopping. Then there is the "niching".  What kind of figures do you think the Urban core has?