PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS — A gourmet food market is set to open in a new large residential building in the neighborhood, replacing a previous plan for Fresh Fanatic to open in the Lincoln Road space.
Gourmet A’Fare will move into a 12,300-square-foot ground floor space in 31 Lincoln Rd., the L-shaped apartment building now under construction on Lincoln Road and Flatbush Avenue, brokers on the deal said.
This will be the second location for the gourmet market, which is set to open in the new year at Eleven33, a luxury apartment building on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint. The store will offer “high-quality meats, cheeses, fish, produce and prepared foods,” according to a release from the brokerage firm Kalmon Dolgin Affiliates.
Previously, the owner and developer of 31 Lincoln Rd., Thomas Anderson, had planned to include the popular Clinton Hill-based market Fresh Fanatic in the new building. But brokers for the Gourmet A’Fare deal say Fresh Fanatic is no longer a part of the Prospect-Lefferts Gardens project.
By including a grocery store in the building, Anderson plans to take advantage of incentives offered by the FRESH Program — a 2009 initiative that allows developers extra height on buildings that open full-service grocery stores in neighborhoods lacking healthy food options.
The city had approved the development to take advantage of the FRESH program, which has allowed the building to be nine stories tall, instead of the original eight, according to an attorney who worked on the application last year.
In an email sent after this story was originally published, Anderson said Gourmet A'Fare will "conform with all FRESH program requirements."
