New Fresh Market

[Overstreet]

New store to open soon. I heard they were going to soft open next week.

[reednavy]

That'd be soon, I went by there last week and interior construction looked far from done.

[fsu813]

Overstreet,

you said.... "they perform a market study before opening a store.  They check population,  median income and distance to other shopping. Then there is the "niching".  What kind of figures do you think the Urban core has?"

- i think b/t Riverside, San Marco, Murray Hill, Avondale, Springfield & Downtown........a Whole Foods would do just fine. That's more than enough "green", "upscale" shoppers to sustain it. Plus, everyone that works in the area but lives elsewhere that would stop by on the the way home too.

[reednavy]

If another WF is coming to town, it'd likely be out at the Beach.

[billy]

This is at Julington?

[Tripoli1711]

I think Riverside area would make much more sense than the beach.  The beach is a lot more Terry's Country Store types than you might suspect.  (I love Terry's, so there's nothing wrong w/ that)

[reednavy]

Good luck convincing WF to open another location here anyways. They do steady business, but they're likely not busy enough to warrant another location in the near future for the area.

Their biggest tipping point is when they look at demographics within the area before they procede with plans. As of right now, no other part of town could likely support a WF besides the Beaches.

[Overstreet]

WF could always follow Harris Teeter. Open a Mandarin Store things go OK so you open one in Ponte Vedra.  Then close the Mandarin store when the novelty wears off and run the PV store for a while longer. Then move out of Florida.

The Fresh Market opened last week.

[thekillingwax]

The new FM is really nice. They kept the same cozy interior feel but the layout is a little better with more space for the meat and deli areas and there seems to be more room in the aisles as well.

[Sportmotor]

This will be a happening spot for those in Julington Creek. I guess this is as close as they can get to Julington Creek w/o actually being in St. Johns County and paying their taxes. Smart move IMO.

That intersection area is dangrous already with the bar there and drunk boaters coming and going from it. and that (nearly)blind corner that people love to run the light at and whip out infront of you. Not really thrilled with that addition to be honest since its become far more dangrous to drive through every day.

BUT YEA ITS A SLAPHAPPENING PLACE

(>_>) *shakes my paw menicingly at all you whipersnappers*

[Bativac]

Did they close the old San Jose location already?

[Overstreet]

................That intersection area is dangrous already with the bar there and drunk boaters coming and going from it. and that (nearly)blind corner that people love to run the light at and whip out infront of you. Not really thrilled with that addition to be honest since its become far more dangrous to drive through every day............

Driving the speed limit north bound across the bridge helps. Many of the accidents have been the drivers from Julington Creek Road not stopping or negotciating the corner. 

Don't worry about the bar crowd. Nothing stays in business at that location for long.

[Sportmotor]

Driving the speed limit north bound across the bridge helps. Many of the accidents have been the drivers from Julington Creek Road not stopping or negotciating the corner. 

Don't worry about the bar crowd. Nothing stays in business at that location for long.

I drive the speed limit, if no where in town then right there around that 2 miles past and before that intersection.

I have noticed over the 10+ years NOTHING seems to last long in that spot lol