The city issued a permit Oct. 9 for the conversion of the Harveys Supermarket in Edgewood Square in Northwest Jacksonville into an Aldi store at a project cost of $810,000.
T.D. Farrell Construction Inc. of Alpharetta, Georgia, is the contractor for the 21,839-square-foot project at 2261 Edgewood Ave. W.
Harveys operates in a 46,189-square-foot space. Aldi stores are smaller than the Harveys and Winn-Dixie supermarkets.
Interplan LLC of Altamonte Springs is the architect and civil engineer. Codes-ABC Inc. of Orange Park is handling code compliance.
Jacksonville-based Southeastern Grocers, the parent company of Harveys and Winn-Dixie, said July 11 that plans were being finalized to convert the Harveys into an Aldi store.
The initial project cost estimate of $1.7 million on the permit application was corrected after pricing came back from subcontractors, says the active permit status.
Two more area Southeastern Grocer stores have been identified for conversion into Aldi – a second in Jacksonville and one in Clay County.
The city is reviewing a permit application for the Winn-Dixie at 6060-10 Fort Caroline Road in Arlington to be converted at an estimated project cost of $1.75 million. Plans show Aldi will lease 22,919 square feet of the 47,188-square-foot space that Winn-Dixie uses in the Fort Caroline Trading Post.
In Clay County, Aldi proposes to convert a Winn-Dixie in Fleming Island at an estimated project cost of $1.75 million. The Eagle Harbor Winn-Dixie is at 1545 County Road 220. About 24,740 square feet of space would be converted within the roughly 52,000-square-foot store.
Southeastern Grocers announced an agreement Aug. 16, 2023, 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.
Aldi said about 50 Winn-Dixie and Harveys stores would begin the conversion process in late 2024 and reopen as Aldi stores in 2025.
“Transparency and timely notification are top priorities for both ALDI and SEG leadership,” said Meredith Hurley, Southeastern Grocers senior director of communications and community, in an emailed statement in July.
She said the Harveys Supermarket along Edgewood Avenue will convert to a new Aldi store “to best support the Jacksonville community.”
She provided no details on the time line for the conversion.
Aldi 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.