Center Grove - No Home Depot meeting
The Village of Center Grove Neighborhood Association will have its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday, September 20, 2006.
Strategies are being planned on the continuing fight to keep the Home Depot out of the Grove, according to association board member Sue McConnell. I personally would love to know who gave permission to put this sign up.
The meeting will focus on the HomeDespot's Depot's appeal of the Historic and Environmental Preservation Board's decision revoking the store's permit to remove or relocate 105 trees at the Grove Gate center. They don't even have permission to put up a sign, yet they were already preparing to destroy a bunch of trees before any appeals.
The Village of Center Grove Neighborhood Association meets at 7 p.m. the third Wednesday of the month at the Coconut Grove Sailing Club, 2990 S. Bayshore Dr.
For more information, visit www.vocg.org .
Strategies are being planned on the continuing fight to keep the Home Depot out of the Grove, according to association board member Sue McConnell. I personally would love to know who gave permission to put this sign up.
The meeting will focus on the Home
The Village of Center Grove Neighborhood Association meets at 7 p.m. the third Wednesday of the month at the Coconut Grove Sailing Club, 2990 S. Bayshore Dr.
For more information, visit www.vocg.org .
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I realize i'm probably the only person out there who reads the grapevine who is supporting the class II permit to allow the Max Strang design for Home Depot and Milams. There, I've said it! The momentum of the anti-HD movement is such that their ferver blinds them to the reality of HD being able to open in the old ugly big box store which exists on the property. They do have that right. Max Milam phoned me in Maine last week to ask me if I still supported the Class II Permit. Seems he's a Grove merchant who would like to stay and he knows if the permit isn't allowed, HD moves into the existing building and it's business as usual. No great design implementation; no thoughtful architecture, just same old ugly building. I gave Max my wholehearted support, and emailed the City. I would like to think I'm not the sole voice, but time will tell.
We're not going to lose a quaint old Grove cottage to a big box store. The big box store is already there. Has been since the 60's. We're going to lose our Grove grocery - - Milam's
Here is one of the main problems, Max Milam phoned you in Maine! We don't care what people in Maine think! Why doesn't he talk to people that live here, in the Grove, where they are trying to ruin the community!
As for losing Milam's, I am all for it. There years of overpricing and terrible service need to end. Let bring in Publix.
I don't think anyone who works in Milam's has ever had a smile on their face. It must be such a terrible place to work. I know it is a terrible place to shop. The loss of Milam's will not be missed.
i've been a resident of the grove since 1963 and was on a well deserved vacation when Max Milam phoned me. I don't think you speak for the majority of Milam's shoppers at all. That store offers a wider variety and more interesting foods than any Publix ever will! And maybe, come to think of it, workers have sad faces because they'll soon lose their job, thanks to you.
wait...you're trying to say Milam's has a selection? They overstock uncommon items for the 10% people that buy them and run out of the basics (milk, etc) that the other 90% of people buy. That should not be the philosophy of a medium to large sized community grocery store. If you ask me, it's a doomed business whether home depot kicks them out or not unless management does an overhaul in their buying/stocking department.
Business can't be too good because the majority of perishable items in the store are expired. Last week I tried to buy yogurt. I usually stock up for the week but only walked out of the store with 3 containers...the rest (20+) were all dated to be sold by last week and some as far back as late August.
Once I bought a 6-pack of Perrier and someone drank one of the bottles and put it back in the container, unnoticed...and another time I wanted to make brownies so I went to Milam's and bought a boxed mix only to come home and find maggots in the bottom of the box.
Stuff is obviously sitting on Milam's shelves too long which makes it safe to say a large number of Grove residents do not frequent the store as much as they did in the past.
I'll stand in long lines at the Fresh Market or sit in traffic to cross US1 and go to Publix anyday...and my closest friends all agree. While I'm against Home Depot moving in, I wouldn't be heartbroken to see Milams either move out or remodel.
Jess
-Day Ave.
This is not really about Milam, which is untenable... yet it seems to exist. It's about the Home Depot there. It is well worth fighting and boycotting. It will add tons and tons of traffic, bottlenecks and draw hundreds of people every day for what? Lousy service, a bit less money on day to day supplies. Not worth it at all. I personally would rather pay a bit more, go to Poes for the day to day stuff and get great service.
That property is a joke. Seedy dated and dangerous. Home Depot is the best thing to happen to the site in 20 years. I don't see anyone else willing to invest in that site. Also, the jobs it will create for our friends in the West Grove who have nothing to do now except hang out on street corners. They will be able to walk to work.
Look at the Home Depot store on SW 8th Street and what it's done to that neighborhood. Can you honestly say you would rather have that than nothing? I'd rather have nothing. Nowhere but that store (SW 8th Street)is there a Home Depot so close to a neighborhood and now they want to dump one in the Grove. By their own admission the store is a disaster. There are some things worth fighting for and keeping Home Depot out is one of them.
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