Whole Foods may be looking on Broad Street
Richmond BizSense reports that Whole Foods is looking at the former Stephen Putney Shoe Company/Virginia Department of Taxation building:
Parr said a representative from Whole Foods has toured the site. Whole Foods, which did not return several calls and emails seeking comment, has one store in Richmond at Short Pump. [...]
If Whole Foods were to put a store on the Sauer property, the store would reach both the Fan and the affluent Near West End neighborhoods. The two neighborhoods combined have almost 45,000 residents with a median household income of more than $50,000, according to City-Data.com.
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Can somebody tell this company that Richmond does not end at the river and that there is West End like money on southside please….
@fanofthefan noooo!! @Wegmans instead please. No more overly expensive grocery stores in #rva
And….there is also money to be spent from folks here in Bellevue/Northside which makes this location exciting to a lot of surrounding neighborhoods in Richmond.
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southside sucks. the only redeeming part is about ten blocks of art scene in manchester. then ghetto, then soul-sucking suburbs and rednecks.
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Prefer Trader Joe’s over Whole Foods. Not such crazy prices and good selection.
[...] recently the home of Virginia Department of Taxation This from Fan of the Fan: Richmond BizSense reports that Whole Foods is looking at the former Stephen Putney Shoe [...]
With the possibility of Whole Foods and the Fresh Market opening up in Cary Town, you can say goodbye to Elwood Thompson.
How come “big box” stores are bad for Carytown but people can’t wait to have them on Broad St?
And a little history on this location:
http://vintagerva.blogspot.com/2012/08/battle-axe-shoe-company-1909-whole.html
Lou, because Broad Street needs them–Carytown doesn’t… in some people’s minds
They need to look further east! Churchill/Shockoe/ Manchester NEED grocery stores!
I hope that Whole Foods does enter the city but I would prefer that the location be further east. The west end, museum district and Fan are well served with groceries. Also, the residents nearly all have cars and would likely not mind a driving a bit further east to get specialty groceries from whole food should they need them. Downtown, monroe ward, jackson ward, church hill, shockoe bottom, highland park, etc. have little in the way of grocery stores and need another badly. The presence of a whole food anywhere, but particularly further east would catalyze urban growth.
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archrva, you think whole foods is what highland park needs? Its funny you don’t seem to have anything on your opinionated website on highland park, or other well built neighborhoods desperately in need of a decent grocery store.
If whole foods moved down into these neighborhoods that you mention it would not do the people of these neighborhoods any good, just the property owners. Since you are so concerned about these people you should be happy to know that this location will be still be convenient to the folk of deep church hill and highland park, thanks to modes of transportation that you do not rely on, to provide them with good middle class jobs.
So, please be happy for them.
Keep your dumb provocative comments for style.