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You have to give TJ's credit; unlike some other places (Fairway.....) they are not in any rush to expand and only open new locations after *VERY* careful consideration and research. In other words if they don't think the place will bring in numbers, then the location isn't chosen.
My peeps on the UWS are thrilled a new TJs is slated to open :
How is it "predatory"? That Associated has been there since 1989 and moved in when area was *vastly* different than it is today. According to the terms of the least LL had the option to up the rent to market rate in the last third (five years) of a fifteen year lease. Associated should have seen this coming a long time ago. You only have to walk north along 8th Avenue towards 23rd Street to see where commercial rents have gone and the effects thereof.
Food Emporium was part of A&P and thus are gone with the bankruptcy. All stores that were not sold (and there were a good number) closed as of Thanksgiving day 2015.
I had no idea that Food Emporium was gone, but now who will make a store just for me?
Food Emporium was part of A&P and thus are gone with the bankruptcy. All stores that were not sold (and there were a good number) closed as of Thanksgiving day 2015.
Even the gentry complaining now. We have reached a new level.
Not so much the "gentry" only, but many professional politicians, union members and bosses, and the usual demographic for NYC these days that feels "threatened"; lower income households.
As the above linked article makes clear that Associated moved to 14th and 8th decades ago when the area was totally different. Now that it is what it is the property owner, as is their right, wants to benefit.
New York City and to an extent NYS has this perpetual problem of dragooning if not outright forcing private enterprise to be part of "must provide for the poor" constitutional mandate.
Not content with basically controlling residential real estate market (and look what that has got NYC), it would appear many in city government want to do the same with commercial real estate as well. That will not end well.
No, it probably won't as Walgreen's is soon going to have their dirty mitts on Rite Aid as well. Given what they did to Duane Reade (jacked up prices), don't see them doing anything different with Rite Aid.
Pity really as RA has some damn good specials and sales on many staples like Bounty, Tide, Gain, etc...
Ahhh. So that's what happened to Duane Reade. I remember the Duane Reade of old. They had better deals, prices and their Reward points were less stingy.
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