Two-Floor Fairway Market Is Headed for Tribeca's Greenwich Street

A Fairway Market is planned to open in the bottom two floors of this office building at 255 Greenwich Street in Tribeca. Photo: Carl Glassman/Tribeca Trib

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Sep. 30, 2013

With an eye on Downtown's growing population and the towering redevelopment of the World Trade Center site, Fairway Market executives have chosen lower Tribeca for their next store, to open in fall of 2014.

In an announcement on Monday, Fairway said it would be opening a two-story, 52,242-square-foot store at 255 Greenwich St., at Murray. The store will be located a block south of Tribeca's Whole Foods and a block west of Amish Market. It will be Fairway’s 16th supermarket in the Tri-State area.

Fairway has signed a long-term lease with Jack Resnick and Sons, owners of the office building, which includes Borough of Manhattan Community College as a tenant. In a statement, the real estate company's CEO, Burt Resnick, called Greenwich Street "the spine that connects Tribeca with Downtown" and said he sees the store as serving multiple neighborhoods in Lower Manhattan. Eventually, Greenwich Street will again connect northern and southern Lower Manhattan through the World Trade Center site, which will be open to pedestrians and authorized vehicles only.


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Just to note, I did battle

Submitted by admin on Wed, 05/15/2019 - 9:51am.

Just to note, I did battle with the Lower Manhattan Development Corp over the rebuilding of the WTC site as they wanted to “restore the traffic grid.” Which never made any sense to me. 

LMDC President Kevin Rampe and his sidekick Matt Higgins wanted to extend Fulton and Dey Streets, with traffic, through the rebuilt WTC site. And they were considering doing the same with Cortlandt. 

Greenwich Street was re-extended through the site and then closed off when, shockingly, the NYPD advised that they were not about to allow traffic to run through what was considered the No. 1 terrorist target site in the USA.
 
Which ended the ill begotten idea of extending Fulton, Dey and Cortlandt Streets and “restoring the traffic grid.”
 
Imagine the insanity in downtown today if the LMDC’s myopic plan had been realized. 
 
So little vision was applied to rebuilding “Ground Zero,” costing us all who knows how much. Its greatest use now is as a case study for how not to do things.