{"id":81321,"date":"2025-07-21T18:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/81321\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:53:09","slug":"downtown-jacksonville-harveys-closed-for-conversion-to-aldi-what-changes-are-in-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/81321\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Jacksonville Harveys closed for conversion to Aldi. What changes are in store?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Downtown Jacksonville shoppers will soon see a new name on a familiar storefront.<\/p>\n

The Harveys Supermarket at\u00a0777 N. Market Street\u00a0in downtown Jacksonville closed in late June to begin converting into an\u00a0Aldi. This project is part of a stated goal by the grocery chain to convert stores around Florida<\/a> and expand across the country.<\/p>\n

Aldi acquired about 400 Winn-Dixie and Harveys stores<\/a> from\u00a0Jacksonville-based Southeastern Grocers\u00a0in March 2024. The German-based retailer also announced plans to\u00a0add 800 U.S. stores, including through conversions, by 2028.<\/p>\n

About 170 of those stores went back to Southeastern Grocers in February<\/a> and will continue to operate as Winn-Dixies now.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Aldi opened its first converted location in the region at\u00a02261 Edgewood Ave. W. in Northwest Jacksonville<\/a>. Other local conversions include stores in\u00a0Jacksonville,\u00a0Fernandina Beach, Fleming Island<\/a> and St. Johns County.<\/p>\n

Aldi currently operates about\u00a014 stores in Northeast Florida, including nine in Jacksonville, but that number is expected to grow significantly as more conversions are completed.<\/p>\n

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Renovation plans were shown on a city permit application to total about\u00a0$810,000. Potential changes to the 31,000-square-foot Harveys will make it into Aldi\u2019s smaller grocery format at about 25,000 square feet. The remaining 6,500 square feet are expected to then be leased to another tenant.<\/p>\n

APD Engineering & Architecture PLLC\u00a0is listed as the project engineer.<\/p>\n

There is no official timeline on how long this process might take, but the Edgewood Avenue store conversion took about six months to be completed, indicating a potential grand opening in early 2026.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Aldi to replace Downtown Jacksonville Harveys in regional growth plan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Downtown Jacksonville shoppers will soon see a new name on a familiar storefront. The Harveys Supermarket at\u00a0777 N.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":81322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[7530,5229,18605,3188,723,55720,7310,52402,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-81321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-aldi","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-downtown-jacksonville","11":"tag-fl","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-harveys-supermarket","14":"tag-jacksonville","15":"tag-southeastern-grocers","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}