The Fresh Market

ysynut.wordpress.com
approved plans to build a gourmetgrocery , at the mostly empty Shaker Loudonb Plaza at the corner of Routes 9 and 155. Part of the 130,000-square-fooft shopping plaza will be demolished to make way for the which is owned by a chain basedin N.C. Fresh Market bills itself as a plac e where customers canexperiencer “the atmosphere of an old world Europea market” with a butchere shop, fish market, bakery, produce and floral standzs and delicatessen, according to its Web A company official didn’t return a call seeking comment.
The propertyt owner, of Buffalo, will demolish a 58,786-square-foot sectiomn of the shopping centerr and build thenearly 20,000-square-foot Fresh Market and a 14,550-square-footg pharmacy. The new development will be called FreshMarket Commons. The plazaq currently has a few tenants, includingf and . Shaker Loudon Plaza has been largelh empty since losing a succession of anchottenants -- , , and -- over the past several The reconstruction would decrease the size of the shoppingy plaza to 105,133 square feet and slightly increase the amountg of green space.
Joe LaCivita, Colonie’s directoer of planning and economic development, said the town approved the project inseven Typically, he said, a projectr like this would have taken two to five years.