Food Lion closing all First Coast stores

[JeffreyS]

Don't worry.  With the mobility fee moratorium we'll build ourselves out of this.  Just wait and see.

+1000 Only problem is the city council will probably try to use this as a quote from you to prove the moratorium isn't a gross  betrayal of their constituents.

[blizz01]

I think that it still functions as a Harvey's distro center - right?

[Ocklawaha]

GREEN COVE SPRINGS? It's alive and well.

FOOD LION built a 793,500 square foot warehouse complex south of town near US-17 and on the CSX mainline. The warehouse has two railroad tracks within the fence and over 7 acres of parking. The complex was built in 1988 and expanded to its current size in 1992 only to be closed and abandoned by 1973. The property is laid out so that the warehouse complex can be expanded to 900,000 square feet and lease space is currently on the market. Amazingly not only is this thing near US-17 and on CSX, it is less then 5 miles from the Port of Green Cove Springs and the former LEE Field Naval Air Station airport. Any real estate company that picks up on those facts should have no problem in filling it up.

As of 2004, Georgia-based Harvey's Supermarkets, owned by the same group that owns FOOD LION but operated as a completely independent subsidiary, signed an agreement to take about a third of the space in a Green Cove Springs warehouse. Harvey's initially leased 244,000 square feet of freezer/cooler space in the old Food Lion distribution center.  Harvey's runs a three-shift operation at the warehouse employing about 100 people. Harveys has added about $2.5 million dollars in improvements to the complex.

Harveys  has a nice store in Green Cove Springs (actually Magnolia Springs) just north of town and as they are just across the river from me, I can tell you that Harveys keeps the highway polished along SR-16. This probably isn't going to be the disaster it might seem to be, I fully expect Harveys will come away with some if not all of these stores in the near future. I've spotted their trucks over at the FOOD LION in Palencia.

Harveys Supermarket

Harveys stores are mainly located in rural markets within the Deep South with a focus towards quality foods (primarily in meat and produce) and service. Since being acquired by Delhaize in 2003 (marking the end of US-based ownership), over a dozen Food Lion stores in rural areas have been converted to Harveys. Unlike Bloom and Bottom Dollar however, which are merely extensions of the Food Lion brand, Harveys appears to operate separately within the Food Lion LLC structure and is seen more as a subsidiary. As of December 2009, there were 70 Harveys stores in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina.

OCKLAWAHA

[duvaldude08]

Twelve more dead strip malls in Jacksonville is definitely not good news.

Yup. The majority of the Food Lions in the city are on the Westside also. So the strips malls on the WS will be hit the harest.  The better think fast about a replacement teanet. I know the old Food Lion on baymeadows has been Baileys gym for years now. But all the other closed Food Lions around town are still empty.

[I-10east]

Good news for one of the old Food Lion spots, the one on Normandy next to Dollar Tree is gonna be turned into a Save-A-Lot. It has the perfect 'medium' size too.

[strider]

The old Food Lion on the 4700 block (?) of Main is being converted into a Save-A-Lot as well.

[Ocklawaha]

Wow, this economic recovery is even better then I suspected!

[Arlingtondude]

The Food Lion on Merrill Road in Arlington is going to be converted to a Walmart Neighborhood Market:

http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2012-06-18/story/walmart-neighborhood-markets-moving-first-coasts-vacant-food-lion-stores