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Salt Lake has a Harmon’s in th heart of downtown, and in my opinion, the nicest grocery store in the state. West downtown at “the Gateway” just put in a grocer called “the store”. Just east of downtown between the University and downtown is a Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, Smith’s, and a Sprouts all close to each other.
Boise is doing good as far as downtown groceries. There are a few good sized bodegas, a Trader Joes, Whole Foods, Winco and one of the top organic community owned natural food grocery stores in the nation, The Boise Co-Op, is a few blocks from the heart of downtown. There is also an upscale Albertsons on the edge of downtown.
For Orlando, not so much groceries (there's a Publix downtown, even though it sucks), but definitely retail. I believe there is one boutique or something on Central tucked between bars and restaurants, but really nothing else.
Maybe once SoDo is properly connected to the downtown core, it will feel different, with the SoDo Shopping Center (AKA Atlantic Station ripoff) nearby, but until then, it's sorely lacking in that department..
Oklahoma City should be listed in the poll. This is a topic that has been discussed for years by local boosters, development bloggers, etc. in that city.
DTLA has a Whole Foods, Ralphs, and Target but doesn't have any supermarkets in its two largest residential neighborhoods - South Park and Historic Core. But I think that every neighborhood except South Park has at least one grocery store, bodega, drug store or combination. And South Park is getting a new grocery store.
As far as how many more grocery stores are needed, at least a couple now and more in the future. As far as supermarkets, with delivery I'm not sure. It's different now than just a few years ago.
Downtown Atlanta has a full service 2 level Walgreens and a CVS, but no supermarkets. Adjacent Midtown is much more populated and has several corner markets, two Publix's, a full sized Target with a large food section and the largest Whole Foods in the Southeast. The new Midtown Union development that just launched is looking to snag either Trader Joe's or Sprouts.
Downtown could definitely use a grocery store...maybe not a full-service one at this point but at least a small specialty grocer somewhere easily accessible to GSU and the big hotels.
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