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Whole Foods design approved despite traffic concerns

Whole Foods will anchor the retail building at 1 Riverside Ave. in Brooklyn.
Jacksonville Daily Record
Whole Foods will anchor the retail building at 1 Riverside Ave. in Brooklyn.

Traffic concerns again led Downtown Development Review Board debate Dec. 8 over the design of the Whole Foods Market-anchored retail center at One Riverside before members approved the plan.

The board voted 7-1 to approve final architectural designs for the 40,000-square-foot supermarket and an 8,000-square-foot first-phase retail building at 1 Riverside Ave. in Brooklyn.

The $250 million apartment and retail project by Atlanta-based Fuqua Development and TriBridge Residential LLC is under construction at the former Florida Times-Union campus.

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