Move Over Key Food: Here Comes Another Condo (Again)

June 15, 2015 — Another Key Food has bitten the dust to make way for what will probably be a new condo. Again. No, this is not a repeat from February of this year. The supermarket in question this time is — erm, was — located at 946 Myrtle Avenue, and it will be replaced by a new seven-story, 132-unit apartment building designed by Karl Fischer. YIMBY reports that "[Fischer] filed a new building application last October," and has obtained a rendering of the project. YIMBY adds that, according to the most recent filing, the building will be spread across 163,631 square feet of residential space, for an average unit of 1,239 square feet. That's a lot of new people coming to a neighborhood that will be down one supermarket. Let's hear it for limited resources! There may be light at the end of the grocery-less tunnel, however: it's a mixed-use building, which means there will be a commercial tenant. Hopefully, it will be another supermarket, but it's too soon to tell. "The rendering," explains YIMBY, "still depicts the 10-story version of the building, not the squatter 7-story structure sketched out on the new permits." We're guessing a few folks in the neighborhood don't care what the end product looks like as long as they get a comparably priced supermarket to replace the one they lost four months ago.

Rendering: Karl Fischer Architect.