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Photo by Suzanne Monteverdi/The Courier
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.
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 specu
lation 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.
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North Shore Farms is working to assume this storefront in Whitestone Plaza
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