CTown Supermarkets
Recognize this store? Probably not. It's been so long that I barely remember it. This was a longtime Met Foodmarket, which was renovated around 2013 (and which I posted way back when, in 2018). In 2018, it was converted to an Ideal Food Basket, which closed around 2020. After sitting vacant for a few years, the store got a pretty big renovation and reopened as a CTown -- presumably under new ownership -- last month.
The store is only about 5200 square feet, so it's quite small. But CTown has changed the layout and setup in general, and you now walk up a ramp to enter in the front-right corner to the produce department. Meats are on the back wall with dairy/frozen in the last aisle on the left side. Met/Ideal's layout was very different. You entered to produce on the left side, with meat on the back wall and a service butcher counter at the end of the first aisle. Dairy/frozen were on the right side, with deli/bakery in the front-right corner where the entrance is now. There's no longer any service departments here.
Sunset Park has a large Mexican and Central American community, and this store definitely reflects that -- perhaps more than the more mainstream past supermarkets.
This doesn't feel quite as much like a brand-new store like the other new CTown that opened just two weeks after this one. But that one is probably under different ownership.
It looks like some fixtures are left over from Met/Ideal, such as possibly this meat case. The flooring is new, but similar to the previous flooring.
Like the AFB we recently saw in Hyde Park, this store has digital aisle markers. Notice the section for weekly sale promotions below the aisle signage.
I believe there are five aisles in total here, including the produce department. Beer, dairy, and frozen are in the last aisle. Below, we're looking towards the back of the store. Notice the two black poles visible below -- you can see them before the renovation in this picture.
Looking up towards the front of the store in the last aisle...
And the front-end...
Opened: June 6, 2025
Owner: unknown
Previous Tenants: Met Foodmarkets > Ideal Food Basket
Cooperative: Krasdale Foods
Location: 5817 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Photographed: June 20, 2025
This CTown is located at 5th and 59th, and about 12 blocks north at 5th and 47th there's another CTown that recently expanded. I don't know if this shares ownership with that one. Don't miss the rest of this weekend's posts here!
Saturday
- Checking in on a Village Super Market-owned ShopRite
- CTown opens new stores in Brooklyn (this post) and the Bronx
Sunday
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