Walking south on Seventh Avenue last night I noticed that the old Zuzu’s Petals and Olive Vine storefronts, between Berkeley Place and Union Streets, are boarded up. In 2004, fire swept through that one-story building and it’s been vacant and untouched since then. The wooden rainbow  Zuzu’s Petals sign was visible until a few days ago. Olive Vine moved a few blocks away on Seventh Avenue and Zuzu’s moved to much bigger digs on Fifth Avenue..

So is something finally happening over there?

There’s a rumor that Petco is moving in, but the owner, David Chemtob, has not officially disclosed who or what is going in there.

According to the Brooklyn Paper, Chemtob bought the vacant storefronts in 2008 and was going to build to build residential housing and storefronts. He had a commercial tenant, I remember hearing that it was a health club or something like that, but then that fell through. Then the recession hit Chemtob’s big plans bit the dust.