Downtown Loses Highly Anticipated Whole Foods

(Crystal Proenza is associate editor of Real Estate Florida.)

MIAMI-Plans for Downtown’s first major grocery store located at MDM Development Group and MetLife’s Metropolitan Miami mixed-use project have been canceled. Whole Foods has pulled out of its commitment to open a 45,000-square-foot store at the site on SE Second Avenue, according to a report by the South Florida Business Journal.

“Over the past two years, the scope of the downtown Miami project has changed from its initial design,” Whole Foods’ Florida region told GlobeSt.com in a statement. “After a thorough review, Whole Foods Market has determined that this project no longer fits with our current business model for new store development.”