A fifth confirmed Aldi conversion is in review in Northeast Florida, with the latest identified site at Girvin Plaza where Winn-Dixie has operated since at least 1990.
The city is reviewing a permit for discount grocer Aldi to renovate the Winn-Dixie at 12777 Atlantic Blvd. at an estimated project cost of $810,000. No contractor is identified.
APD Engineering & Architecture PLLC of Victor, New York, is the architect.
The total site improvement cost is shown as $1.057 million.
Aldi will renovate 21,976 square feet of space at the store, at northeast Atlantic Boulevard and Girvin Road.
The store is 47,060 square feet. It remained open for business as of March 10.
A site plan shows slightly different numbers – Aldi taking 21,982 square feet of a 48,665-square-foot building, leaving 26,683 square feet for a future tenant.
Duval County property records show that Aldi owns part of the grocery building through Southeastern Grocers Holdings LLC.
Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. bought property in 1998 for what appears to be an 11,280-square-foot addition built in 1999. Winn-Dixie is a brand of Jacksonville-based Southeastern Grocers, which Aldi bought last year.
Records show 1954 Unionport Associates LLC of New York City, in care of Eckstein Properties, owns the rest of the supermarket, at 35,780 square feet built in 1990. That LLC bought the structure in 2004.
The space targeted for renovation includes the part of the store owned by Aldi. The remaining space is listed as available for a future tenant.
Aldi Inc.’s Haines City Division is listed as the owner’s representative.
The no-frills Aldi stores are smaller than Winn-Dixie and sister brand Harveys Supermarkets.
Four other Aldi conversions identified so far comprise:
• The 9 a.m. March 20 opening of Aldi at the converted Harveys Supermarket in Edgewood Square in Northwest Jacksonville at a project cost of $810,000. T.D. Farrell Construction Inc. of Alpharetta, Georgia, was the contractor for the 21,839-square-foot project at 2261 Edgewood Ave. W. Harveys operated in a 46,189-square-foot space.
• The city issued a permit March 4 for T.D. Farrell Construction to renovate an Arlington store at 6060 Fort Caroline Road, Unit 10, at a project cost of $1.451 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.
• Work could start soon on converting the closed Winn-Dixie in Brierwood Village Plaza. The city is reviewing a permit for Williams & Rowe Co. Inc. to demolish the interior and some exterior spaces at the store at 8775 Old Kings Road S. to prepare it for renovation. While the site brochure for Brierwood Village Plaza shows Aldi in the entire 42,240-square-foot space, the no-frills chain typically uses about half that size. No space dimensions are indicated in the permits in review.
• 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.
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 intends to complete its previously stated conversion plans with a total of about 220 Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarket stores, which is expected to conclude in 2027.
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 March 20, Aldi will have at least 14 stores in Northeast Florida, comprising nine in Jacksonville and five in Clay, Nassau and St. Johns counties.