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l33tminion) wrote2012-11-12 10:57 pm
l33tminion) wrote2012-11-12 10:57 pm
The Neighborhood Changes
So this is happening:
That's my neighborhood grocery store, gone for good. That store is one of six Johnny's Foodmaster locations to be bought by Whole Foods (which will probably take a year to renovate the place before reopening). Another Foodmaster location is becoming a Stop & Shop, the remaining three are being liquidated.
The neighborhood changes slowly, but I've been here a while now. Restaurants flow into (Journeyman, Back Bar, Casa B, Radio, The Bearded Pig) and out of (Ronnarang, The Bearded Pig (almost immediately)) Union Square. An office building at the corner of my street was changed into condos and a day-care this fall. There's an ongoing neighborhood conflict over a plan for an affordable housing development in Union. And the extension of the Green Line to Union is scheduled for 2017. (I expect it will happen eventually, though quite probably not on time.)
That's my neighborhood grocery store, gone for good. That store is one of six Johnny's Foodmaster locations to be bought by Whole Foods (which will probably take a year to renovate the place before reopening). Another Foodmaster location is becoming a Stop & Shop, the remaining three are being liquidated.
The neighborhood changes slowly, but I've been here a while now. Restaurants flow into (Journeyman, Back Bar, Casa B, Radio, The Bearded Pig) and out of (Ronnarang, The Bearded Pig (almost immediately)) Union Square. An office building at the corner of my street was changed into condos and a day-care this fall. There's an ongoing neighborhood conflict over a plan for an affordable housing development in Union. And the extension of the Green Line to Union is scheduled for 2017. (I expect it will happen eventually, though quite probably not on time.)