Gowanus Whole Foods: Spring '08 Opening

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>>>The big store is expected to draw up to 1,800 cars an hour at peak times.

Between Fairway, Ikea and Whole Foods, that's a lot of emphasis on accommodating cars in a borough where there's a whole lot of people who can't afford to drive, or opt out of it.

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Please don't forget the Arena scam, and the 3000+ car parking lot that's going to to exist in Prospect Heights {not far away} for many years.

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Actually I think Shelley will block or delay Netscam, since if it's not downtown, that's what he does. Then he'll be Brooklyn's best pal...

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Whole Foods likes to cultivate an image environmentally friendliness and sensitivity towards the neighborhood. And yet they're entering the 2nd most densely populated county in the country, expecting to draw 1,800 cars per hour?

It's a sick, sad shame.

(Note to Marty: there's no cars in Venice.)

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The concern over car traffic is valid but its not as if people are going to go out and buy more cars to go to Whole Foods. In other words this building is not going to lead to more people buying cars.

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cars are so 80's lets just walk to the nearest tree and pick our fresh fruit

shut the fuck up you whining asswipe dipshit

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From your lips to God's (or Sheldn's) ears, Kevin...

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Treehugger. Driving to the grocery store is anti-urban. You're not anti-urban are you?

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is this even necessary? who wants this ugly monstrosity of 'organic foods' in an industrial area near scrap yards encouraging 1800 oil guzzling cars 'organically' helping the environment? Why must everything be gentrified and why must we pretend to like it? You wanna fight for the people? Allow smaller, better paying jobs to flourish in the neighborhood- like the industrial ones already present. Why raise a neighborhood from 'grit' to outprice it and make it bland?

down with whole foods. keep the canal the way it is .... it's toxic anyway.