Oh Damn, Wegmans Brooklyn Grand Opening Pushed Back Until Late 2018
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by We’ve been counting down the days until Wegmans, would finally open at Brooklyn Navy Yard but according to recent reports their 2017 date has been pushed back an entire year. Fans of the mega supermarket chain will now have to wait until mid to late 2018 for the first Brooklyn location to officially open.
According to Brooklyn Paper, developer Steiner New York City is still acquiring all the permits it needs to build at their proposed location at Flushing Avenue between Navy Street and N. Elliot Place.
The 74,000-square-foot store will be on the ground floor and mezzanine level of a planned 5-story building, making it the borough’s largest food emporium, snatching the title from Whole Foods Market Gowanus, once open.
Wegmans has previously promised to create at-least 200 full-time job, and 600 jobs overall in which the three housing projects that border the Navy Yard will be given first priority. In its first two weeks of hiring, the store is set to interview exclusively from the locals that live near the Navy Yard, a community it hopes will be on both sides of the checkout line, said Danny Wegman, the grocer’s third-generation chief executive.
“People need not just good food, but good jobs,” Danny Wegman, the grocer’s third-generation chief executive told the Times. “Brooklyn provides an incredible opportunity for both.”
The estimated cost for the supermarket is a whopping $140 million but is seems to be priceless for the residents of the Navy Yard and Fort Greene who anxiously await an affordable and reliable grocer and even though it may take a bit longer to open.
