Warwick will be getting a brand new supermarket that may make competitors “green” with envy thanks to a pair of rainmakers from Mountainville.
Adrian and Donna Goddard, principals of Goddard Development Partners, have worked for more than a decade to bring a second grocery store to the Warwick area. In a month they will break ground on a 56,000-square-foot Price Chopper on Route 94, just down the road from Warwick”™s only current supermarket, Shoprite.
The Goddards have developed anchor properties with Price Chopper in the past and have a penchant for supermarket projects.
To arrive at this juncture, they have worked with Price Chopper and Tom Petrucci, who owns the land on which the development will be built.
Price Chopper will own the supermarket with the Goddards serving as landlords.
The Goddards are landlords for the Vails Gate Price Chopper and the two Price Choppers in Wallkill and Saugerties.
“In addition to the store, the site plans approve a pad site suitable for a bank and additional build-out space for Country Chevrolet,” Donna Goddard said. “For the time being, most of the property will remain undeveloped. The new Price Chopper will be heavily landscaped.”
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The supermarket is the first in the region to take advantage of the new LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) technology designed to save money, keep the planet cleaner and give a second useful life to items that once filled landfills. (The first LEED-certified supermarket in the nation was a Giant Eagle in Ohio.)
The LEED-inspired design includes the use of CO2 for refrigeration and natural light that is augmented with energy-efficient lights only when needed. While Adrian Goddard said geo-thermal heating and cooling is under consideration, he”™s not sure if the site is suited for the application.
“Price Chopper is aiming for Platinum LEED certification,” said Adrian Goddard. “I think it”™s very progressive and enlightened of them. It”™s definitely going to reduce their costs and add to curb appeal. Price Chopper is an investor in the process; and the chain, like our company, saw a desperate need for a second supermarket in the Warwick area.”
It”™s been a long and winding road for the Goddards and their partners to get the approvals for the Warwick supermarket. While the developers did not disclose the costs involved in the project, “They were considerable … after all, this has been on the table for 10 years,” they said. “We are more than pleased that the mission has finally been accomplished.”
Adrian Goddard said the goal is to have the new store open a year to 14 months after the shovel hits the ground.
Frank Petrucci, owner of Country Chevrolet and whose family owns the acreage where the new store will be built, will hold on to his approval to move his dealership from its current Main Street location to the new site. “I”™m happy we”™ve finally gotten our approvals,” he said. “But I”™m not going to consider leaving our family”™s original location here in the village until the supermarket is completed.”
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Adrian Goddard likes the proximity to Shoprite, saying, “I know competition is a good thing for both shoppers and for business. It gives shoppers a choice and keeps business on their toes to keep up appearances and bring the best they can to their customers.”
Goddard Development Partners is also involved with a 60,000- square-foot expansion of the current Lowes/Barnes & Noble project in Newburgh. The company is an investor in The Marketplace in the town of Newburgh, which has just received conditional final site plan approval for its 775,000-square-foot, open-air shopping center. That project ”“ being developed by Bob Wilder and Wilder-Balter Partners ”“ is on a 120-acre parcel at the intersection of I-84/I-87, as reported Aug.6 by Hudson Valley Business.
Developers and builders for more than a decade, English-born Adrian Goddard and New Windsor-born wife Donna have definitely become part of the Hudson Valley landscape. “My mother doesn”™t recognize my accent when I call her,” laughed Adrian. “I must be becoming acclimated!”
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