JERSEY CITY — Whole Foods is eyeing a new location for a Jersey City store after dropping plans to open one near the Grove Street PATH station, sources told The Jersey Journal.

The upscale grocery chain is close to finalizing a deal to open in one of Mack-Cali's Harborside buildings, near the Hudson River waterfront, the sources said.

The city in 2016 announced a location across Marin Boulevard from City Hall, but those plans have been scrapped, the sources said.

A Whole Foods spokeswoman would say only that the company is "as committed as ever to bringing the highest-quality natural and organic foods to Jersey City."

A 365 by Whole Foods Market — described by Whole Foods as "a smaller-store concept where value meets quality" — is scheduled to open in Weehawken in the fall.

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