No Whole Foods for Haight?

Brock, I must (with all the love and respect in the world) disagree, and say that the "world's scariest Cala Foods" was the one on Van Ness and 23rd, the one that, under its new management, wouldn't let Beth use her phone.

I feel I can say this with firm authority, as I have lived near and regularly shopped at both locations.

Haight Cala had its share of tweaky freaks, but I saw a guy get stabbed and bleed out by the ice cream at the Van Ness location. I'm a pussy, I admit it, but stabbing=scary.

Well, the supervisors COULD tell HANC to fuck off. Who died and made them king?

us

I worked for Cala 5 years ago and I loved working at that one, even though I lived two blocks from my usual one. The deli there was DEAD. I could go three hours without interacting with another soul. Shit, I'd go up and bag at the checkstands some nights just for something to do.

Not to get all caught up in nostalgia, but does the Haight really need another too-expensive place to buy food? Considering the pizza places and taquerias pretty much suck, you have to put down at least $13 for a decent, quick post-Murio's starchfest unless you're willing to traipse to NB Pizza.

The building maybe "bland and boring" and not "ideal" to many but consider the cost to the neighborhood and city of the loss of property and sales tax revenue and the increase in spending on city services to police the area and treat the myriad of social ills that come with letting blight and neglect like this to continue.

It is high time, no pun intended, the renters and owners alike who are paying some of the highest cost of living in the United States have a board of supervisors that know how to legislate and compromise to bring new investment into the neighborhoods and stop the slow decay of this "international city".

It is time to elect a board that helps move this city forward instead of being stuck in it's past. The "Summer of Love" was 40 years ago, Jerry Garcia is dead, and the "trust no one over 30!" baby boomer's are collecting social security checks.

The international, Vermont based, corporate CHAIN Ben and Jerry's occupies Haight and Ashbury along with high end boutiques that cater to tourists.

It is time to return the Haight to the residents who live there and provide them non rotting housing and local services instead of a tourist trap mecca second only to fisherman's wharf

@mattymatt- it's a little too "black and white" to say that all nearby residents are on board except for Sup. Mirkarimi and HANC, who "want" a parking lot. There are some shades of grey on this issue.

-edit to correct my poor grammar!

it will give back to the Haight in the form of property tax revenue, sales tax revenue, and decreased spending on city services to deal with the issues vacant lots and rotting building demand.

So we have more income for cash strapped SF, less spending and new residents.

And I for one would shop there. I currently live in District 5 not far from the haight in NoPa but I currently do most of my weekly shopping at the Whole Foods in SoMa. There are plenty of residents in Buena Vista/Ashbury Heights, the Haight, Lower Haight, Castro, Upper Market NoPa that would travel to this area to shop at a Whole Foods. There is then the halo affect on the other business nearby that see increased foot traffic based on the shoppers now attracted to the area by the much needed grocery store.

Whatever happened to the good ol' days, when a development project could get railroaded through the planning process and built despite overwhelming community objection? I miss those days.

personally i could care less, but lets not fool ourselves that this will give anything back to the haight community,

Are you high? That was my neighborhood/grocery for 3 years. I don't own a car. I saved money by walking groceries home. When Cala closed, I moved. A grocery store is a grocery store. Communities need them. Everything else is fluff.

"Word" on EFNY.

I don't know dick about the Haight, but I'm happy as hell to see a new grocery market opened up on Howard at 6th Street in SoMa that sells lotsa fresh fruits and produce for the neighborhood over there .... slowly but surely, 6th Street is starting to show some hope!

Belgand

A grocery store and more housing would be great, but a Whole Foods wouldn't. We really don't need more development in the Haight that's only going to serve to further gentrify it. How about a grocery store that people can actually afford to shop at?

Just taking the first thing offered to you and considering it good enough results in being stuck with something inadequate in the future. We need to be picky and wait until something affordable comes along.

Well, actually that happened with the Trader Joe's, but people complained then that it would increase traffic. That's the one you should be up in arms over, not the dismissal of a yuppie supermarket that won't actually provide a much-needed grocery store where the majority of residents can actually afford to shop.

Excuse me, but as you all need to be told, it is not possible to make New York pizza without New York water. EFNY is pretty darn close (at least they know what a thin crust is) but no cigar, amici.

A perfect example of what is wrong with SF. More density! More housing! And a fucking grocery store in every neighborhood! Oh, wait, the homeless, tweeker junkie shitting in front of your house has rights too.