Yippee! Another County Market is coming to town! As if we didn’t have enough of them already.
OK, so I’m happy for those kids in Campustown who don’t have a beemer to drive to Schnuck’s. There wasn’t a grocery within walking distance of my college campus either, so I know what a pain that is. But County Market? Can’t we do better?
This whole Burnham project is a joke. First, it is eating our tax dollars. I was willing to tolerate that in exchange for the beloved Trader Joe’s. But County Market, you are no Trader Joe’s.
More on this later — the computer just ate this post and I have a lot more to say on this topic.
2 responses so far ↓
Gamera // September 9, 2006 at 4:46 pm
I’m disappointed, too. I want a Trader Joe’s….
Choo Choo Train « little blog on the prairie // September 27, 2006 at 7:40 pm
[...] I say “as promised” because there seems to be a lot of broken ones around here lately. Perhaps “promise” is too strong of a word. Maybe as “expected” is more accurate. It is me, or this community notorious for floating grandiose plans that rarely materialize? Case in point is the park-and-ride daycare mentioned in the previous post. And then there’s the infamous case of the nonexistent Banana Republic at Marketplace Mall. And we all know about the balagan (that’s a great Hebrew word for mess and also is fun to say) that is the Burnham redevelopment project. [...]
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