The city issued a permit Oct. 30 for German discount grocer Aldi to build-out about 25,000 square feet of the closed 31,000-square-foot Harveys Supermarket Downtown.
M.E. Construction Inc. of Melbourne is the contractor for the $810,000 project at 777 N. Market St.
APD Engineering & Architecture PLLC of Victor, New York, is the project engineer.
Aldi is expected to open Downtown by early 2026 in much of the Harveys space. The remainder will be available for lease to another tenant. The store is at southeast Union and Market streets near the ramp to the Arlington Expressway.
The Shopping Center Group, which is representing the property, is marketing 6,485 square feet of sublease shell space as available Dec. 10.
The city issued permits Sept. 22 for Prime Sign Installation LLC of Jacksonville to put up three signs that will show the Aldi name and logo at a project cost of $6,400.
Work on the conversion has been underway.
On Aug. 26, the city issued a permit for M.E. Construction to demolish some portions of the interior and exterior of the building at a project cost of $183,245. That followed a permit Aug. 18 for landscape and site work at $160,000.
The Harveys Supermarket closed in late June.
The store was built in 1981 for Winn-Dixie, which later converted into the Harveys banner.
In March 2024, Aldi bought Jacksonville-based 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 closed for the construction.
Aldi Inc. continues to convert the Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarket stores, including 13 in Northeast Florida, on its path to expanding its discount grocery format throughout the Southeast.
Stores.Aldi.US shows 17 stores in Clay, Duval, Nassau and St. Johns counties. Those include at least five of the 13 stores Aldi bought.
It appears that Aldi will about double its pre-purchase presence in Northeast Florida to 25 locations.
The U.S. headquarters for Aldi is in Batavia, Illinois.