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[Matt R.]

Stubborn Chef and Marble Arch

Matt.

[Mike K.]

July 05.

 

Whole Foods is only several months away from its grand opening at Uptown.

 

[HB]

Most of the Americans I work with on a daily basis refer to the business as Whole Wallet or Whole Paycheck not Whole Foods

[sdwright.vic]

Can't be any worse then "Thrifty" Foods.

[jonny]

HB, I don't think truckers are Whole Foods' target market.

[lanforod]

The grand opening is likely the only time I will visit this store lol.

[Sparky]

I went to Whole Foods in Burnaby Saturday just to see what we can expect.

 

I am going to need more money to shop there. Wholy Moly.

[Nparker]

...I am going to need more money to shop there. Wholy Moly.

Whole Foods puts the "Whole" in Whole-y Moley

[aastra]

Is the store going to be staffed by vampires? The architecture suggests a lot of windows but the actual windows are few, no?

Edited by aastra, 06 July 2016 - 08:59 AM.

[sdwright.vic]

I believe all the upper parts of the windows are into the store. Skylights throughout, and the front in nothing but windows. More than Walmart.

[Gary H]

Douglas to Carey progress...

 

The right turn lane to Carey Rd. from Douglas is just about done.  I guess cyclists are also supposed to share that right turn lane?  It also seems the crosswalk needs a bit of realigning.

 

 

 

Edited by Gary H, 26 July 2016 - 03:49 PM.

[AllseeingEye]

Our teen daughter started working a second p/t job at one of the spas at Uptown; last night I had the pleasure of picking her up. Yowza....with the new Brown's Social House, a soon-to-be Whole Foods and the residential tower in the not too distant future adding more traffic this is going to be "interesting". If last night was an indication it should be fun.....

[VicHockeyFan]

Our teen daughter started working a second p/t job at one of the spas at Uptown; last night I had the pleasure of picking her up. Yowza....with the new Brown's Social House, a soon-to-be Whole Foods and the residential tower in the not too distant future adding more traffic this is going to be "interesting". If last night was an indication it should be fun.....

 

The residential tower will only add maybe 35 people per day to the place.  Estimates of local traffic are largely overly optimistic.

[AllseeingEye]

Was actually thinking more of the increased traffic generated by Whole Foods and especially in addition to the Douglas/Carey Road reconfiguration. It was a gong show with gridlocked cars and horns blaring in the area of the underground at the intersection where  Brown's is, immediately adjacent to where the tower will be and directly below the W-F. And this was on a Monday at 6:45....

[jonny]

The roads around Brown's are already quite busy. With the Whole Foods and especially when the remaining vacant units at Uptown are leased, this place is going to be busy!

[HB]

The more I drives down Blanshard the more I hate that wall of no windows on the backside. Who had that brilliant idea.

 

Also a lot of the Americans I deal with through work on a daily basis say that Wholefoods should be renamed as Whole Wallet or Whole Paycheck.

[Coreyburger]

The more I drives down Blanshard the more I hate that wall of no windows on the backside. Who had that brilliant idea.

My understanding is that developer wanted store fronts but wanted parking as well, which MoTI wasn't willing to go with (as they own Blanshard St in Saanich)

[HB]

That whole side though should have had windows instead of a Berlin Wall. It was bad enough looking at the back side of the Woolco Store not much of an improvement aesthetically speaking. Saanich and Moth should also think about installing a pedestrian overpass

When I see people crossing that road it brings me back a few decades to the arcade game Frogger

[sdwright.vic]

Windows into a parking garage?

[HB]

Yes indeed open walls like city parkades not a utilitarian wall of nothing. It offensive.

Edited by HB, 27 July 2016 - 08:42 AM.