Lotte Plaza Market, a world grocery store that focuses on Asian groceries, mentioned it can open its Jacksonville retailer Sept. 12. – Lotte Plaza Market, a world grocery store that focuses on Asian groceries, mentioned it can open its Jacksonville retailer Sept. 12, according to the Jacksonville Daily Record.
The market is being built-out within the former Finest Purchase at 9355 Atlantic Blvd., not removed from Regency Sq. Mall in Arlington.
The posted hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day. The shop is open three hundred and sixty five days a 12 months.
The town issued a allow Feb. 4, 2025, for Common Signal Service Corp. of Jacksonville to place up the grocery store’s signal. That follows a allow issued Nov. 15, 2024, for Lotte Plaza Market to renovate the shop at a value of $8.99 million.
President Alvin Lee mentioned by electronic mail July 15, 2024, that his group was scheduled to start out building in 2024 for a fall or winter opening however adjustments within the metropolis allowing system resulted in a delay.
“We consider we’re close to the end line and the contractors are able to go as soon as the permits are issued,” he mentioned in July.
Hawkins Development Co. of Tarpon Springs is the contractor renovating the 45,799-square-foot retailer.
Plans present inside and exterior renovations.
Inside, plans present grocery, meat, seafood and produce areas and at the very least seven meals vendor stations and a meals court docket space.
There is also area for a bakery.
Lotte Plaza Market shops supply meats, seafood, produce and specialty merchandise, together with packaged teas, sauces and contemporary fruit and veggies. Additionally they have meals courts and bakeries.
The shops carry Korean, Japanese, Chinese language, Vietnamese, Philippine, Thai and Indian merchandise, amongst different meals.
The Maryland-based firm has 16 shops comprising seven in Virginia, six in Maryland, two in Florida and one in New Jersey.
It opened in Orlando in 2019 and in Tampa in November 2023.
Lotteplaza.com says the corporate was based in 1976 and opened in Maryland in 1989.
The corporate has a purpose of opening 50 Lotte Plaza Market places by 2030.
On the Richmond, Virginia, retailer opening in Might 2024, Lee mentioned the following opening can be in Jacksonville after which Miami.
The Richmond retailer has a French-Asian bakery and an Asian meals court docket with Korean, Japanese and different kiosks.
Lee mentioned by electronic mail July 15 that Lotte Plaza Market selected Jacksonville for its inhabitants and its distinction from the remainder of the state.
“A big, various inhabitants and a dynamic, rising atmosphere are a few of the issues that attracted us to Jacksonville,” he mentioned.
“Totally different in some ways from central Florida and south Florida, we consider Jacksonville has a singular vibe and cultural heritage completely different from the remainder of Florida. I feel the Metropolis will proceed to take pleasure in regular development into the longer term and we need to be part of that,” he mentioned.
Lee mentioned the inside will appear like the corporate’s new platform shops in Tampa and Richmond.
Finest Purchase constructed the patron electronics retailer in 1999 and closed it in March 2021.
SW Jacksonville LLC, led by Maryland-based Sungwon Distributor LLC agent Sang Lee, purchased the three.4-acre website in January 2022.
Sungwon Distributor LLC relies in Jessup, Maryland. Sung Lee is the CEO.
Sang Lee registered with the state to do enterprise in Florida.
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