Fresh & Easy has submitted plans to locate a new grocery market at the northwest corner of Redlands Blvd. and Mountain View Avenue in the Southern California city of Loma Linda, reports The Sun, a newspaper in San Bernardino County, where Loma Linda is located.If the plans are approved by the Loma Linda planning commission on January 23, and then by the city council after that--which looks likely--the Fresh & Easy store would be the retail anchor for a 26,000 square foot shopping center at the location. The center, which would be built on a 2.6 acre lot that's been vacant for years, would also include other retail stores and a fast food restaurant, according to The Sun.
With it's rapid store development plan, Fresh & Easy has been renovating numerous previous empty retail buildings in Southern California for its 10,000 to 13,000 square foot grocery markets. Additionally, it plans to locate stores in a number of spots, like the Loma Linda location, that are looking to be developed by builders and need a retail anchor tenant.
There appears to be widespread support among members of the city's planning commission and city council (including the city's mayor) for Fresh & Easy to locate a store in the currently vacant site.
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This store is still sitting completed, but empty!
I have been driving by this location regularly for months in the hopes that one day it would indeed be open. Alas, it is still vacant. How sad. Loma Linda fits Fresh & Easy's demographic perfectly (middle to upper-middle class, hospital, religious and university communities that care about fresh, healthy and hip foods/stores) - more so than several of the other towns in which stores are being open.
This store is empty because they could not get a liquor license by the city of Loma Linda. Fresh and easy abandoned the store because it felt it could make enough money without the liquor sells. that's sad.
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