Whole Foods Market build-out permit issued for Brooklyn

Whole Foods Market can build-out in Brooklyn, joining the list of grocery stores operating or announced for Downtown Jacksonville.

The city issued a permit Sept. 10 for RCC Associates of Deerfield Beach to build-out the 38,300-square-foot store shell at 1 Riverside Ave., Unit 1000, in the One Riverside development at a project cost of $7.5 million.

John Paul Frank of BRR Architecture Inc. in Overland Park, Kansas, is the architect. Codes-ABC Inc. of Orange Park is the private provider for code compliance.

Whole Foods Market is at 1 Riverside Ave. It is part of the One Riverside retail, apartment and park development on the Downtown Northbank at the base of the Acosta Bridge.

The One Riverside retail, apartment and park development is on the Downtown Northbank at the base of the Acosta Bridge.

It is across Riverside Avenue from The Fresh Market. 

Also Downtown, discount grocer Aldi is renovating part of the former Harveys Supermarket at 777 N. Market St., at southeast Market and Union streets.

Publix Super Markets Inc. confirmed Sept. 3 it will open a 31,000-square-foot store in 2028 in the Gateway Jax property at 119 W. Beaver St., east of Hogan Street between Union and Beaver streets.

The Whole Foods tenant work follows construction of the shell building, which the city permitted Oct. 23, 2024, at a job cost of almost $1.21 million. Young Contracting/SE Inc. of Atlanta was the contractor.

The interior plan for the 38,300-square-foot Whole Foods Market at 1 Riverside Ave.

Austin, Texas-based Whole Foods Market will lease and operate the grocery store. 

Plans include meat, produce, seafood, bakery, grocery, prepared foods, body care and specialty sections. There are tables for customers to eat at the store.

It will be the third Whole Foods in Jacksonville, with the first operating in Mandarin and the second in Jacksonville Beach.

The Brooklyn site is the former campus of The Florida Times-Union daily newspaper.

Atlanta-based Fuqua Development is developing Whole Foods Market and a separate retail building for lease to tenants.

For that second building, the city issued a permit in October 2024 for Young Contracting/SE Inc. to build the 8,000-square-foot shell Building 2000 at a project cost of  $1.207 million.

The shell building would be leased to tenants, who would then prepare their spaces. 

Plans indicate spaces for at least three tenants. A permit was issued for a Solidcore workout studio in Suite 215.