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title: "Whole Foods Signs 10K-SF Lease for Bodega-Like Grocery Store in Bushwick"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/fcc8c29d-e8a1-44df-815b-9d398597e4de
source: "Commercial Observer"
original_url: https://commercialobserver.com/2026/06/whole-foods-lease-1224-flushing-avenue-bushwick/
author: "Mark Hallum"
category: "Signs"
industry: "Business Services"
segment: "Signs"
published: 2026-06-08T19:34:47.000Z
modified: 2026-10-31T13:18:48.152Z
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# Whole Foods Signs 10K-SF Lease for Bodega-Like Grocery Store in Bushwick

**TL;DR:** Whole Foods, owned by Amazon, has signed a 10,000-square-foot lease in Bushwick, Brooklyn, for its small-format market concept. The grocery chain has also signed a 35,000-square-foot lease in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn as part of its expansion of the small-format store concept.

*By Mark Hallum, originally published in Commercial Observer on 2026-06-08. [Read the original](https://commercialobserver.com/2026/06/whole-foods-lease-1224-flushing-avenue-bushwick/).*

## Story

**Whole Foods** has selected Brooklyn’s bustling Bushwick neighborhood as the next location for its bodega-like market concept.

The grocery chain owned by **Amazon** signed a 15-year, 10,000-square-foot lease at **1224 Flushing Avenue**, a property owned by **David Moore** that is near the Jefferson Avenue L train stop, according to a memorandum of lease filing made public last week.

The deal followed the news earlier last week that the retailer had also signed a 35,000-square-foot lease at **182 Smith Street** in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn. Both leases are for the store’s new small-format store concept, which began in Chelsea in 2019.

Asking rent for the newest space was $130 per square foot, according to a source with knowledge of the deal.

The new store announcements also come after a bit of a switch-up in retail footprint strategies for Amazon.

In January, Amazon announced it would close all of its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh stores in favor of focusing on an expansion of the small-format Whole Foods brand, specifically with the **Whole Foods Market Daily Shop** concept, which focuses on online orders similar to **Trader Joe’s Pronto**.

**Manu Wendum** and **Marisa Simkin** of **Retail by MONA** were marketing the building for lease, but did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Amazon and Moore also did not immediately respond to requests for comment. *Crain’s New York Business* first reported the new Whole Foods leases.

The bodega-like concept is also one that has been on a slow rise since Amazon opened its first one at **250 Seventh Avenue** in Chelsea in 2019. More recently, Whole Foods signed a deal for a 7,888-square-foot mini store at **774 Grand Street** in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

## Entities

- Retail (sector)
- Amazon (company)
- Commercial Observer (publication)
- store expansion (topic)
- Whole Foods (company)
- lease agreement (topic)
- Mark Hallum (person)
- Trader Joe's (company)
- retail footprint (topic)
- grocery market (topic)
- David Moore (person)
- Retail by MONA (company)

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Originally reported by Mark Hallum, Commercial Observer (https://commercialobserver.com/2026/06/whole-foods-lease-1224-flushing-avenue-bushwick/). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/fcc8c29d-e8a1-44df-815b-9d398597e4de).