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If your familiar with City Diner restaurant, then you know the dead shopping center it is located in.  The news on the street for quite some time was that the city is looking to redevelop this area and bring in new businesses; the proposed site may attract one of the biggest Whole Foods Market yet.  It one of the many ideas slung around in Nancy Pyle’s District 10 campaign to better serve the local residents by giving them what they want and need when it comes to their consumer shopping choices all the while reving up more $$$ in the City’s seventh largest district it has for incoming sales tax revenue. 

The idea was recently shot down at a City Council meeting on November 20th, the reason:  Liqueur.  Apparently, there seems to be too many liquor licenses in that zone, despite that the run down Rite-Aid (along with their current liquor license) is moving out.  The concern to those voting on the issue was that this may have a negative impact on the lower income apartment neighborhood that is adjacent to the proposed site. 

Now, I may be wrong here, but I’m sure Rite-Aid’s cheap generic vodka brand at $10. has more of an impact than a $12. bottle of organic wine.  I don’t know of any “hoods” where the beverage of choice is organic. 

There seems to be a larger political issue at hand here, for they have now pushed back the opportunity of Whole Foods coming to the Blossom Hill Road area.  This shopping center has been a sore spot for some time to the residents of Almaden Valley, I’m partial to them doing something to it that will help bring up the area despite the added congestion it will add to the intersection at Almaden Expressway.

Lastly, I’m a big time organic produce shopper and an everyday juicer kind of gal.  Intriqued, I asked the produce folks at the recently rennovated Lucky’s and Safeway markets that service this surrounding community about their plans to compete with the arrival of Whole Foods; shockingly they were unaware that they had some competition moving in.  I guess they would rather keep their heads in the lettuce section.