Urban Planning gone wrong

[m00n.livejournal.com]

While we are on the topic of community development, does anyone have an explanation for there now being a third convenience store in Teele Square within view of the other two?



Beyond the fact that I don't feel like these stores contribute much (if anything) to the community, I'm kind of wondering how it is that this neighborhood can even support three of them (four if you count the Indian market down the street that sells pretty much all the same stuff).

I don't mean to be such a community troll about these things, but I live in that neighborhood and it is starting to get a little depressing...

Comments

Re: Pizza

[geekpixie.livejournal.com]

Wasn't that actually a pizza place a long time before something happened and it was damaged/rendered unusable? I think that was the pizzeria that was there before coming back..

Re: Pizza

[ron_newman]

I thought it was a Chinese restaurant before?

Re: Pizza

[geekpixie.livejournal.com]

I remember seeing a comment about there being a fire there, or something else previously, and that it had been a pizza place. I looked back a ways in restaurant tags and tried the search tool (hah) but couldn't find the entry. I might be misremembering..

Re: Pizza

[ron_newman]

And I could be wrong, or there could have been more than one fire on that part of Broadway. I don't get up there very often.

I thought it was another Real Estate place...

[turil.livejournal.com]

That's what I remembered from a few years ago.

Re: Pizza

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

There was a fire a couple of years back, but before that, the place where Guru is now was a Chinese restaurant (Szechuan Garden, I think? Before that it was Sesame, sister of Wang's in Magoun) and the corner where Marino's is was a coffeeshop, Pete's I think? They sometimes had a sign that said "Last coffee before Rt 16/2!"

Re: Pizza

[ron_newman]

If that was their name, maybe the sign should have been "Not to be confused with Peets"

Re: Pizza

[jamiesquared.livejournal.com]

They changed their name to Wicked Coffee or something like that a few months before the fire. The people who ran it were SO nice too and I think they just disappeared from this area :(

The hair salon was there too but I think that moved down?

Re: Pizza

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

Do you mean Little Joe's Coffee Shop? I use to LOVE that place.

Re: Pizza

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

I think I did mean that, but as noted by jamiesquared, they changed their name (or some signs at least) to Wicked Coffee, so my brain immediately goes to "Pete's". :)

Re: Pizza

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

I never tried it when it was Wicked Coffee. Joe's had really good bagel sandwiches, though.

Re: Pizza

[ceo]

Are you thinking of the Urban Gourmet in Ball Square, which had a fire about four years ago? The space finally reopened as Eat At Joe's last month.

Re: Pizza

[ron_newman]

that's Eat at Jumbo's

Re: Pizza

[ceo]

Um, yeah, that.