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JULY North Shore Farms supermarket opening
in Whitestone delayed again
BY SUZANNE MONTEVERDI
SMONTEVERDI@QNS.COM / @SMONT76
Whitestone residents will have to wait a while
longer for a long-anticipated supermarket as
the chain faces further delays, a spokesperson
told the Courier.
North Shore Farms’ newest location at Whitestone
Plaza will open “no later than the second week of October,”
according to spokesman George Tsiatis, though the
company hopes to be operational sooner. The supermarket
chain, after the Courier made an inquiry in March,
indicated that a June opening was in the works.
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Despite the delay, the company still “is committed to
the space and the neighborhood,” Tsiatis stressed, and
North Shore Farms signage will go up at the location
during the second week of July.
“We hoped to have already been open, but we needed
to do much more extensive work on the space than had
been anticipated and ran into some delays that were beyond
our control,” the spokesman said. “We are continuing
to work diligently on the space every day to prepare
it for opening.”
The deal with North Shore Farms was first announced
in October 2016 after months of speculation in the community
and the storefront was first slated for a summer
2017 opening. The chain will occupy 23,818 square feet
at the mall on 153rd Street and 10th Avenue and feature
locally sourced foods at affordable prices.
After Waldbaum’s closure at the Whitestone site in November
2015, locals were left without a neighborhood supermarket.
Shortly before North Shore Farms announced
its lease agreement in 2016, residents drafted a petition
for a new supermarket and delivered it to the Feil Organization,
owner of the shopping center.
North Shore Farms is working to assume this storefront in Whitestone Plaza Photo by Suzanne Monteverdi/The Courier
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