Fuqua Development announced April 29 that Whole Foods Market will lease the grocery space at its One Riverside Jacksonville center in the Brooklyn neighborhood Downtown.
Atlanta-based Fuqua is developing One Riverside at the former Florida Times-Union campus it bought at 1 Riverside Ave.
The grocer will lease about 43,000 square feet of space. There also will be 11,000 square feet of retail space for lease in the first phase.
It will be the third Whole Foods in Jacksonville, with the first operating in Mandarin and the second in Jacksonville Beach.
Apartments also will be built on the 18.8-acre Northbank riverfront site next to the Acosta Bridge.
The Times-Union buildings are being demolished. Construction of the Whole Foods Market could start in late summer.
The release said that located on a major commuter corridor and directly adjacent to the future Brooklyn Skyway monorail station, “1 Riverside Ave. will offer convenient access to organic groceries, fresh restaurant concepts, boutiques and services and a new avenue of connection to the St. Johns River and McCoy’s Creek.”
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