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Harvest Co-op to open Forest Hills location
By adamg on Mon, 04/18/2011 - 12:54pm
The Jamaica Plain Gazette reports the Cambridge-based co-op market will open a new outlet as part of a retail project planed for MBTA-owned land near the Forest Hills T stop.
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inquiring minds want to know
How many aisles will be devoted to homeopathic remedy shit like at the existing store?
The foolish have every right
The foolish have every right to spend their money any way they want.
Oh no...
Cue the shrieks of "This will gentrify the neighborhood" in 3... 2...
clearly you have a poor
clearly you have a poor understanding of socio-economics , so ill leave you w/ this tidbit, "location, location, location."
You may now carry on with your smart ass retorts
Great, does that mean
that the anti-Whole Foods contingent will pipe down? Probably not.
This is the land that should
This is the land that should already have buildings on it, workers going to jobs on it, and tax money being paid on it, but the 'community meetings' went on for so long that - sure enough - the economic cycle went down and now there's no money to build.
Seems kinda weird since there
Seems kinda weird since there is another Harvest Co-Op around 1/2 mile down the street on South St.? Does that mean the original one will close? Seems like a bit over-saturation to me if they keep both.
Harvest GM says South Street would stay open
And he says they'll sell beer and wine at the new location, too. Here's an updated story from JP Patch, which I edit.
JP already has a Harvest near Forest Hills
Harvest Co-op already has a location in JP. In fact, it's right up the street from the Forest Hills stop at 57 South St.
Think about that for a minute: there is already a Harvest store that you can walk to from Forest Hills in under 10 minutes.
I'm guessing that they want a bigger store
which is impossible at their current location.
Back in the early 1990s
Harvest proposed building a brand new store in what was then the vacant lot across from the Curley School. Neighborhood opposition prevented that from happening, and that empty lot is now a parking lot and small park. Harvest did the next best thing -- it moved into an existing building (the old Arborway Foods) that was too small from the beginning.
It'll be great to see what a store they design from the ground up looks like. Congratulations to the Forest Hills neighborhood!