The Market Report

SuperFresh Opened: fall 2024 Owner:  Shee Chun Lee Previous Tenants:  Royal Farms (1960s-1979) > Consumers Food (1979-1980s) > CTown Supermarkets (closed 2018) > Food Universe Marketplace (2018-2024) Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  1188 Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn, NY Photographed:  June 20, 2025 Nothing like a brand-new renovation at a store that's been in business for decades! Here at 1188 Flatbush, a supermarket has occupied the premises since at least the 1960s, when it was a Royal Farms. Royal Farms remained until 1979, when it became a Consumers Food. Consumers was here through at least 1985, and the store later became a CTown which converted to Food Universe in 2018. Starting in 2024 , the store renovated extensively and doubled in size, and is now fully complete. The expansion (see here for the latest in-progress coverage) added a large new room for produce and meat, and added a service seafood and deli department in the original supermark...

SuperFresh Opened: fall 2024 Owner:  Shee Chun Lee Previous Tenants:  Royal Farms > ? > CTown Supermarkets (closed 2018) > Food Universe Marketplace (2018-2024) Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  1188 Flatbush Ave, Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY Photographed:  November 20, 2024 Key Food's momentum has been very steady and very hard to ignore. The cooperative, based in central Jersey, had around 100 stores ten years ago and in that time has nearly quadrupled their store count. They've established significant presences in New Jersey and Florida -- about 50 stores in each state -- and expanded into Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. But they originated in Brooklyn in 1937, and even close to home they've been hard at work. Here in Flatbush, one of their stores has roughly doubled in size with a major renovation. We previously saw this store under its previous brand, Food Universe (also affiliated with Key Food), in 2020. T...