Here's the New Whole Foods Rendering
After we broke the news yesterday of Whole Foods’ decision to go ahead with plans to build on a contaminated lot in Gowanus, Crain’s followed up half an hour later with a story of its own. And while neglecting to give our post a hat-tip, the business paper did come up with some interesting original…
After we broke the news yesterday of Whole Foods’ decision to go ahead with plans to build on a contaminated lot in Gowanus, Crain’s followed up half an hour later with a story of its own. And while neglecting to give our post a hat-tip, the business paper did come up with some interesting original content: This rendering. Neato.
Don’t see what the big deal is. No-one is compelled to work at Wal-Mart, no-one is compelled to shop there.
People do work & shop there as a result of their own free choices, which is as it should be.
“ew who wants that? and become another bococa?!”
What are you even talking about? Bococa is only a name someone made up. The neighborhood has always been there as is.
Anything built on that empty wasteland is going to be an improvement, or the city could have just cleaned it up and planted trees and grass and made it look natural….but I kow, heaven forbid a freaking building isn’t built on every single morsel of land…..
I think though they should just get tear down that freaking old run down building on the corner of 3rd and 3rd already.
It is one thing to preserve history, but it is a crappy little building that serves no purpose but to stand there in a total state of dis repair
DIBS – you should love Wal-Mart. They are gangsta anti-union.
Wal-Mart won’t come to Brooklyn for one simple reason:
UNIONS.
Wal-Mart is like Kryptonite to the union bosses,
they would shrivel up on choke on their prime rib if they heard of a Wal-Mart setting up shop and they couldn’t get a piece of the action.
New York is a union state like California and the politicians that give the ok’s for large projects like this are beholden to union money.
If you don’t believe me just look up the campaign contributions to your local Assembly person or State Senator.
There’s a big brew-ha-ha in Chicago over Walmarts now. The union that represents retail workers has got the city council in their grip somehow and if Walmart doesn’t meet the wage demands, they will only be able to open 2 stores instead of 6-7….yet the only losers will be the shoppers and of course the thousands who would otherwise be employed by the 4-5 stores that won’t open under the “rules.”
-If Wal-Mart were to announce an opening in Brooklyn, with “x” number of jobs, there would be 5*x number of people aplying for those jobs.
-It would quickly become one of the top-selling Wal-Marts in the country.
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I agree, no question.
um, biff walmart doesnt set the minimum wage. the government does. you have to blame the government for that one.
*rob*
Biff – “hen you consider how underpaid Walmart employees are, the lack of health benefits available to them and their families, the amount of money taxpayers are forced to pay to subsidize the wages and health care, the relative lack of money put back into the community and to charity by Walmart, etc”
as compared to WHO? Target, Lowes, Mom and Pop?
Those points are all but meaningless unless you compare Walmart to other retailers