But the dumbfounded questions kept coming, so about a month into our stay, I decided to find this bountiful harvest while out on a run.
It was so disappointing.
For those from out of the area, Bishops Corner is really nothing more than a congested intersection with four shopping plazas. Several storefronts are empty, and the rest are mostly reserved for grocery stores (there are, what 4 different grocery stores in BC?), McDonald's, a Staples, Marshalls, and other smaller establishments. Absolutely nothing life changing.
But, truth be told, the Professor and I have taken to visiting Bishops Corner here and there. We get out pet supplies at the aptly named Pet Supplies Plus, most of our groceries at Waldbaum's.
Which leads me to the story in yesterday's Hartford Courant concerning the Whole Foods in old BC. According to a federal antitrust settlement, it must be closed or sold:
The store, one of two Whole Foods locations in West Hartford, had been a Wild Oats store until Whole Foods Market Inc. bought Wild Oats Markets Inc. in 2007. It is one of 13 stores — 12 former Wild Oats locations and one that was a Whole Foods before the merger — that Whole Foods must sell within six months under the company's settlement with the Federal Trade Commission.After reading the full article, this ruling makes sense. I already thought it was pretty ridiculous for the town to have TWO Whole Foods, but if the Bishops Corner store ends up empty or sold to a company that leaves a vacant lot, the area is going to end up looking like a ghost town.
Or . . . this finally gives me the opportunity to open my long dreamt of (insert silly idea here)!
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I never got the love for Bishops Corner. I avoid it like the plague.
It must be nostalgia for when Bishops Corner was swankier.
Oh but the sidewalks and lamp posts are beautiful, thanks to a zillion dollars of WH Town bonding. So before, we were getting the opportunity to pay over the course of many years to pretty-up the edges of scuzzy strip malls near an intersection we have little control over (Albany Avenue is a state road). NOW we get to pay to do it for VACANT scuzzy strip malls. What could be better?
OR MAYBE - Good Ole Tom's will expand into that space. Just the kind of "swanky" vendor WH needs. I need me some of that Cash Money!
long dreamt of...silly putty outlet?
Misinformation runs amok in west hartford for sure. The fact is, if no one buys the store in 6 months, it remains open and remains Whole Foods!
Yeah, I realized that and wrote another post about it a few days later:
http://trailingspouseobservations.blogspot.com/2009/03/maybe-there-wont-be-another-empty-store.html
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