The Market Report

LIDL Opened: December 10, 2025 Owner:  Schwarz Group Previous Tenants:  none; Key Food previously on property Cooperative:  none Location:  120 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY Photographed:  December 12, 2025 Welcome to the newest LIDL! This store opened last week in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood, in a new-build building on a property previously occupied by a large, suburban-style Key Food. The Key Food was around 35,000 square feet with a ground-level parking lot. Of course, in the urban and rapidly growing Park Slope area, that wasn't long for this world, so the LIDL is both smaller (25,000 square feet) and lacking the surface parking lot. There does appear to be a garage, but I'm not sure whether it's free parking for LIDL or not. This store is also under a mile from the relatively new Downtown Brooklyn LIDL , and is also not far from Brooklyn's newest ALDI . At the other end of Park Slope is the new K-Slope Marketplace . To maximize retail space in the new buil...

K-Slope Marketplace Opened: November 2025 Owner:  Brian Kim Previous Tenants:  Steve's 9th St Market Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location: 329 9th St, Brooklyn, NY Photographed:  December 1, 2025 and February 11, 2024 (Steve's) Supermarket closures often prompt sadness, frustration, nostalgia. Here in Park Slope, the emotion that best describes the reaction to Steve's 9th Street Market closing is outrage . The longtime store -- a CTown that opened in 1998 and was owned by Steven Reifinger -- closed abruptly in September with no apparent explanation. Shortly thereafter, though, a Key Food operator announced they'd signed a lease and the store would reopen as K-Slope Marketplace. K-Slope's soft opening was November 23, and a grand opening is upcoming. At just under 20,000 square feet, Steve's (and now K-Slope) is the largest supermarket in Park Slope. It was also previously a vaudeville theater . Steve's was a pretty normal neighborhood supermarket -- a mai...