So walking through the thunderstorm from Aisle Nine in the old city Monday evening, I thought, "man it would be nice to have some option for groceries that isn't 10 blocks away from my place".
Yes I know, we just got our first psuedo-grocery last year and I'm being unrealistic. But this post is about developments, not my grumblings SO BACK OFF!
The next day Mrs. The Pol and I headed for a pint and saw this:
So the crappy "General Store" is getting work done, so what? Well I remembered a conversation I had with a worker there, and an email exchange with the parent company HT Hackney. The "General Store" (hopefully soon to get a new name) is becoming more of a proper grocery store. This is fantastic! #1 it is more convenient for me and #2 competition is always better for the consumer, i.e. me.
Then later on my walk I remembered about this little jewel:
Just Ripe should be a great addition to our little community to provide those fresh ingredients for daily consumption that are otherwise missing from the other providers of foodstuffs downtown, plus be a filler between farmers market days and off months.
I am so excited to see all of this moving forward and our downtown finally coming into its own.
Now if we only had a store where I could play Dungeons and Dragons...
Thursday, April 07, 2011
More is Better
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8 comments:
Organized Play in Old City hosts Dungeons and Dragons games. Or they did, at least.
To your last sentence: bahaha!
PS anyone know when Just Ripe is opening?
andrea is right. I talked to a dude who went there to play dungeons and dragons.
I'm presuming sarcasm on your part, Pol, in that last sentence.
Organized Play has good board games too.
And Laurel Creek Meat is moving downtown, into the new General Store, at the first of summer.
http://www.laurelcreekmeat.com/
OMG, Anonymous, that is the most awesome news! Yay!
More info on Just Ripe:
http://mrankin81.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/just-ripe-blooms-with-a-spring-opening/
Well isn't this good news? I hope they do well and I'll do my part to support them. We all should after whining we need shops like that. Me included! When a good community business opens the community should support it if it want's to keep it, after all it is 'business'. With Just Ripe, this new shop, and the Union Avenue Bookstore about to open any minute....I almost can't contain myself. I'll live at that bookstore and hopefully stop having to drive to Kroger....which is nearly the only thing I leave downtown to go do anymore other than to meet an occasional client and hit the Target for tp. hahaha
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