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squee_bastard t1_j8vas4w wrote

I remember when WF was announced i was working in Soho and had a chat with a bunch of my coworkers (most of whom lived in jersey city at the time) and we theorized it was a year or two away from opening.

That was in 2019. Almost all of those people are long gone once WFH started in March 2020.

This feels like it’s finally going to happen before the end of the decade.

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platedserved t1_j8ve6mw wrote

Whole Foods opening up across the street was a selling point from the building I moved into back when I first came to Jersey City in 2016. I don’t know who I am without the empty promise of Whole Foods opening soon.

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squee_bastard t1_j8vff73 wrote

Oh I forgot about that false alarm, it was originally going to be be built in the parking lot between 280 and 270 Marin across from 60 Columbus. I remember reading somewhere that the ground was so polluted with chemicals that they decided to not build there.

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Miringanes t1_j8wooca wrote

Yeah it was hexavalent chromium. It was in the fill that was brought to site when they built those buildings.

Problem with the Marin site was they would have to significantly disturb the ground to build a new building and that would kick up dust and require remediation. They are effectively moving into an existing building which doesn’t have the same scope of remediation.

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platedserved t1_j8vhc5v wrote

I’m sure the ground at the new location is just as polluted with the added flavor of accumulated parking garage pollutants. The food might be chock full of palladium, tire particles, and automotive fluids but it’ll still beat going to Shoprite.

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ffejie t1_j8w9lw9 wrote

You know they don't grow the food at the store, right? gif

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platedserved t1_j8y200c wrote

Ohhh so you’re saying that the dirt ground being there for two years was because they were dragging their asses and not because they were planting crops?

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ffejie t1_j8y3vzk wrote

Nope, I was wrong. It's gonna be a farm.

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