One of 13 Southeastern Grocers stores identified for conversion, the Monument Road Winn-Dixie is in city review to be remodeled for an Aldi Inc. discount location.
The city is reviewing a permit application for an estimated $810,000 project to renovate about 24,200 square feet of the roughly 48,000-square-foot store for Aldi’s discount format.
The remaining space will be available for another tenant.
The store is at 1531 Monument Road in Monument Pointe Plaza at southwest Monument and St. Johns Bluff roads in East Arlington.
The site is across St. Johns Bluff Road from Jacksonville Executive at Craig Airport.
Jacksonville-based Southeastern Grocers projects the Winn-Dixie store will close in mid-August.
ADP Engineering & Architecture of Victor, New York, is the architect.
Brochures for Monument Pointe Plaza show “Aldi Coming Soon” at the Winn-Dixie.
An associate said July 29 the store would close Aug. 17.
“We can confirm the Winn-Dixie store located at 1531 Monument Road will convert to a new ALDI store,” said a statement May 30 from Meredith Hurley, senior director of Communications and Community for Southeastern Grocers.
“All associates working at the Monument Point Winn-Dixie store received official advance notice that their store is projected to close mid-August to convert to an ALDI location,” Hurley said.
“To ensure a smooth transition for our associates, SEG will continue working diligently with ALDI to provide support and opportunities to each associate at converting stores, including having the first opportunity to apply to roles at newly converted ALDI stores or remain with Winn-Dixie and transfer to another store.”
The landlord is Isram Realty & Management Inc.
The Duval County Property Appraiser shows the 48,199 -square-foot supermarket was built in 1985.
Other tenants include Vito’s Pizza and Cricket Wireless. Goodyear Tires operates on the western end of the property.
Aldi stores are about half the size of Winn-Dixie stores, which generally leaves additional space for landlords to lease.
The conversions so far appear to be at least doubling Aldi’s presence in Northeast Florida. Aldi had 13 stores before the first SEG conversion.
Aldi Inc. continues to close and convert the Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarket stores it bought on its path to expanding its discount grocery format throughout the Southeast.
Aldi has not announced when all of the converted stores will reopen.
In March 2024, Aldi bought Southeastern Grocers Inc., which operated about 400 Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarkets in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi.
Aldi then started converting some stores to its banner.
A group led by former Southeastern Grocers LLC CEO Anthony Hucker bought 170 of stores back from Aldi this year and said it would continue to operate others targeted for an Aldi conversion until they close for the construction.
The U.S. headquarters for Aldi is in Batavia, Illinois.
Aldi has about 2,400 U.S. stores and said the Southeastern Grocers acquisition was part of a plan to add 800 stores nationwide by 2028 through new openings and store conversions.
Stores.Aldi.US shows 15 stores in Clay, Duval, Nassau and St. Johns counties, including one that will open in August.
Southeastern Grocers has confirmed that the Clay, Duval and St. Johns county stores, most of them Winn-Dixies, that were or will be closed for renovation include:
One in Clay County that opened as Aldi on June 26.
Eight in Duval County, including a Harveys Supermarket in Northwest Jacksonville that was renovated into Aldi space and opened in March and a Winn-Dixie in Brierwood that is slated to open Aug. 13.
One in Nassau County and three in St. Johns County.