Somerville’s first Trader Joe’s to open in 2017

[serious-noir.livejournal.com]

From the Globe:

Come next year, Somerville residents won’t have to go far to pick up a bottle (or two) of their favorite Two Buck Chuck.

Next summer Trader Joe’s plans to open its 19th Massachusetts location at 133 Middlesex Ave. near Assembly Square Marketplace, the grocery chain said Friday.

It’s Trader Joe’s first foray into Somerville, whose next-door neighbor Cambridge currently boasts two branches.

In addition to TJ’s fresh-baked breads, Arabica bean coffees, and its many frozen entrées, Somerville foodies will have another reason to smile: the 12,500 square-foot grocery will also carry beer and wine.

Just five of Trader Joe’s Massachusetts stores sell such libations; three of them—Brookline, Peabody, and the Foxborough Trader Joe’s at Patriot Place—carry liquor in addition to beer and wine.

– http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/05/20/somerville-first-trader-joe-open/rrQ0nXX08TtkyNfoA561WK/story.html

Comments

[kelkyag]

Crossing under 93 near the S&S or on McGrath is more perilous than I'd like, but crossing at Temple or Mt. Vernon is fairly reasonable. That said, the easier crossings are annoyingly out of the way if you're starting betwen them. Or is there a different life-threatening section you're pondering?

[ron_newman]

Or at Shore Drive, or at Wheatland Street.

[craigindaville.livejournal.com]

I would be crossing at the S&S crossing, which is dicey in the daytime and suicidal after dark. Not to mention the general skeeviness of the underpass area.

[kelkyag]

A couple of lights with pedestrian crossing push-buttons and a serious scrubbing would make that crossing a whole lot nicer. (Bonus points for a mural.) I have to wonder if any improvements there are in the city's plans. Not sure how I'd look that up.

[craigindaville.livejournal.com]

City's aware of it and working on it, but the improvements aren't coming any time soon it would seem:

http://bostinno.streetwise.co/2015/07/06/somerville-assembly-row-development-kensington-underpass-design-proposal/

Kensington Underpass

[kelkyag]

And that's the most recent thing a quick google search is finding for it. Having a name is useful, thank you!