{"id":46939,"date":"2025-11-21T04:39:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T04:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/46939\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T04:39:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T04:39:22","slug":"k-slope-market-prepares-for-soft-launch-at-former-steves-9th-street-supermarket-location-brooklyn-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/46939\/","title":{"rendered":"K Slope Market prepares for soft launch at former Steve\u2019s 9th Street Supermarket location \u2022 Brooklyn Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"

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K Slope Market owner Brian Kim (center) and his team are looking forward to the soft launch on Nov. 23. Photo by Gabriele Holtermann<\/p>\n

The grocery store formerly known as Steve\u2019s 9th Street Supermarket<\/a> in Park Slope has a new occupant.<\/p>\n

K Slope Market, a full-service supermarket and member of the Key Food Cooperative<\/a>, is opening its doors on Sunday, Nov. 23, at 7 a.m. with a limited capacity soft launch. The grand opening will follow in January 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In celebration of its soft opening, the store is offering exclusive holiday deals, food samples, a raffle including a \u201cThanksgiving Feast\u201d for 12, and goodie bags filled with the store\u2019s favorite treats for the first 100 customers.<\/p>\n

The market\u2019s new owner, Brian Kim, told Brooklyn Paper that he is excited to bring high-quality, affordable groceries back to the neighborhood and is committed to customer service.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

The Brooklyn resident and second-generation grocery store operator \u2014 Kim\u2019s family owns supermarkets in New Jersey \u2014 said that while K Slope Market will keep many of the existing products, including the international food aisle, will also add a wide variety of Asian products.<\/p>\n

\"\"K Slope Market will offer\u00a0 a variety of Asian products. Photo by Gabriele Holtermann \"\"K Slope Market kept the international food aisle. Photo by Gabriele Holtermann<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited to open for the community in Park Slope, [and] excited to bring something new to an establishment that\u2019s been here for so long,\u201d said Kim, who said he\u00a0listened to the concerns of the community as well as the input of Steve\u2019s former manager Jairo Jerez, who is joining K Slope Market\u2019s team as general manager.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis store has been here for over 20 years. I know it was a big staple in the community. I\u2019m hoping that we can come in and be able to revitalize and fill in a gap that\u2019s been missing. I\u2019m Korean, so I\u2019m trying to bring a little bit of my experience to the area as well, and hopefully people like it,\u201d Kim explained.<\/p>\n

The renovation includes brand-new refrigerators, new flooring, and lighting fixtures that brighten the formerly dull and dark space. The width of the aisles, which many customers praised for their accessibility to wheelchairs and strollers, remains the same.<\/p>\n

\"\"The width of the grocery store aisles remained the same to accommodate wheelchair users and families with strollers. Photo by Gabriele Holtermann<\/p>\n

The fresh produce department is double the size, stocked with the freshest selection of natural and organic fruit and vegetables sourced daily directly from farms,\u00a0allowing Kim to pass the savings to customers.<\/p>\n

Kim also added a full-service butcher offering custom cuts and professional meat preparation; an international fish counter with daily fresh fish deliveries; a sushi counter; grab-and-go food options; an artisan deli with artisan cheeses, gourmet cuts, and dips; and baked goods, delivered twice daily from the Brooklyn Baking Company.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re really, really excited about the new things that are coming into the store,\u201d Rita Razalan, K Slope\u2019s head of Marketing, told Brooklyn Paper.\n<\/p>\n

The store also expanded its opening hours from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., seven days a week, and will offer online shopping with local delivery.\n<\/p>\n

\"\"The produce aisle is twice the size. Photo by Gabriele Holtermann \"\"The produce aisle in-progress ahead of the soft launch. Photo by Gabriele Holtermann<\/p>\n

The K Slope Market team pointed out that, due to the government shutdown, their EBT\/SNAP\/OTC application is still pending. However, they are working closely with the government agencies to get the program up and running.<\/p>\n

When Steve\u2019s abruptly closed its doors on Sept. 30, many Park Slope residents were worried that they had lost a supermarket offering affordable groceries.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of our core pricing tenets will be to make sure that we have core staples that are competitive with chain pricing, like eggs, milk, bread, apples, and bananas. We\u2019ll be offering those at a price that\u2019s competitive to chain stores,\u201d said Razalan, noting that the store will also run weekly sales and manager\u2019s specials, including a \u201cThanksgiving Feast\u201d bundle that feeds 12 people for $100.<\/p>\n

Kim and Razalan emphasized the importance of customer service, noting that the team was still building a full store experience and welcomed community input.\n<\/p>\n

\u201c[I\u2019m] hoping for a little bit of flexibility and understanding. This is our soft opening, so we\u2019re still getting a lot of the kinks out. We are hoping the community can come in, give us some feedback, and let us know how they\u2019re feeling,\u201d Kim noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"K Slope Market owner Brian Kim (center) and his team are looking forward to the soft launch on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[26604,98,100,99,288,1070,26605,9220,26606,26607,26608,26609,9,24,12,370,63,8005,26610,26611,26612,19863],"class_list":["post-46939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brian-kim","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-business","tag-food","tag-full-service-supermarket","tag-grocery-store","tag-jairo-jerez","tag-k-slope-market","tag-k-slope-market-soft-opening","tag-key-food-cooperative","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newsletter","tag-nyc","tag-park-slope","tag-rita-razalan","tag-soft-launch","tag-steves-9th-street-supermarket","tag-supermarket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46939","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=46939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}