New Details Unveiled For Building Replacing Crown Heights Grocery

CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — New building permits filed for the Nostrand Avenue property where Associated Supermarket stands have revealed new details about the impending redevelopment of the site.

The permits, first reported by New York YIMBY, were filed earlier this week for the 975 Nostrand Ave. property, whose redevelopment has been a source of controversy in the neighborhood given the closure of the grocery store.

Associated closed in late July and is slated to be replaced by a new supermarket when the development is complete.

The new building, proposed to be five stories tall, will include 157,720 square feet of retail space, 24,516 square feet of commercial space and 946 square feet of community facility space, according to the permits. Its 178 residences will have an average unit scope of 886, meaning they are likely rentals, according to YIMBY. The building also will include 175 enclosed parking spaces.

The permits add more detail to general plans shared by Hudson Companies, who bought the property from Midwood Development earlier this year.

Midwood and Associated owner Pablo Espinal reached a deal — which Hudson has agreed to honor — to have Espinal run a new, bigger supermarket in the new building. The new supermarket will take up 21,000 square feet of the commercial space, according to the deal.

Hudson has said the new development will include mixed-income housing, small-scale, neighborhood retail and the community facility space.

Developers have not yet revealed a timeline for when they expect the new building to be completed.

In the meantime, elected officials have set up a farmstand to provide groceries for residents near the market, who had long worried its closure would turn the section of Crown Heights into a food desert.

The farmstand will be open on Fridays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and will include food scrap collection starting next week between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. It was funded with money from Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and Council Member Laurie Cumbo.