Veteran grocery store owner Rob Rowe bought the closed Winn-Dixie in Baymeadows and is assessing what to do with it – open another Rowe’s IGA supermarket or keep the property for another use.
Buying it – for $3.7 million – was the first step.
“I had to get that done first,” he said. “I have to decide if it’s the best use for a store or for something else.”
One certainty, he said, is that he does not plan to sell it.
“It’s a great piece of real estate for an investment property, so I bought it for that reason. I may develop it, I may open it. I am just not sure and I have not had any real time to figure it all out,” he said…