East River Retail?

Last week the City Council approved Sheldon Solow’s $4 billion plan to construct six new residential towers and an office tower on the old Con Ed site south of the United Nations. Also included in the plan is a lot of ground-floor retail spaces. The signs ringing the construction site pictured above boldly proclaim “Coming in 2008″ and feature images of some brightly-colored Whole-some Foods. We’re still waiting for the new locations at 220 3rd Street in Brooklyn, and Greenwich/Warren Streets and 97th Street in Manhattan, so we’ll have to see.