Walker
The KLD / Downtown / Gay Street
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buckette13 said:
Neil Ave is an awesome location to walk to with all the dense housing nearby and people hanging out in Goodale Park. It is a great location for a small independent, maybe the best location in the city. Unfortunately for me it is not within walking distance. If I am getting into a car, I want to do it as few times as possible.
Oh, I know. Just teasing. ;)
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ricospaz said:
Nope, Trader Joes in the old GE on 5th! Well I can dream anyway.
I would love to see a block of mixed use apartments put there like the ones that Matt the Miller's is in now. I think Rifes and the nearby Chamber's Rd Kroger and the new 3rd Ave GE are enough. There sure will be a lot of grocery options in central Columbus. It is surprising how many seem to be popping up.
alexs
Limestone bluffs of the Scioto
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leftovers said:
I wonder if there are maybe too many groceries opening and expanding. I have heard the Grandview Kroger is expanding also and Target will be adding more groceries.
Back in the day when Cub Foods brought the warehouse-store approach to town, some people predicted they'd run the other grocers out of business. Another ghost of Columbus Past.
Walker
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leftovers said:
I wonder if there are maybe too many groceries opening and expanding. I have heard the Grandview Kroger is expanding also and Target will be adding more groceries.
The population in/around Downtown is also rising. A lot new apartment buildings are coming online along the "Olentangy corridor" in the next few months.
JaredThompson
Where the View is Grand
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Here's a facebook page supporting Trader Joe's at Fifth and Grandview to click and like: https://www.facebook.com/TraderJoesGrandviewOHIO
cbus11
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JaredThompson said:
Here's a facebook page supporting Trader Joe's at Fifth and Grandview to click and like: https://www.facebook.com/TraderJoesGrandviewOHIO
I think Neil Ave is the better location for a Trader Joe's.
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Walker said:
The population in/around Downtown is also rising. A lot new apartment buildings are coming online along the "Olentangy corridor" in the next few months.
There is also talk of a Walmart SuperCenter at the Timken site (Cleveland and 5th). I agree with Walker that there is a steadily rising population, but I imagine competition for the grocery $ will be fairly fierce. The grocery options are increasing dramatically both in quantity and in quality.
Walker
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ehill27 said:
All this grocery expansion, yet we can't seem to get other retailers to consider Grandview Yard or the greater downtown. I just can't figure it out, and I grumble about it every time I'm forced to drive out to the burbs to shop.
Grocery is a lot different than other types of large non-food retail. People have to eat every day. They don't need a new TV from Best Buy every day, so those larger chains don't see as strong of a need to set up in a Downtown area if the population isn't large enough to support it.
Sooner or later, I do think we'll see some announcements at Grandview Yard.
GCrites80s
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ehill27 said:
All this grocery expansion, yet we can't seem to get other retailers to consider Grandview Yard or the greater downtown. I just can't figure it out, and I grumble about it every time I'm forced to drive out to the burbs to shop.
Urban and suburban spending patterns are quite different. Urbanites, for one, spend a large portion of their incomes on eating out and going out. They're not, one average, nearly as stuff oriented as those residing further out. Children make people spend tons of money, and not as many people are raising their kids in town yet. But like Walker says, everybody's gotta eat.
ehill27
Short North
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Walker said:
...so those larger chains don't see as strong of a need to set up in a Downtown area if the population isn't large enough to support it.
The greater downtown population must be just as high, if not higher, than any other part of the metro. Centralized retail should be able to pull from Short North/VV/IV, German Village, Grandview, FTon, Old Towne, King/Lincoln, even campus, Clintonville and beyond.
I'm undoubtedly a retail laymen, but this whole thing is baffling to me.
ehill27
Short North
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"The Grandview Yard grocery store, which serves as the retail anchor of Nationwide Realty Investor Ltd.’s redevelopment effort, will replace a Giant Eagle at 1451 W. Fifth Ave. at Grandview Avenue."
SOURCE: http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2012/12/03/giant-eagle-at-grandview-yard-getting.html
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