The Market Report

Key Food Supermarkets Opening:  TBA Owner: Pablo Espinal Previous Tenants: none; A&P (late 1960s-ca. 1990) > Associated (1991-2021) previously on property Cooperative: Key Food Stores Location: 975 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn, NY Photographed: July 15, 2026 Keep an eye on this ground floor space at 975 Nostrand in Crown Heights, Brooklyn: It's soon to become a Key Food supermarket, according to a real estate listing . (Knowing Key Food, it's entirely possible it'll actually open under a different name but still be connected to Key Food.) The supermarket will be around 17,000 square feet, so substantial but not that big. The interior build-out doesn't seem to have started yet, but the building is complete so now it's up to the supermarket operator. Who will run this Key Food? Well, it seems that it'll be run by Pablo Espinal. He had previously owned an Associated at this spot for 20 years before the store closed to make way for the new development, with m...

Food Bazaar Supermarket Opened: May 28, 2026 Owner: Spencer An Previous Tenants: none; Finast (closed ca. 1980) > CTown (1981-early 1990s) > Pioneer (late 1990s) > Food Bazaar (ca. late 1990s-2023) previously on property Cooperative:  none Location:  34-20 Junction Blvd, Corona, NY Photographed: May 29, 2026 and May 30, 2026 Welcome back to Jackson Heights (or Corona -- we're right on the border here). It's been a long time, but way back in January 2020, I posted the Food Bazaar that was here, a roughly 25,000 square foot store with a large parking lot. The store was pretty nice, but old -- in fact, it was built back around 1960 as a Finast. By 1981, it had become a CTown. Now, in 1988, Francis An had opened a CTown in a former Waldbaum's about a mile south. At some point, he also took over this CTown, and in the late 1990s, both stores became Pioneers, I believe along with one in New Jersey . By around 2000, they left CTown and were rebranded Food Bazaar, be...