A second Southeastern Grocers area store conversion into an Aldi grocery store is planned in Clay County, based on a permit request to convert a Winn-Dixie in Fleming Island.
Clay County Economic Development Services is reviewing a July 30 permit request for the $1.75 million tenant improvement of the Eagle Harbor Winn-Dixie at 1545 County Road 220 into the Aldi banner.
Permit information indicates that about 24,740 square feet of space would be converted within the roughly 52,000-square-foot store.
Aldi bought Jacksonville-based Southeastern Grocers in March and said it will convert the Winn-Dixie and Harveys markets over time.
It said it would start with converting about 50 stores into the Aldi brand, leaving the rest as Winn-Dixie and Harveys.
Aldi stores are smaller than Winn-Dixie and Harveys markets.
T.D. Farrell Construction Inc. of Alpharetta, Georgia, is listed as the contractor. Eagle Harbor Investors LLC of Columbus, Georgia, is the landlord.
Property records show the Fleming Island store anchors a shopping center built in 1999.
The first identified area conversion is in Jacksonville.
Jacksonville is reviewing building plans to convert the Harveys Supermarket at 2261 Edgewood Ave. W. in Northwest Jacksonville into a 21,839-square-foot Aldi store at an estimated project cost of $1.7 million.
Harveys operated in a 46,189-square-foot space in the Edgewood Square Shopping Center.
T.D. Farrell Construction is the contractor. Interplan LLC of Altamonte Springs is the architect and civil engineer. Codes-ABC Inc. of Orange Park is handling code compliance.
Southeastern Grocers announced an agreement Aug. 16 to sell the company to German supermarket operator Aldi, whose U.S. headquarters are in Batavia, Illinois.
Southeastern Grocers said it would sell about 400 Winn-Dixie and Harveys supermarkets in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi to Aldi.
Aldi said March 7 it completed the acquisition and would convert some of the 400 stores beginning in the second half of 2024.
It said about 50 Winn-Dixie and Harveys stores would begin the conversion process in late 2024 and reopen as Aldi stores in 2025.
It said it intended for “a meaningful amount of Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarkets to continue to operate under their current banners.”
Aldi has about 2,400 U.S. stores and said the Southeastern Grocers acquisition is part of a plan to add 800 stores nationwide by 2028 through new openings and store conversions.
Aldi has at least 13 stores in Northeast Florida, comprising eight in Jacksonville and five in Clay, Nassau and St. Johns counties.
The company says it keeps its prices low because of its no-frills stores. It claims customers can save up to 40% on their grocery bills compared with traditional supermarkets and more than 15% compared with big-box discounters.