The Trader Joe’s store that is being built at 670 Columbus avenue now has signage. Opening date to be determined.
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Brian Silvestry , a licensed real estate broker, has been selling residential and commercial real estate since 1999. He has sold in every neighborhood from Battery Park City to Washington Heights.
Harlem Taco & Bowl Company will open a store at 2288 Frederick douglass boulevard at the corner of West 123rd street. According to a worker at the store, they will open either at the end of this month or next month.
The Author- Brian Silvestry , a licensed real estate broker, has been selling residential and commercial real estate since 1999. He has sold in every Manhattan market from Battery Park City to Washington Heights.
Work continues on the Juice Generation store that will open on Astor Place in the Village. The website just says coming soon. Looks like we will have to wait a bit longer to get our Almond butter bliss bowls. This will be a great, high traffic location for them.
The Author- Brian Silvestry , a licensed real estate broker, has been selling residential and commercial real estate since 1999. He has sold in every Manhattan market from Battery Park City to Washington Heights.
Daily Mail takes a look at some of the reasons that storefronts remain empty and more and more are joining them. Part of what made Manhattan neighborhoods what they are is mom and pop. Most mom and pop are being forced out due to high rents but even recently, Petco closed a store on Manhattan’s upper west side with the reason being given that the rent was too high. This store was only open less than 2 years.
The Author- Brian Silvestry , a licensed real estate broker, has been selling residential and commercial real estate since 1999. He has sold in every Manhattan market from Battery Park City to Washington Heights.
Make my Cake will close their location on West 116th street and St.Nicholas avenue after 22 years due to rising rents. However, they will open a new location on Manhattan’s Upper West side at 795 Columbus avenue in the Columbus Square shopping center. They will take over the space that was occupied by Crumb’s.
According to Patch.com, Chipotle will open it’s first Manhattan location at 72 W 125th street after searching for years for an ideal space.
In one of the only retail locations on Manhattan’s Central Park west, a cleaners has just put signage for a soon to be opened store. The location was previously rented by a CPA that was there for many years. The cleaners will be two doors down from a new deli that opened last year on Manhattan’s upper west side near West 100th street.
In between the two stores, there is one more empty storefront.
According to signage on the building that Whole Foods will occupy in Harlem, the opening will take place this summer. No specific date is visible on the signage.
The site also already has a Burlington Coat Factory, American Eagle and Olive Garden but Whole Foods is the anchor tenant.
This photo was taken this week as a banner has gone up advertising the Park Pleasant Deli coming soon to the north west corner of West 100th street and Central Park west. This is one of only two retail locations on Central Park west below 101st street. Formerly, a dry cleaners, the space has been subdivided and the deli will take up the corner location and the other space appears to be still available for lease.
Levain Bakery is moving out of 400 sqft into a larger space around the corner on Amsterdam avenue. The new space will be 3000 sqft in total and is located at 351 Amsterdam avenue just two blocks away according to LINK. The asking rent on the new space which is close to West 77th street was $27,500.
