The Twin Peaks Mall haas been purchased by Panattoni Development Corp and the planned renovations by previous owner CBL to make a 29th-Street-type outdoor mall are off the table. However the new owners do like the general concept, apparently. The comment that "Longmont needs a natural grocer" in the Times Call presumes much. If the need is so strong, one would have been there by now. More from the Boulder County Business Report on this too.
Besides, people can zip south down Hwy 287 from Longmont to the new Super WalMart and get organics in a couple weeks anyway. And there's only about four stoplights to manage on the whole stretch. Plus the increased flow will be certain to help fill the state patrol's coffers with speeding tickets. Another side benefit of economic development!
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Vitamin Cottage Natural Foods and the Longmont Co-op might not take kindly to the presumption that Longmont has no natural grocers.
Having tried to shop at Whole Foods (returned to King Soopers after seeing my food bill double), I'm surprised this market niche survives. Since some people will spend whatever it takes to cloak themselves in the appropriate image, I'm guessing this is what drives the natural grocer business. Much more trendy to discuss your Whole Foods purchase with friends than to discuss the specials at KS.
This means, of course, the natural grocer customers in Longmont would have to be hog-tied and dragged down 287 to shop at the new SuperCenter.
Wouldn't these people be the same who oppose WalMart at every turn?
Heaven help us if the Whole Foods/Wild Oats customers willingly start shopping at WalMart for their groceries. It will be the end of times.
P.S. It's not just the State Patrol who wins with increased traffic/ticketing on 287. With the Goose Haven flagpole annexation, Lafayette PD patrols 287 all the way north to Jay Rd.
The so-called "organics" at Walmart are a miserable failure for them and customers. Whole Foods serves a wealthier client than Longmont. Longmont's citizes are regressive and not forward thinking. Boulder's are. This optimism and leadership translates into career success and higher income. Its not about image Boulder citizens are slimmer, more successful, more energetic and happier.
If you think about how Vitamin Cottage got to Lafayette you can say it was just serendipity, or perhaps an example of how the free market corrects itself, or even how government economic intervention does work under the right circumstances. Many Lafayette Councils heard the cry for a natural food grocer, none wanted to come here. Then we had a rash of applications for pharmacy businesses (one being Ekard drug). We got a lot of complaints about why do we allow so many of the same types of businesses so close to each other (council regulates zoning, and through that business, and zoning does not contain restrictions on how many of the same type, which may be a good thing when you consider how many successful Mexican restaurants we have on a short stretch of public road). Ekard Closes one month after opening, the building goes on the block. City hears that Vitamin Cottage is bidding, but Good Will is bidding higher. Presto chango, one economic agreement for $200k and the city has a successful natural foods store. What is the moral of the story? You decide!
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