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[beyonce245]

I think a Panera's or Moe's type of fast casual restaurant would work nicely there.  Surely it won't take too long to lease out, especially with pretty good street frontage in an established shopping center.

[suburban george3]

beyonce245, on 17 December 2009 - 11:29 PM, said:

I think a Panera's or Moe's type of fast casual restaurant would work nicely there.  Surely it won't take too long to lease out, especially with pretty good street frontage in an established shopping center.

Not sure what would fit.  Moe's is already in Thruway and Panera's around the corner (kinda) at Cloverdale Shopping Center...

[winston's finest]

this space is kind of far from the other retail for it to be a clothing store but due to its mere size and the great frontage it could be a cool place for J.Crew. I think the Thruway consumer base would really love and appreciate the store and J.Crew's popular name would be enough to bring in the shoppers. It could be really spacious or the space could divide up into 2 or 3 spots.
If it is divided up it would also be perfect to include an Apple store here. Everybody shopping in the center and going down Stratford would be able to see it and easily access the store.

[twincity]

Plow & Hearth will occupy a portion of the former BB&B space.

[twincity]

Im posting this here since talk of a grocery chain, new to the Triad market could be coming to the old Borders space.  Thats coming from a WSTB user.

from facebook on W-S Trader Joes page:

According to an employee at the Chapel Hill TJ's, it was in the company newsletter that due to the opposition in GSO, TJ's WILL be coming to Winston. He didn't know where, and I'm getting this third hand (newsletter --> employee --> me), but he ASSURED me that's the case.

Just a rumor for now,  Jon Lowder was the first to hear W-S TJ news back in January, then WSTB, and now this facebook user.

[cityboi]

twincity, on 01 March 2012 - 09:43 AM, said:

Im posting this here since talk of a grocery chain, new to the Triad market could be coming to the old Borders space.  Thats coming from a WSTB user.

from facebook on W-S Trader Joes page:

According to an employee at the Chapel Hill TJ's, it was in the company newsletter that due to the opposition in GSO, TJ's WILL be coming to Winston. He didn't know where, and I'm getting this third hand (newsletter --> employee --> me), but he ASSURED me that's the case.

Just a rumor for now,  Jon Lowder was the first to hear W-S TJ news back in January, then WSTB, and now this facebook user.

I don't think there are any plans at the moment for Trader Joe's to abandon Greensboro. Apparently there are some NIMBYs in Greensboro who don't want more retail development in their neighborhood and they certainly don't want to see homes demolished and land re-zoned from residential to commercial. I've heard rumors that if the developer looking to build a Trader Joe's in Greensboro fails at building on that site, there is another site near Friendly Center they are looking at. Obviously they prefer their first choice so publicly they want people to think this is the only site. Its also smart for some to spread misleading rumors that if they can't build on that site, they won't build in Greensboro at all. Its a good way to drum up vocal support to counter the 100 or so small vocal minority. The high end retailers and stores want to be at Friendly Center in the Greensboro market and so there are different factions against change. The nearby resident don't want to see more retail coming towards their neighborhood and I've heard that a few years back either Neiman Marcus or Saks Fifth Ave wanted to come to Friendly Center but Macy's and Belk lobbied against them. Similar to Harris Teeter wanting to be the only grocery store at Friendly but Whole Foods and Trader Joe's  found loop holes in the contract.

Edited by cityboi, 05 March 2012 - 09:41 AM.