NEW YORK - Organic retailer and trendsetter Whole Foods is expanding its reach in the Empire State. The grocer is continuing its Long Island expansion plan with a new flagship location in Garden City, New York, and will soon follow-up with the opening of another site in Massapequa, New York.
Newsday reported the new Garden City site will be a Whole Foods flagship location, spanning 53,000 square feet. The other four existing Whole Foods on Long Island range from 20,000 square feet to 47,500 square feet. According to the news source, the Garden City store, at 867 E. Gate Blvd., is being built on the site of a former Pepsi bottling plant.
Over in Massapequa, the planned Whole Foods will be in a former Babies R Us space, at 5214 Sunrise Hwy., in the Sunrise Promenade shopping center. It’s set to open in the fall of 2021 and will take up approximately 38,500 square feet.
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