![]() It will provide the kind of retail activation that we know improves the condition of our streets and helps encourage walkability, preventing needless car trips and additional vehicle miles traveled.” That’s why we’re looking forward to welcoming Whole Foods as part of this project in the City Center neighborhood. “We have also heard demand from existing local residents for additional grocery options. With the large number of units under construction, we know the residential population of downtown is growing,” said Betsy Brennan, who runs the nonprofit business association. “The Downtown San Diego Partnership has long been an advocate for retail that serves the daily needs of our urban community and contributes to activation and walkability. The grocer was previously attached to the long-promised-but-never-delivered 7th & Market project, which was derailed by a labor-related lawsuit, the pandemic and financing challenges. The supermarket, which specializes in organic produce and catering to a variety of dietary preferences, has been interested in the downtown market for several years. It joins other Whole Foods stores in Hillcrest, La Jolla and Del Mar. The downtown location, in the city’s historically commercial- and government-focused core, will be the Amazon-owned chain’s fourth in San Diego County. Whole Foods Market will occupy most of Front & A’s ground floor, as well as the building’s mezzanine level, which includes separate spaces for an employee lounge and customer seating area, the plans show. Holland Partner Group is the project’s general contractor and Carrier Johnson + CULTURE is the project architect. Additionally, on the top floor, the project will have a rooftop lounge with a pool, spa and outdoor terrace, he said. The project also includes an amenity deck on the ninth floor with a dog run, indoor lounge, meeting spaces and an indoor-outdoor fitness center, Schertzer said. The building will have 693 parking spaces - 518 spaces reserved for residents and 175 spaces reserved for shoppers - spread across two levels of underground parking and six levels of above-ground, enclosed parking. The county traded 3.9 acres of land to the developers in exchange for $5 million and an underground tunnel that connects the San Diego Central Courthouse to the county Central Jail.įront & A is described in architectural plans submitted to the city as a 343-foot-tall tower with commercial space and 450 residential units, 19 of which will be deed-restricted for very low-income families making 50 percent or less of the area median income. We look forward to Whole Foods serving as a neighborhood amenity and furthering the growing connection between the western and central districts of downtown.”īounded by Union, West A, Front and West B streets, Front & A takes up one of three blocks that Vancouver, Wash.-based Holland Partner Group and its partner Japanese builder North America Sekisui House acquired from the county in June 2019 after winning a bid to redevelop the former San Diego County Courthouse property. “The redevelopment vision for these blocks is to create a true mixed-use village that supports an ecosystem of residential, office and dining options, serving not just our residents and office tenants, but energizing downtown as a whole. Our downtown has long demanded more of this important retail and the neighborhood will greatly benefit from the activation this use provides,” said Brent Schertzer, an executive with Holland. “We are thrilled to be bringing Whole Foods as a much-needed, new high-end full-service grocery option to downtown San Diego. Holland Partner Group’s Front & A high-rise, which is under construction, is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2026 and is meant to complement the developer’s nearly finished West apartment and office complex just a block away.
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