Whole Foods To Open Fort Greene Market In January

FORT GREENE, BROOKLYN — Whole Foods Market has officially announced an opening date for its new Fort Greene location. The 40,000-square-foot Whole Foods Market 365 — the more affordable offshoot of the health food grocery chain — will open on Jan. 31, according to a press release.

New York's first Whole Foods Market 365 will open on the ground level of a brand-new highrise at 292 Ashland Place, according to store officials.

The store will sell a variety of organic foods and all products will be free of artificial flavors, colors, sweeteners, preservatives and hydrogenated fats, according to the press release.

Shoppers will also have access to a coffee bar, an Orwashers bakery, a Next Level Burger joint and a Juice Press juice bar inside the store.

Two Trees, the Brooklyn-based developers behind the Fort Greene highrise, first announced the Whole Foods would be coming to the neighborhood in January.

300 Ashland, as the building is called, will also feature a 20,000-square-foot public plaza, four Brooklyn Academy of Music movie screens, a Brooklyn Public Library branch and a cultural space for 651 ARTS and the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, developers said.

When the Whole Foods Market 365 outpost opens in January, it will become the seventh in the country and the first on the east coast.

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