The Fresh Market, a specialty grocery store, is planned for 2900 Fourth St. N., St. Petersburg.
Demolition crews razed the former Cocoanut Grove shopping center over the past weekend in preparation for the Fresh Market, the first one in St. Petersburg and the 23rd location in Florida. Cocoanut Grove had been vacant since late 2008.
Fresh Market bills itself as a place where customers can experience “the atmosphere of an old world European market” with a butcher shop, fish market, bakery, produce section, floral stands and delicatessen.
The Fresh Market is being built by the Holland Construction Corp., according to the firm’s Web site. Based in Hanover, Penn., Holland has an office in Sarasota. The project is expected to be finished in May with an opening slated for later in the year.
The store will feature 19,300 square feet, plus 2,350 square feet of office space and a 96-space parking lot, according to Holloand’s web site.
Fresh Market, a private company based in Greensboro, N.C., has about 91 stores in the Southeast, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic.
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