The Market Report

ALDI Opened: 2020 Previous Tenants:  Farm Fresh Location:  730 W 21st St, Ghent, Norfolk, VA Photographed:  December 2019-January 2020 A roughly 38,000 square foot Farm Fresh was split in half when it closed in the historic Ghent neighborhood, with ALDI opening up in the right half, taking just under 20,000 square feet. I actually captured the store just before its opening when it was almost complete but just missing the final touches. I took the above picture in early January 2020, and the below one just a few days earlier but in December 2019. And in the second picture here, you can actually see the Farm Fresh facade remaining to the left side. We also see that ALDI did only a little bit of renovation to the outside, leaving a lot of Farm Fresh's facade intact, but adding their own signature appearance. It's looking pretty good! Here's another supermarket in the Ghent neighborhood. Tomorrow, we're headed outside of Norfolk for our final Hampton Roads day. Portsmout...

Original Tenant: Farm Fresh Address: 1200 N Military Hwy, Norfolk, VA Opened:  unknown Closed:  2018 Later Tenants:  subdivided Photographed:  December 2019 I captured the Janaf Farm Fresh (not the Wards Corner Farm Fresh, as I originally thought ) after its closure but before anything else had moved in. The space was later remodeled and subdivided for an Advance Auto Parts, keeping most of the facade intact. The store looked quite nice when it was still in business, and I'd guess that it was one of the newer-built Farm Fresh locations. By the way, as you may know or have guessed, there's a large military presence in Norfolk (incidentally, my uncle was stationed here for a while), giving us names like Military Highway and also the neighborhood where this store is, Janaf (or Joint Army-Navy Air Force). We have two more stores right in this area, the Food Lion across the street and the ALDI just south. Tomorrow, we head into downtown for a store here on Grocery A...

Harris Teeter Opened: 2019 Previous Tenants:  Farm Fresh (closed 2018) Location:  179 W Ocean View Ave, Norfolk, VA Photographed:  December 2019 We are visiting Norfolk moving roughly north to south, and so we begin with what I believe to be the farthest-north supermarket in the city. This store is in the West Ocean View neighborhood, all the way up near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel (although slightly inland from that). This was also the first store I visited, as the house we rented when staying in this area was in this neighborhood and we didn't have the time or energy to explore other supermarkets the first night here. I got some surprises with this Harris Teeter, which due to its small size of only about 26,000 square feet, I assumed to be a much older Harris Teeter. Turns out that my knowledge of Norfolk supermarkets was terrible and this was a Farm Fresh until 2018, when that chain went under (mostly; I believe there are two stores that still use the Farm Fresh ...