And we’re cookin!
Grocery store ‘coming soon’ to former Met Food site in Boerum Hill
An unnamed supermarket (left) will fi nally replace the long-demolished Smith Street Met Foods (right). Photos by Craig Hubert/Nicholas Strini
BY CRAIG HUBERT
Big, brightly colored signs
saying “new supermarket
coming soon” and promising
to bring “fresh food back to the
community” have appeared in
the fi rst-fl oor windows of 205
Smith Street in recent days.
“I really hope it’s a decent
grocery store. We could really
use it,” said a local who tipped
off Brooklyn Paper’s sister
website Brownstoner to the
new signs.
There was an outcry in 2014
when new owners revealed
they planned to demolish the
building and Met Food would
close. Later that year, instead
of razing the one-story structure,
the developers fi led plans
to add a fl oor and change the
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facade. In 2015, workers at the
site said it would be a grocery
store, but the bottom fl oor has
remained empty.
Currently, Lenox Hill
Radiology occupies the top
story. It appears that the new
supermarket will be located
in one of the ground fl oor
retail spaces, while another
space, on the corner of Baltic
and Smith, looks to soon be
home to a Bank of America
branch, based on signs hanging
in the windows.
Alex Adjmi, a developer
who was pardoned by former
President Trump after
serving 44 months in prison
between 1996 and 2000 for
his involvement in a moneylaundering
scheme, is listed
as the owner on building
permits. Jackson Group, Aurora
Capital Associates and
ACHS Management bought
the building for $18.5 million
in 2014.
Marcelo Klajnbart of
ACHS Management, the leasing
agent on the project, and
Adjmi did not respond to a request
for comment.
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