{"id":323388,"date":"2026-08-17T20:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T20:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323388\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T20:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T20:02:07","slug":"officials-tour-site-of-first-city-owned-grocery-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323388\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials tour site of first city-owned grocery store"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York City is kicking off a series of site visits as it moves ahead with plans to build city-owned grocery stores.<\/p>\n

On Monday, city officials visited a planned location in the South Bronx<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The tour of The Peninsula site in Hunts Point included operators interested in running the stores. The site is set to be around 20,000 square feet<\/a>, including multiple floors and a loading area.<\/p>\n

Officials have said the store there is expected to open by the end of 2027.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to hear from the community about what they want inside of this space, and how it can be most impactful to New Yorkers,\u201d said Waverly Neer, senior vice president at the Economic Development Corporation, the city agency overseeing the initiative.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to be complementary to the neighborhoods that we\u2019re going into, and so, it\u2019s part of a big, broad effort, not only with business owners in the neighborhood, but also the people that live here, and in making sure that whatever is implemented is a success,\u201d Neer added.<\/p>\n

A tour of a second site in East Harlem<\/a> \u2014 at La Marqueta under the Metro-North Railroad tracks \u2014 is expected to take place Wednesday. That site is slated to open by the end of 2029.<\/p>\n

The city has said it plans to open five stores in total \u2014 one in each borough.<\/p>\n

Earlier this summer, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the stores would sell grocery staples like produce, meat and dairy products at prices 30% below average retail costs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City is kicking off a series of site visits as it moves ahead with plans to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[109,25,98,100,99,6348,9,24,12,63,87,380,129,27],"class_list":["post-323388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-top-stories","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-kelly-mena","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-the-bronx","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}