Compare Fresh Opens With 52 Jobs in National Housing & Safety Roundup

Across municipal development, housing, and public safety reports this weekend, operators José Luis and Lisset Ureña opened a 17,000-square-foot Compare Fresh supermarket creating 52 jobs at 159 Main St. in Hempstead (Hoodline), developers released renderings for a 7-story apartment building at 87 Havemeyer St. in Williamsburg (Hoodline), Davidson County commissioners approved an 18-acre industrial rezoning in North Carolina (Hoodline), a Douglasville homeowner detailed a $534,000 new-home repair dispute (Hoodline), and police and sheriff's departments shared infrastructure and incident updates in Fishers (Hoodline), Jefferson County (Hoodline), Pinellas County (KCBS Radio), and Bethany (Hoodline).

Compare Fresh Anchors 228-Unit Hempstead Complex as Williamsburg and Lexington Projects Advance

• Hempstead Grocery Opening (159 Main St.): Owned by José Luis and Lisset Ureña — their 3rd Compare Fresh on Long Island following Brentwood (opened in 2022) and Wyandanch — the 17,000-square-foot supermarket employs 52 full- and part-time workers and features fresh produce, a sushi bar, a juice bar, an in-house bakery, and meat and seafood counters. The store sits inside 22,600 square feet of ground-floor retail beneath 228 apartments at Carman Place, a project valued at $122 million by Long Island Business News and $155 million by Newsday that received more than $136 million in county, state, and federal incentives alongside $10 million in New York state revitalization aid for Hempstead Village (where Golden Farms Supermarket also opened at 210 Henry St. on March 20).
• Williamsburg 87 Havemeyer St. Renderings: On the former Chelsea Garden Center nursery lot in Brooklyn, developer Crystal House at East Harlem LLC and architect Michael Krariem unveiled renderings for a 7-story, 75-foot light-tan brick residential building with a rooftop terrace, fitness center, coworking lounge, and bike storage. New York YIMBY reported 35 units (near nearby pipeline projects including the 12-story, 99-unit 159 Broadway, the 5-story, 4-unit 222 North 8th St., and the 2-skyscraper, 1,262-unit 280 Kent Ave.), while an earlier February permit filed by G&S Installations 111 and Kao Hwa Lee Architects PC listed 45 units across 29,607 square feet of residential space and 1,090 square feet of commercial space.
• Davidson County 18-Acre Rezoning & Douglasville $534K Dispute: In Lexington Township, North Carolina, the Davidson County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Monday (following Planning Board and Planning Director Lee Crook's recommendation) to rezone nearly 18 acres along East Park Avenue (SR 2001, a 0.52-mile segment near Robert Everhart Road, SR 2002) from RA-3 rural agricultural to CZ-LI conditional limited industrial for William L. Hedrick's construction and heavy-equipment business, requiring a permanent 20-foot eastern vegetative buffer and operating hours of 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday–Friday and 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. In Douglasville, Georgia, homeowner Yalanda Williams told WSB-TV that her new-construction home built by Meritage Homes suffers from foundation cracks and split studs requiring an estimated $534,000 in repairs as her claim proceeds in arbitration alongside Georgia's Right to Repair Act (O.C.G.A. §§ 8-2-35 through 8-2-43).

Trail Cameras in Fishers and Local Law Enforcement Briefs

• Fishers Nickel Plate Trail Tunnel: In Fishers, Indiana, police and parks officials highlighted lighting and dual-end security cameras inside the south tunnel beneath 116th Street along the 5-mile Nickel Plate Trail running from 96th Street to 146th Street (where police also noted an unrelated Jan. 17, 7:15 p.m. crossing collision near Lantern Road and Technology Drive).
• Colorado, Florida, and Oklahoma Law Enforcement Reports: In Colorado, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office asked tipsters (at 303-271-5612 or jcsocrimetips@jeffco.us under case numbers 26-19825 and 26-19741) to help identify a suspect wearing a green Grateful Dead bear hoodie, a Halloween onesie on his head, and Hermes Izmir-style slides linked to damage at a U.S. Bank on Shaffer Parkway on Oct. 19 at 9:37 p.m. and a Wells Fargo on West Belleview Avenue on Oct. 20 at 10:16 p.m. In Clearwater, Florida — in a U.S. market where 3 billion pizzas are sold annually — Pinellas County Sheriff's deputies completed a customer's Rizzoli's pizza delivery after the delivery driver was involved in a traffic crash. And in Bethany, Oklahoma, police released body-camera details from a traffic stop near North Council Road and Northwest 23rd involving 19-year-old driver Vanessa Delgado, who was stopped for a broken headlight and subsequently charged with driving under the influence, assaulting an officer, eluding, and failure to carry insurance.