Who Gives A Shit: Are You Still Excited For Gowanus Whole Foods?
Ursula | Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 3:00PM 
Photo Via www.crainsnewyork.com
After years of Will-They-Won't-They, Ross and Rachel Whole Foods finally got its shit together and was full steam ahead on making the anticipated Gowanus location a reality. However, in the same amount of time that the natural food market has been dilly dallying about whether or not to set up shop in Gowanus, Cobble Hill got a Trader Joe's and Red Hook got a Fairway. My theory is that the folk over at WF just needed proof that Brooklynites actually buy fancy ass groceries, but according to the company it was the sheer cost of the project that delayed it for so long. At a Community Board meeting last Thursday, Whole Foods execs cited the need for massive environmental cleanup near the canal and said that unless the property was rezoned to accommodate a 56,000 sq foot retail space - instead of the 10,000 sq feet that had been approved initially - they would face "financial hardship."
UM, maybe don't buy land adjacent to A GIANT CESSPOOL?!
Who Gives A Shit, Whole Foods 
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