The Pacific Station Whole Foods, which debuted five-and-a-half years ago to large crowds and a downtown eager for a standalone market, will shut down, the Texas-based chain announced Wednesday.
The 23,000-square-foot market, which was the centerpiece of the mixed-used development, will close its doors for good Feb. 22.
Saturday, February 9, 2019
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Watch the City will promote/approve another bar.
ReplyDeleteThis City Council and Manager suck.
Turn it into low income housing.........then turn the 10 million dollar school they bought for finger painting classes into low income housing. Problem solved.......
ReplyDeleteOn a realistic note.....that parking for the Whole Foods had to be the dumbest situation I had encountered in a while. Moronic fools.
Its better than no parking. Watch another bar is coming. Thanks for nothing Blakespear and Kranz.
ReplyDeleteThe Community Market lasted a lot longer than Whole Foods.
ReplyDeleteAh yes, the moronic fool speaks.
ReplyDeleteJust where should the parking come from to support the businesses and patrons for this ugly idea of a failed concept of mixed use.
In your thinking, out on the street, of course, like there is so much to go around for public parking.
The limited capacity of this type of mindlessness, is exhausting to have to put up with.
The former Whole Foods space could be put to good humanitarian use, especially since no business in their right mind wants to go in there, other than another liquor serving, high tax generating business profile model.
Anybody want to take a bet what will end up going in there?
Anybody that lives in Pacific Station needs to be deaf. Another bar will make little difference to the quality of life in Pacific Station.
Little wonder Phil Graham was out drinking at 2am on a very early Monday morning trying to drown out the noise.
Sounds like you would have preferred Pacific View to become another market rate community impacting opportunity. Is that you, David Meyer.
I would like to think even Keith does not think this way. But Meyer, More than likely.
John Gjata's plans for housing of that site are well known. Now he is part of the effort to make it it all it can be, and good for him.
Keith Harrison wants a "boutique hotel" to go three stories plus, and bad.
DeleteHe's right in there with the rest of 'em.
Maybe the bums can have an indoor shelter, the mayor seems to like the bums. But oddly the bums don't live in her backyard, I wonder why?
ReplyDeleteOr maybe illegal aliens that some of the Encinitas whackos like so much. Move the illegals that stand on the corner of Manchester and Encinitas Blvd to Pacific Station. Yesterday I drove by there and counted 26. The do gooders could get them out of the canyons into posh surroudings...downtown.
Watch out for do gooders.....they'll do you good
Sculpin could host them - two years ago he said this was the hottest commercial real estate in the city! He probably drives an Edsel.
DeleteOn a temporary basis with certain mandated requirements, use the former Whole Foods space.
ReplyDeleteIf a buyer becomes interested, a 30 day or less time to move out for the coming remodel should enough time for the next business to come in.
The following requirements would need to observed by anyone looking for shelter:
1. Rent a metal detector.
2. Have a breath analyzer at the entrance to be used every time one comes inside.
3. Have all of those who choose to abide and benefit from the gift of shelter, clean up their own house and keep it clean on a daily basis with varying teams who choose to form together on their own. Friends working with their friends, works. They are all in on this together.
4. Absolutely no gathering outside the doors or on the adjacent sidewalk areas. This is specifically for the benefit of the residents of Pacific Station and the bars close by.
5. No smoking. No drugs. No alcohol. Aggression would need to rewarded with an escort out the door and away from the immediate premisses. This should be clear from the start to everyone who chooses shelter.
6. Have access and egress hours limited to daytime, or close to it. Miss the timing, and spend another night out in the cold. Post these hours at the door. No question.
7. Maybe even have the sheriffs cruise by once in a while to make sure no one is hanging out, within, say, 50 feet of the door. By law, I think smokers are supposed to stay 50 feet away from the bars doors. I know this is not enforced, but this shelter
could be special if the right rules are clear to anyone seeking shelter.
Abide by the rules, you get shelter. Don't, and that decision is theirs to make.
If some of these requirements, and more, are made crystal clear from the start, the homeless can decide for themselves if shelter is worth it to them.
I leave it others to add to this list.
This could be a good thing, and a temporary gift to those less fortunate among us.
There but for fortune, is more than a few meaningless words strung together.
If enough suggest such that would be a clearly temporary use, a lot of good will can be generated.
Play by these rules, you get shelter. The choice is on them, if they want to get through the door.
Yea, that's gonna happen - in an alternate Universe!
DeleteHey, Anonymous February 10, 2019 at 6:04 PM,
DeleteWhat a neo-hippie socialist freak you are!!!
@6:04 put the crack pipe down buddy
ReplyDeleteThe "mixed use" concept of commercial on the bottom and residential on the top doesn't work well. At the lofts, they residents complained about the ice cream shop's hours of operation and the noise. The Pacific Station has had similar issues. The site of the former Whole Foods is difficult to access due to the restricted parking. That location will not be rented out in its present configuration; it will have to be sub=parceled into smaller units. Even then, it will still be hampered by the lack of parking.
ReplyDelete7:35- Its not lack of parking. Its lack of good access for Pedestrians and creating a nice space that is lacking with PS. The design sucks. The cost for that space will be much lower as a result, or it will stay vacant.
ReplyDeleteIt shows the issues with bad design verses good design in architecture.
Pedestrians need to park somewhere.
DeleteThey park at their home which has parking and walk to the store. Hence the name pedestrian.
ReplyDeleteYea - right. All 10 of them.
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