The original Whole Foods spot on Esplanade and Ponce de Leone, the long time community grocery that had patrons the likes of Lenny Kravitz, has become a real source of contention for us in MidCity because the big Whole Food – the one that is supposed to be so community friendly, but who left the community stranded without a grocery in order to open two obscenely huge big box stores – sold the market to Lakeview Fine Foods cum Market on Esplanade who put in a ton of money but not a ton of thought into running a small neighborhood grocery in a bohemian well-versed foodie community and then left it vacant wanting a bucket load of money because they had overspent – but the good news is that we have a new grocery and it should be up and running by next month and I CANNOT WAIT!
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