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Get your glass-bottled milk in this glass-walled Williamsburg Whole Foods

Get your glass-bottled milk in this glass-walled Williamsburg Whole Foods
Meridian Capital Group

They are going to need a lot of scent-free, plant-based glass cleaner.

The deep-pocketed developer who is bringing a Whole Foods to Williamsburg has unveiled a rendering of the project and the high-end grocery store that will anchor a retail mall appears in the computer image as one big glass box. Not pictured are the underground floors that will house the bulk of the Texas-based health giant’s organic and otherwise pricey items or the upper-floor apartments that developers have said will rise above the two-story, block-wide mall.

The Whole Foods will sit on the Bedford Avenue and N. Fourth Street of the complex and may share the first-floor with the gym chain New York Sports Club.

Three developers paid $23-million for the formerly vacant lot between Bedford and Berry avenues in March of 2012.

The Williamsburg store will have two Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of floor space, making it smaller than the granola vendor’s New York flagship in Manhattan’s Union Square and meaning that it will be dwarfed by the Gowanus Whole Foods when that store opens after eight years of delays and complaints from neighbors about its scale and traffic impacts. The Gowanus location is set to paper-bag its first groceries in December and the Williamsburg outlet is supposed to follow suit in late 2014.

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