A first-quarter 2003 ground-breaking is tentatively scheduled for the project which will bring Downtown its first supermarket in 10 years. The retail-starved central business district has grown to 2,000 new apartments in the past five years. The nearest supermarket, a Publix, is a mile from Downtown.
"That new supermarket, if it comes through, will give Downtown its strongest development push in a decade," Dean Fritchen, senior associate, Coldwell Banker Commercial NRT, Winter Park, FL, tells GlobeSt.com.
Publix Supermarkets Inc. of Lakeland, FL and Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. of Tallahassee, FL, the state's largest grocers, are expected to vie intensely for the Downtown site, retail brokers intimate with the CBD submarket tell GlobeSt.com on condition of anonymity. Albertson's Inc. of Boise, IA is also expected to bid for the location.
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