Gowanus Whole Foods Finally Happening

The Times brings us the above picture of a once industrial wasteland that will finally become home to a proposed Whole Foods.

Whole Foods bought the 4.2 acres in 2004.  After eight years of community board meetings, reworked plans, and naysaying, The Board of Standards and Appeals finally granted Whole Foods permission to open at 3rd Street and 3rd Avenue in Brooklyn.

The Whole Foods will be 56,000 square feet (that's bigger than Eataly!), and reps say shovels will be digging "as soon as possible," according to Brownstoner.