What Chicago is talking about this week:
... more and more big box stores are proving that there's a way to do it in the big city (despite initial concerns over a working wage and annihilating mom-n-pop stores).
Latest to the party ... the "Clybourn Corridor" near Goose Island will get a brand new PetSmart and a BuyBuyBaby (ooh -- pets and babies for sale in a young professional 'hood -- perfect match). Target was the first big box to make its imprint in the area (and now I can walk to one), and Walmart found a way in despite lots of opposition (and now I can walk to a Walmart express and soon I can walk to a full blown one in the space near where I used to work in the office before taking this remote workforce role).
Final thought: to that lady in the faux fur lined coat at the Walmart Express check out line yesterday who was bragging about how it was the "first time you stepped foot inside a Walmart", I call bullsh!t. You looked just as plebeian as the rest of us ...
PETS AND BABIES FOR SALE (coming soon to the Clybourn Corridor):
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/02/03/new-big-box-shopping-center-coming-near-goose-island/
THE 2010 VERSION OF THE STORY:
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2010/12/10/controversy-erupts-over-east-lakeview-wal-mart-plan/
JUST ONE YEAR LATER, IT'S A DIFFERENT TALE:
http://progressillinois.com/posts/content/2011/10/28/walmart-quietly-gaining-chicago-faces-neighborhood-resistance
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