There's been so much confusion over whether or not a Whole Foods will open up in Gowanus — last summer, the company stated: "the Brooklyn Paper published a story this week that inaccurately suggests we have definitively decided not to pursue the development of a store on our property at 3rd Street and 3rd Avenue and further that we are planning to sell the property. This is simply not true."
Now that same paper reports that the company will at the very least be cleaning up their toxic site, starting on the 11th with completion expected in three months. A spokesman for the grocery store said, “There hasn’t been any determination when — or if — we will open a store. We’re focused on the present, the clean-up of the property. Then we’ll take it from there and identify what we’ll do next.”
Perhaps they're waiting to see how this whole Superfund thing shakes out.
