Aldi continues building-out within the closed Winn-Dixie in Brierwood Village Plaza to convert a little more than half of the space into its discount grocery format.
The city issued a permit April 23 for Williams & Rowe Co. Inc. of Jacksonville to renovate 22,782 square feet of the 42,437-square-foot store for Aldi at 8775 Old Kings Road S. at a project cost of $810,000.
The remaining 19,655 square feet of space is listed as residual. It is unclear what is planned for that.
The site is at Old Kings and Baymeadows roads, a mile west of Interstate 95 and a quarter-mile west of Philips Highway.
Duval County Property Appraiser records show the store and shopping center were built in 1977.
APD Engineering & Architecture PLLC of Victor, New York, is the agent for the Old Kings Road permit.
TSG Realty of Jacksonville owns the shopping center through Brierwood Village LLC.
The city issued an interior demolition permit April 7 for Williams & Rowe to prepare the shell of the store for interior improvements. It issued approval March 24 for Shark Signs of NE FL Inc. to put up the ALDI name at a project cost of $10,000.
While the NAI Hallmark commercial real estate firm’s site brochure for Brierwood Village Plaza shows Aldi in the entire Winn-Dixie space, the no-frills chain typically uses about half that size.
It is one of several Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarkets targeted for conversion.
The first converted Aldi opened March 20 at 2261 Edgewood Ave. W. in Northwest Jacksonville in a former Harveys.
Aldi has taken steps to convert at least four more Winn-Dixies in Northeast Florida in the Fort Caroline and Girvin neighborhoods in Duval County; in Fleming Island in Clay County; and in Grand Cypress Marketplace in St. Johns County.
German grocer Aldi bought Jacksonville-based Southeastern Grocers Inc., with about 400 Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarkets in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi, as of March 7, 2024.
Less than a year later, a private investment group led by former Southeastern Grocers CEO and President Anthony Hucker announced Feb. 7, 2025, that it bought 170 of those stores as well as the Winn-Dixie liquor store business.
The February news release said Southeastern Grocers will continue to operate the remaining stores identified for conversion to Aldi until they are closed for the renovation.
Aldi stores are about half the size of the Southeastern Grocers supermarkets that are being converted, which means landlords will have more space available for lease.
Aldi has about 2,400 U.S. stores and said the Southeastern Grocers acquisition was part of a plan to add 800 stores nationwide by 2028 through new openings and store conversions.
As of April 23, Aldi had at least 14 stores open in Northeast Florida, comprising nine in Jacksonville and five in Clay, Nassau and St. Johns counties.