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Friday, November 16, 2007

Randolph and Lexington OR Where can a Starving Yuppie Find Nutrition

Today the Planning Commission is scheduled to approve a rezoning request to permit a retail development on the southwest corner of Randolph and Lexington to allow what a large retail development, the primary tenant of which has been described as an upscale grocery store called Trader Joe’s.

I don’t really know much about the store. I know that they recently opened a Trader Joe’s store in Woodbury which was accompanied by gratuitous [free?] news storied in the DPP.

I suppose the location would be fine for this kind of store. After Summit Hill, Mac-Groveland, and Highland Park can all come there easily, along with whatever sufferers of affluence live in West Seventh. It’s not even a bad shot for Merriam Park and the yuppie part of Summit-University.

But it looks like they will be putting an awful lot on a small place.

And when you have Kowalski’s, Whole Foods, and Lund’s, how much more can the market bear?

Is it impossible that you won’t soon have a big commercial site begging for a new user, possibly even seeking public assistance to make the conversion?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I’d go there at least once so I could see what all of the fuss is about, but I can sneak in on what you called the Kelly Crosstown. I'd guess that if it has any draw at all, things on Randolph might get pretty clogged at times.

My neighbor who used to live in Oregon says that they aren’t as expensive as Lund’s or Kowalski’s, but I thought the PiPress hype for the Woodbury place said otherwise.

I am glad that you raised the question about the likely need to fund a second use for the site. I hope that the city leaders are thinking about that too.