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FreshDirect Breaks Ground on Bx HQ

NEW YORK CITY—The online grocer is building a 500,000-square-foot facility at the Harlem River Yard, which will house its corporate headquarters, as well as its food manufacturing and distribution facility.

By Paul Bubny | Updated on December 23, 2014

NEW YORK CITY—Online grocer FreshDirect broke ground Monday on its long-awaited new headquarters facility in the South Bronx. The relocation from Long Island City in Queens will keep the company’s 3,000 jobs, and tax ratables, in the city, but a $128-million package of state and municipal incentives announced in 2012 to keep FreshDirect from moving to New Jersey drew criticism from politicians, including then-mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio. The mayor did not attend Monday’s ceremony, although he has not spoken publicly about the incentives since taking office.

Published reports say that the groundbreaking ceremony, attended by State Sen. Ruben Diaz and his son, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., drew a handful of protesters. Demonstrators from South Bronx Unite turned out to express their concern that delivery trucks entering and leaving the new 500,000-square-foot facility at the Harlem River Yard would exacerbate the neighborhood’s existing air-quality issues. The company has promised to begin converting to electric-powered trucks, and the new facility will include charging stations for the fleet.

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