Signs for a new grocery store at 597 Grand Street have covered the windows.

Lidl is an international, German-based discount grocery. The chain has a fan-following similar to Aldi, another German discount grocer, with the first US Lidl stores opening in 2017.

Brooklyn and Queens have a few existing Lidl locations, but the Grand Street location will be the closest to Manhattan, which has none.

The success of the brand has been around constantly curating the product selection and removing SKUs that didn’t sell and keeping stores small.

The Grand Street location is a new retail space in the ground floor of 597 Grand Street.. The apartments are filling and the Brooklyn Eye center opened earlier this year.

The lot had originally been a Key Foods with a surface parking lot. Various redevelopment plans had included a grocery store component, with most promising a return of Key Foods.

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