As the city reviews permits for conversion of the closed Winn-Dixie in Brierwood Village Plaza into an Aldi discount grocery store, it issued approval March 24 for the sign.
Shark Signs of NE FL Inc. is the contractor for the $10,000 project to put up the ALDI name at 8775 Old Kings Road S.
Williams & Rowe Co. Inc. is the contractor waiting for a permit to demolish the interior and some exterior spaces to prepare it for renovation for an Aldi market at an estimated cost of $9,300.
The city also has been reviewing an application submitted in December 2024 for the estimated $810,000 build-out conversion.
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.
Aldi stores are smaller than Winn-Dixie and sister brand Harveys supermarkets.
APD Engineering & Architecture PLLC of Victor, New York, is the agent for the Old Kings Road permit.
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.
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 Brierwood, Fort Caroline, Girvin and in Fleming Island in Clay 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.
The company 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 had at least 14 stores in Northeast Florida, comprising nine in Jacksonville and five in Clay, Nassau and St. Johns counties.