Fairway Market, which launched its first store on the Upper We🍰st Side in the 1930s, is cominಌg to the World Trade Center neighborhood.
The high-end grocery chain just signed a lease for a jumbo store of more than 52,000 square feet at 255 Greenwich St. at the corner of Mu𒁏rray Street, two blocks north of the WTC.
The lo🌜cation is an office tower owned by Jack Re꧟snick & Sons, the prominent commercial and residential development company.
Terms of the deal were not immediately available.
Publicly traded Fairway Group Holdings operates 14 Fairway markets in the metropolitan area. Five are in Manhattan, including the legendary original at Broadway and 74th S🍷treet and aไ mammoth Harlem outpost.
Th🔯e new do🍷wntown store, to open next year, marks the latest entry into the thriving FiDi area.
The district, with a booming re🃏sidential population, was onc💛e criticized for not offering enough retail, especially better-quality food stores.
That’s changed dramatically in rꦓecent years with the arrival of Gristedes, Whole Foods and the 55 Fulton Mar⭕ket.
The new Fairway will have more than 11,000 square feet on the ground floor and the rest in the concourse, with a main entrance at the corner of Greenwich and 🌄Murray streets.
Fairway sharesಞ gained 1.2 percent Friday, to close aꦚt $25.13.
They are u🉐p nearly 45 percent since Fairway went public on April 16.
The company reported adjusted Ebitda, or earning🍃s before interest, tax🐠es, depreciation and amortization, leaped 40 percent in the quarter ended June 30, to $989,000.
Revenue in the period increased nearly 21 percent, to $186.8 million, compared to the yea♓r-earlier period, boosted mainly by the opening of three new stores.
Same-store sales gained 1.4 perc꧃ent in the quarter.