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...

Urban Market Opened: July 2026 Owner: Othman family Previous Tenants: none; Key Food previously on property Cooperative: Key Food Stores Location: 805 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY Photographed: July 15, 2026 Happy Sunday, and today's posts all concentrate on a relatively small area in central Brooklyn. Here in Prospect Heights, a tiny Key Food was demolished back in 2017 to make way for a new-build, multi-story development on the same site. One report at the time said the new development, including a new supermarket on the ground floor, could open as soon as 2019. Well, here we are in 2026, and the store has finally opened! It's still under the same ownership as the previous Key Food, but is now rebranded as Urban Market (though it's still part of Key Food). While I don't have the exact measurements, the new store is small, just as the old one was -- somewhere in the neighborhood of 6,000 square feet, actually. And while this store was under construction, Prospec...

Peekskill Supermarket Opened: 1969 Owner: Bermeo Group Previous Tenants: A&P (1959-2015) > Key Food (2016-2017) > Peekskill Green Grocers (2017-2019) > Apple Farm (2020-2025) Cooperative: Key Food Stores Location:  20 Welcher Ave, Peekskill, NY Photographed: July 10, 2026 The newest addition to Peekskill, New York's grocery scene is a freshly-opened (the official grand opening was today, in fact, but the store has been in the soft opening phase since July 1) independent in a building that's been home to many grocery stores over the years. You'd hardly know it, but this building started out as an A&P back in 1969, later getting an expansion in 1975. The original store was around 18,000 square feet, and the expansion brought it to around 34,000 square feet. A&P stayed here, with Sav-A-Center signage intact, up through the chain's bankruptcy. Key Food bought this store in the auction, and cut the sales floor back to about 20,000 square feet, open...