Trader Joe's drops one shoe, but what about Whole Foods?
The Lakewood Advocate's resident curmedgeon blogger, Jeff Siegel, is best remembered by his dozen or so loyal readers as saying that BD's 15 minutes of fame were so way up a few years back. Well, both of us are still blogging, but BD ain't the one wearing a tie.
That said, his comments on the recent Trader Joe's coming to Lowest Greenville announcement actually have a few points that merit attention. His information pretty much is confirmed by BD's sources, so we are taking the lazy way out and linking to his story
The parking issue is one BD has heard the most comments about. Considering that many of the area streets are already Resident Parking Only at night, we are only a hop-step-and-a-petition-drive away from asking for 24/7 RPO. But considering that Whole Foods parking on residential streets was only an issue on Thanksgiving weekend, that does not seem likely.
Here's hoping the other shoe will drop on the Whole Foods property (any shoe will do) and soon. Buh-bye Wal-Mart, hello god knows what Mitchell Get The Hell Out of My House Rasansky will bestow on Lowest Greenville.
Trader Joe's, Lower Greenville, and the new Dallas
Everyone I talked to yesterday — and I talked to a lot of people in the real estate and grocery businesses — had the same reaction to the news that Trader Joe's would open its first Dallas store on Lower Greenville. Shock. Surprise. Incredulity, even.
But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that reaction was our problem. We were surprised because we expected something else to happen because we're used to something else happening. Big-time, desirable national retailers don't open in our neighborhood. They open in the Park Cities or Preston Hollow or Far North Dallas. But not here. We have crime. We have people who don't look like TV commercials. We aren't demographically perfect.
