[CPEO-BIF] Whole Foods in Brooklyn, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Whole Foods Going Forward - With a New Design

25% Smaller, Fewer Parking Spaces, Rooftop Greenhouse

by Press Release
Brooklyn Daily Eagle (NY)
November 29, 2010


GOWANUS - After several years of waiting since the project was first 
announced in 2006 - and after the cleanup of its "brownfield site" was 
completed this past summer - Whole Foods is now officially moving 
forward with its first-ever Brooklyn store on Third Avenue and Third 
Street on the banks of the Gowanus Canal.

The natural-foods supermarket chain is planning to apply to the Board of 
Standards and Appeals (BSA), which reviews and decides on zoning 
variances and special permits, within the next two months. Once the 
chain files with BSA, then it will schedule meetings with Community 
Board 6 and local organizations.

A source within the company said that this process would take about 10 
months, and groundbreaking is expected by 2012. Like most of the land 
along the Gowanus, the site was originally an industrial one.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=31&id=39794

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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