A third area Aldi Inc. conversion has emerged, this one in Arlington.
The city is reviewing a permit application for the Winn-Dixie supermarket at 6060-10 Fort Caroline Road to be converted into an Aldi store at an estimated project cost of $1.75 million.
Aldi bought Jacksonville-based Southeastern Grocers in March and is starting to convert some of its Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarkets stores into the German-based company’s discount brand.
APD Engineering & Architecture PLLC of Victor, New York, is the architect. No contractor is specified.
Plans show Aldi will lease 22,919 square feet of the 47,188-square-foot space that Winn-Dixie uses.
That leaves 24,269 square feet available to the landlord to re-lease.
The shopping center is the Fort Caroline Trading Post on 8.55 acres east of University Boulevard.
Fort Caroline TP LLC, based in Rockledge, paid $7 million for the shopping center in May. The LLC’s name was registered with the state in March.
The project calls for the retrofit of an existing retail grocery store into an Aldi grocery store.
Winn-Dixie anchors the roughly 80,000-square-foot center that includes Planet Fitness and Citi Trends. It was built in 1984.
A LoopNet.com real estate listing for the investment sale of the property said: “Aldi acquiring Winn-Dixie adds credibility and potential value add, as Aldi may shrink the store and give back more inline space.”
The first two Aldi conversions appear to be in Northwest Jacksonville and in Clay County.
In Northwest Jacksonville, the city is reviewing building plans to convert the Harveys Supermarket at 2261 Edgewood Ave. W. into a 21,839-square-foot Aldi at an estimated project cost of $1.7 million. Harveys operated in a 46,189-square-foot space in the Edgewood Square Shopping Center.
In Clay County, Aldi proposes to convert a Winn-Dixie in Fleming Island. Clay County Economic Development Services is reviewing a permit request for the $1.75 million tenant improvement of the Eagle Harbor Winn-Dixie at 1545 County Road 220 into the Aldi banner. Permit information indicates that about 24,740 square feet of space would be converted within the roughly 52,000-square-foot store.
Aldi bought Jacksonville-based Southeastern Grocers in March and said it planned to convert about 50 stores into the Aldi brand, leaving the rest as Winn-Dixie and Harveys.
Aldi stores are smaller than Winn-Dixie and Harveys markets.
For the first two identified area stores, T.D. Farrell Construction Inc. of Alpharetta, Georgia, is listed as the contractor.
Southeastern Grocers announced an agreement Aug. 16 to sell the company to German supermarket operator Aldi, whose U.S. headquarters are in Batavia, Illinois.
Southeastern Grocers said it would sell about 400 Winn-Dixie and Harveys supermarkets in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi to Aldi.
Aldi said March 7 it completed the acquisition and would convert some of the 400 stores beginning in the second half of 2024.
It said about 50 Winn-Dixie and Harveys stores would begin the conversion process in late 2024 and reopen as Aldi stores in 2025.
It said it intended for “a meaningful amount of Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarkets to continue to operate under their current banners.”
Aldi has about 2,400 U.S. stores and said the Southeastern Grocers acquisition is part of a plan to add 800 stores nationwide by 2028 through new openings and store conversions.
Aldi has at least 13 stores in Northeast Florida, comprising eight in Jacksonville and five in Clay, Nassau and St. Johns counties.