Thank you for an actual answer! I'm on the subreddit everyday had not seen anything on Whole Foods progress in a while. Not sure why I got so much snark from everyone else.

If anyone is familiar with how long it took to open the Whole Foods in Weehawken they wouldn’t be suprised by how long this is taking.

I think Key Foods was a C Town when I moved here in 1995.

Can you camp out and give us photo updates every half hour on the half hour until it opens?

Whole Foods produce is some of the best I’ve found, and they carry good pantry staples like Bianco di Napoli tomatoes.

Aside from that stuff, I go to ShopRite

Looks like another 8 months to go. 🙄

Hurry up, my water isn't going to asparagus itself.

Baddie Tattoos, Blue Bird Tattoos (Irvin) and Hoboken Tattoo (Nobu) are my go to choices always.

This is true. I was searching for so long (had the luxury of living with someone) so I was able to tske time. Looked at an apartment that had the tenant still in it. So much I did not see! I felt very uncomfortable being there while someone else's stuff was there so I just breezed thru. Lots I overlooked. Like there only being 1 window and it's in the bedroom. One radiator also in the bedroom. It's not worth it to look at an occupied apartment. I'll never do that again.

My husband is a wood finisher.

Are your sure they need to be replaced? You can save a ton by having them refinished/treated.

Financially this whole project makes zero sense to me. Why is Amazon just continually paying for this space

If those establishments skim credit cards, hell yeah! That's sketch as fuuuuuuck!

I was in Costa Rica once and the chef at the place we were staying was super excited to show us his cheesecake as we were from the NY area. He was building it up and building it up...

When it came out it was made from queso and ... not good. He had very obviously never actually tasted a cheesecake before making his version.

Costa Rican cheesecake is now our go to reference for when we get inexplicably bad food of some kind.

For one. They’re going to give time to let disturbed earth settle. More machinery you use to do it mechanically, more stress you’re going to put on existing adjacent structures.

Same reason road projects seem to “stall”. Letting nature do the work is sometimes preferable.

I’m sure someone did the math on cost/risks.

Ah I see. I’m sure a lot has changed since then!

Wouldn't surprise me the delay is redesigning JC as a cashierless store. Whole Foods version of Amazon Go.

Hole Food….

It fell off a truck

They had to install underground plumbing for floor drains and ground floor toilets.

I hope they’re open tomorrow

There was a laundromat on 1st and Brunswick when I first moved to DTJC. Nicest shopkeeps!

But even if it is a complicated project and they knew that, why exactly does it appear the work is going so slowly? Is the holdup with engineering problems, labor, permits, inspections, other red tape, etc.? This was supposedly going to open in 2021 and then mid-2022. Jersey City UpFront coverage 2020 blog post

Yea. Outside of a handful of special situations. Most tax preparers just punch your data into an app and print out the results. Often hiring someone for low wages to do the data entry.

Not much different than doing it yourself with any software of your choice.

These days all the major offerings support 95% of tax situations by the time you get to the top tier of their product.

So for most people, using a human is just a waste of money. For certain high income people who need to discuss tax strategies it can be worth it.

Big Chef would treat you like royalty if you dined in.

Is barely any urban amenities than random corner stores and like 2 restaurants not a good enough reason?