NeoVista Fresh Market
Opening: TBA
Owner: NeoVista Equities
Previous Tenants: non-grocery tenants
Cooperative: unknown
Location: 52 James St, Albany, NY
Photographed: March 22, 2026
Contributor: Lars D.
We travel to Albany today, to see some pictures sent in by our longtime contributor Lars. NeoVista Fresh Market has announced its arrival at 52 James Street in the center of the city. It's the latest creation of the
NeoVista Equities private equity group with expanding holdings across the city, including the venerable Jack's Oyster House and
other restaurants. But this group is slightly strange, and it's not clear they actually are getting into the supermarket business despite
promising that it's coming soon.
Two of the three notices spotted by Lars on the storefront are outdated, and despite a valid permit to gut the building's interior, he reports there was no evidence of any such work going on inside. A
promised Brooklyn location at 836 Broadway seems to have similarly stagnated, or more accurately never made it beyond the planning phases (while
managing to rack up several health violations in the process).
NeoVista owns this building, and the East Stone Properties Corp. entity listed here appears to be related to NeoVista. Unlike
Key Food Island, another confusing grocer-in-the-making, NeoVista does appear to be a current, operating company (and appears to be legit if disorganized). So these NeoVista stores do seem likely to open. When? Nobody knows, apparently.
I'm keeping my eye on this for now, but in the meantime, here's this weekend's other posts!
As you mention, they have taken over Jack's restaurant, and have also been working up several other eating places under that branding around the city with differing themes (like Jack's burgers, Jack's this or that), so I think they may just be trying to do too many things at one time and that is why this one got left behind.
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