The Park View Pavilion Coming Soon

[uptowngirl]

I never expected the Epicenter either, I am just saying that 24hr pharmacy is a fancy way to say convience store with drugs, so while that may be better than a crumbling vacant motel- I would prefer to see another type of retail at that spot. We already have like four pharamacies in and around the neighborhood. My concern with this type of business is really around our parks, I can see the trash already in Confederate and the Dog Park.

[tufsu1]

really...how much trash is collected by the Walgreens at Park & King?

[fsujax]

A CVS would be nice. I just hope it isn't under lock down like the one near Shands. I have to ask for a key just to get Axe deodorant!

[Buckethead!]

You're tho one who wears that stuff! 

[fsujax]

haha. it works!

[uptowngirl]

That is where I am going fsujax! TUFSU- Park and King is not even remotely the same as the Parkview in area. Look to the Shell or Winn Dixie.....

I am not against it, SOMETHING needs to be there.... I just hope it is managed correctly because today a 24 hr pharmacy is an "upscale convience store" of which we already have a bunch that we spend weekends cleaning up after :-)

[John P]

Someone mentioned on myspringfield that it was going to be a Walgreens. To compare just look at the Walgreens on Eighth Street. The one on State Street won't have as much foot traffic so it will probably be more tidy.

[uptowngirl]

I hope you are right John P! I look at Winn Dixie and the Shell and start thinking OHHHHHNOOOOOO. But like I said, we need something there.

[thelakelander]

What's wrong with the Walgreens next to Shands?  I don't go there often but when I do it appears to look like any other Walgreens on the inside.

[tufsu1]

exactly Lake...and uptowngirl, please explain what is so bad about the Winn Dixie on State Street?

[uptowngirl]

well, if you enjoy being stalked in the lot and while shopping in the aisles and asked repeatedly for money, then being cursed for not giving it...nothing I guess. If you enjoy purchasing items that are already opened when you get home, standing in line while customers have individual items taking off trying to get to the point they have enough money for, if you do not mind buying those same items that have been sitting waiting to go back to the cooler, and if you do not mind the trash strewn on the sidewalks and crows leading away from the store....nothing I guess.

[tufsu1]

I shop there all the time and have never been asked for money in the aisles...and I've really never had an issue in the parking lot either.

As to the food itself, major improvements were made 3 years ago when the store was renovated...I have had few problems since.

And God forbid people have to use food stamps....sounds to me like you're wishing for the Riverside Publix or something...you do understand where Springfield is located right?

[PeeJayEss]

I shop there all the time and have never been asked for money in the aisles...and I've really never had an issue in the parking lot either.

As to the food itself, major improvements were made 3 years ago when the store was renovated...I have had few problems since.

And God forbid people have to use food stamps....sounds to me like you're wishing for the Riverside Publix or something...you do understand where Springfield is located right?

Hey people use food stamps at the Riverside Publix too, albeit less frequently than at that Winn Dixie. This ain't the 'burbs.

[wsansewjs]

We need a Trader Joe or Whole Food Market here more often. Publix and Winn-Dixie has dominantly inflated the local market to the point that it is much expensive here as it is in California or New York where the living standards are higher and cost more than here in Jacksonville.

-Josh

[copperfiend]

Have you ever lived in New York?