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Whole Foods to occupy main floor of the Trust Company building


Whole Foods coming to Jersey City, signs lease for store in iconic Trust Company building.

By Michaelangelo Conty | The Jersey Journal
on March 31, 2015 at 9:28 PM

Whole Foods has signed a lease for a 29,000-square-foot outlet in the former Trust Company Bank building in Journal Square. The formal announcement is expected next week, a spokesman confirmed.

No other details were available this eveing.

Mayor Fulop has been campaigning to bring the healthy food store to the city since becoming mayor in 2013. He gave Co-CEO Walter Robb and a regional president a tour in 2014.

The store will anchor the Trust Company?s conversion into a multi-use building, featuring 127 studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments on the upper floors. The main level will house the new store.

Co-CEO Robb stated the new stores proximity to a major transportation center in the heart of Journal Square as a deciding factor. ?We look forward to having ?yuppies? from all over Jersey City travel to Journal Square to shop with us? Robb said.

Mayor Fulop was quoted as saying ? this is what we have been waiting for, it will put the rebirth of the Jewel of Jersey City? Journal Square into over drive?.

The project is a joint partnership between the Jersey City-based Hanin Group and L&D Development Partners of New York.

Whole Foods, with 364 stores in the U.S. and abroad, has 10 stores in New Jersey, mostly in upscale locations such as Montclair, West Orange and Princeton.

wait, this must be true since the story is from march 31. i can't weight.

hero69 wrote:
wait, this must be true since the story is from march 31.

neverleft wrote:


Whole Foods to occupy main floor of the Trust Company building


Whole Foods coming to Jersey City, signs lease for store in iconic Trust Company building.

By Michaelangelo Conty | The Jersey Journal
on March 31, 2015 at 9:28 PM

Whole Foods has signed a lease for a 29,000-square-foot outlet in the former Trust Company Bank building in Journal Square. The formal announcement is expected next week, a spokesman confirmed.

No other details were available this eveing.

Mayor Fulop has been campaigning to bring the healthy food store to the city since becoming mayor in 2013. He gave Co-CEO Walter Robb and a regional president a tour in 2014.

The store will anchor the Trust Company?s conversion into a multi-use building, featuring 127 studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments on the upper floors. The main level will house the new store.

Co-CEO Robb stated the new stores proximity to a major transportation center in the heart of Journal Square as a deciding factor. ?We look forward to having ?yuppies? from all over Jersey City travel to Journal Square to shop with us? Robb said.

Mayor Fulop was quoted as saying ? this is what we have been waiting for, it will put the rebirth of the Jewel of Jersey City? Journal Square into over drive?.

The project is a joint partnership between the Jersey City-based Hanin Group and L&D Development Partners of New York.

Whole Foods, with 364 stores in the U.S. and abroad, has 10 stores in New Jersey, mostly in upscale locations such as Montclair, West Orange and Princeton.

sussexst wrote:
Oh ha ha aren't you clever. A fake story on April Fools' Day.

whoa, WTF just came back in from my morning run and saw a wholefood van on Ocean and Wade... They now deliver.

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user1111 wrote:
whoa, WTF just came back in from my morning run and saw a wholefood van on Ocean and Wade... They now deliver.

WF has always had a delivery service, I'm not sure if JC is in the delivery area. Perhaps that's where the delivery driver lives.

Perhaps, but I sincerely doubt she lives around there.

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user1111 wrote:
whoa, WTF just came back in from my morning run and saw a wholefood van on Ocean and Wade... They now deliver.

WF has always had a delivery service, I'm not sure if JC is in the delivery area. Perhaps that's where the delivery driver lives.

user1111 wrote:
whoa, WTF just came back in from my morning run and saw a wholefood van on Ocean and Wade... They now deliver.

tommyc_37 wrote:
Playing devil's advocate...

In a suburban area how many well to do people would be within 15 miles? Maybe 50,000-100,000 (max)? I would say there are 100,000 fairly well to do people in just downtown JC and Hoboken (maybe include Weehawken in that mix) who would shop at a Whole Foods, Wegmen's, TJ's etc).


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No, you're not wrong to want it. I get it. I'd like one here as well, but it's very unlikely to expect it. Their model is VERY big stores with a large, well to do population within 15 miles.

Monroe wrote:
No, you're not wrong to want it. I get it. I'd like one here as well, but it's very unlikely to expect it. Their model is VERY big stores with a large, well to do population within 15 miles.

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No, you're not wrong to want it. I get it. I'd like one here as well, but it's very unlikely to expect it. Their model is VERY big stores with a large, well to do population within 15 miles. [/quote


WF and TJ have at least two models - urban and suburban - why can't Wegman's?

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Where could you site a Wegman's in JC? Have you ever been in one? Have you ever seen the size of the parking lots in Wegman's? Many here push JC as being a place where people don't need cars-have you ever seen a person leaving a Wegman's without many, many bags-that they, in suburbia, put into the back of a giant SUV?

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They did look at Hoboken/Jersey City but could not find a good location yet (according to company spokesman Mr. Sinatra). A main factor affecting good location imo is accessibility. I wouldn't build a WF here unless I could plop it somewhere on Columbus.

I truly don't want to beat a dead horse (this debate has been going on for a very long time!) but shut down the POS Pathmark; plenty of existing parking, already set up for a grocery store and is accessible by car to people that drive (next to the high way), accessible to people by light rail (by the hospital). That area is in some dire need of rehab and an anchor such as WF will assist with just that.

The best location for wholefood is the abandoned powerhouse by 2nd street and washington.

The location is perfect - accessible by all public transportation, and walkable from all surrounding highrises. In the idea world, jersey city will offer WF tax breaks/incentive and WF will renovate the powerhouse and move in. So the neighborhood can finally solve this long time problem and avoid putting another highrise there.

But it will never happen, because we are in JC.

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As long as we're discussing Pathmark on Grand, can I just say bah humbug?! I just wrote a few words about them in Yelp, which I included below.

As for replacing it with WF, I think that's a bit far fetched. Where are the majority of the people who live in the area gonna do their grocery shopping? Not everyone can afford or even wants WF. Personally, I'd prefer anything to friggin' Pathmark.

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It's Christmas Day, bah humbug. I freaked cuz I forgot about an item essential for today's meal. It was 6:30am and I figured everyone's closed. I'm closest to Pathmark so I checked their website to see if they were open. There was no info there about holidays. I called the store and pressed the option for location and hours. Again, nothing stated about holidays. However, I was surprised to get someone on the phone from the store.

Me: Are you open today?
Store: Yes
Me: Are you open now?
Store: Yes

I was pleasantly shocked. I got on my bike and took a short ride, 1.5 miles one way, in the drizzle. I got to the parking lot and realized I forgot my wallet. So, it's back home and back to the store again. Meanwhile, the drizzle got a lot heavier and I was pretty wet by the time I got to the store. I locked my bike, and tried to open the doors. Locked!! I see no customers. Bad sign. I banged on the door until the manager came. He advised they were not open until 8am. It is now just after 7am. I told him about my conversation on the phone only minutes before. I don't think he believed me! I pleaded with him just to let me get this one item, under $5. He said it was impossible cuz there was no cashier. I told him I'd give him a $20 and pick up the change later plus offered to let him hold on to ID. He wouldn't budge.

This was baloney. Any decent store would have found a way to accommodate me.

I don't think it's a horrible store as the sentiment seems to indicate on local lists. But it's not a place that I would consider going to for anything except if I'm in a pinch. I can't comment on prices cuz I'm not that savvy. But the store itself is so depressing and dismal between the people who work and shop there. Customer service is an alien concept. The term "fresh" takes on a whole new definition at Pathmark.

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They did look at Hoboken/Jersey City but could not find a good location yet (according to company spokesman Mr. Sinatra). A main factor affecting good location imo is accessibility. I wouldn't build a WF here unless I could plop it somewhere on Columbus.

I truly don't want to beat a dead horse (this debate has been going on for a very long time!) but shut down the POS Pathmark; plenty of existing parking, already set up for a grocery store and is accessible by car to people that drive (next to the high way), accessible to people by light rail (by the hospital). That area is in some dire need of rehab and an anchor such as WF will assist with just that.

The best location for wholefood is the abandoned powerhouse by 2nd street and washington.

The location is perfect - accessible by all public transportation, and walkable from all surrounding highrises. In the idea world, jersey city will offer WF tax breaks/incentive and WF will renovate the powerhouse and move in. So the neighborhood can finally solve this long time problem and avoid putting another highrise there.

But it will never happen, because we are in JC.

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99 Hudson

Monroe wrote:
The redevelopment plan from last month would seem to indicate that, although there will be retail on the ground floor-so I guess we'll see.

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I don't differ often from Bodipooh, as I don't think the Shop Rite on Marin is bad at all. And while some would say that a WF going into Newark shows it can be done, it's just not going to happen here.

The Shop Rite location is being leased by the supermarket, right? With the value of that land climbing, Shop Rite's days (at least in its current form) are numbered.

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They did look at Hoboken/Jersey City but could not find a good location yet (according to company spokesman Mr. Sinatra). A main factor affecting good location imo is accessibility. I wouldn't build a WF here unless I could plop it somewhere on Columbus.

I truly don't want to beat a dead horse (this debate has been going on for a very long time!) but shut down the POS Pathmark; plenty of existing parking, already set up for a grocery store and is accessible by car to people that drive (next to the high way), accessible to people by light rail (by the hospital). That area is in some dire need of rehab and an anchor such as WF will assist with just that.