Retail round-up

Whole Foods Market will open its third store in Westchester County in 2013. The grocer has signed a lease in Port Chester with landlord AVR Realty Co. at the Kohl”™s Shopping Center on Boston Post Road.

Whole Foods will occupy a 45,000-square-foot building vacated last year by A&P Supermarket.

Martin A. Deitch, a partner at the Hartsdale retail brokerage Aries, Deitch & Endelson Inc., said Whole Foods looked at the site of the former D”™Agostino”™s grocery in Rye Ridge, a 28,000-square-foot space. “They were choosing between the more upscale Rye Ridge Shopping Center and the place where they ended up. Their choice was a surprise to a lot of people, but it makes it easier for the Greenwich shopper to come down Putnam Avenue” to Port Chester, said Deitch, whose company was not involved in the deal. Greenwich has a smaller, 15,000-square-foot Whole Foods store.

Whole Foods opened in White Plains in 2004 and in Westchester”™s Ridge Hill in Yonkers in October. It announced the Port Chester opening in its quarterly earnings report.

Ridge Hill adds retailers

Westchester”™s Ridge Hill in Yonkers will add five more retail stores this spring, at about the same time as Lord & Taylor”™s scheduled mid-April opening there. They are: The Limited, White House Black Market, Victoria”™s Secret, Bath & Body Works and Vera Bradley.

The Vera Bradley store will be the first in Westchester County. It specializes in handbags, travel items, stationary, home accessories and eyewear.

The new stores will occupy 21,000 square feet of space in the 1.3 million-square-foot shopping, entertainment and office center developed by Forest City Ratner Cos. in Brooklyn.

A previously announced restaurant tenant, Texas De Brazil, opened last month at Ridge Hill.  Brio Tuscan Grille is scheduled to open on March 8.