Dive summary:

• One never knows what will spread from New York City and what is merely unique to the Big Apple, but there is an effort among some developers of urban apartment projects to bring food stores into their buildings that have local flavors – literally or figuratively – of summer outdoor markets that have gone on for years.
• Like the owner of a new residential project at 11th Avenue and 44th Street in the part of Manhattan long known as Hell's Kitchen, developers think younger urban renters want something that is not conventional food shopping, yet their ground-floor spaces are too small to accommodate the likes of trendy stores such as Trader Joe's or Whole Foods.
• Whether the approach works in New York or is transferrable to other urban developments around the U.S. is still an open question.

From the article:

At the City Point development in downtown Brooklyn, the developers plan to build a 12,000-square-foot market at the base of a new retail and residential development, which is on the former site of Dekalb Market ...