Whole Foods opening Jersey City location in 2020
An artist's rendering of the Jersey City Whole Foods set to open in 2020. Courtesy of STUDIO V Architecture
By on May 04, 2016 at 5:06 PM, updated May 04, 2016 at 8:47 PM
Whole Foods is coming to Jersey City.
The upscale supermarket announced this afternoon that it will open a market near the Grove Street PATH station in 2020.
Plans are for a 45,000-square-foot Whole Foods Market on the site of Metropolis Towers, at Columbus Drive and Marin Boulevard. That's more than twice the size of the Whole Foods in Montclair, one of Whole Foods' 15 New Jersey locations.
Count Sarah Karp Ward, 32, of Warren Street, is among those excited by the news. Two years ago, Ward lived in Manhattan near the Whole Foods at Columbus Circle and has been hoping for one near her new home.
She was heartbroken, she said, when she discovered that a sign that popped up in the spring of 2014 touting a Whole Foods at Warren and Bay streets turned out to be a false rumor.
"When we moved here we knew all there was was that sad ShopRite," she said. "My husband and I try to eat as much organic and GMO-free food as possible."
The Jersey City location is roughly the size of Whole Foods' newest stores in New Jersey, and those generally employ about 200 each, according to Whole Foods spokesman Michael Sinatra.
This will be the first Whole Foods in Hudson County. There will be on-site parking.
Sinatra noted that the Jersey City location will not be a 365 by Whole Foods Market, a new Whole Foods offshoot being rolled out this year in Los Angeles. It will also not sell alcohol, he said.
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