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I dunno. With luck, maybe the same people (and banks) hoarding cash and buying next-to-no yield Treasury notes?

Spectacular! A modern treasure! This should be a museum! Sorry to gush! Wow!

@GoneGreen: Hold on a minute! Though Peet’s and Noah’s attract a ragtag clientele, I think most will want to give Fresh & Easy a chance to fit into the neighborhood before rushing to judgment. If the new store lives up to its name without heaping on the junk foods and creating piles of plastic packaging, they have a good chance of succeeding.

In response to the original posting: Wild Oats had a colorful variety of products. That quirkiness disappeared when Whole Foods took over and shut stores like the one on California and Lake. Long-time residents still wax nostalgic about the prior tenant, Jurgensen’s grocery. But as far as I can tell, the building itself is not particularly distinguished.

Edward (Fresh & Easy)

Not writing it off without having been. All it takes is a few minutes with their food — which I have bought and eaten despite having read the labels — and my point is that the products they sell are, in fact, massively processed in a way that a Peet’s-type consumer will notice.

My point is that in their self-comparison to TJ they show that they have vastly misunderstood that store and its demographic; my prediction is that Pete’s habitues will try it, and stay away in droves as word spreads, to borrow the cliche, even though it is on the same corner as that coffee store. Just as the Peet’s customer will deliberately avoid the adjacent Starbucks, they will carry their reusable bags down to TJs and back rather than ever shop at Fresh & Easy after the first time.

Again my point is that the Fresh & Easy management crowd have misjudged their product, misjudged the demographic of that site, and largely misunderstood the market. Which, I predict, will see them closed at that spot within about a year of opening and abandoning US operations within two years.

CUT & PASTE: Yep, sorry; tried to move a ’graph and just ****wed a ’graph instead.

<<Honestly, many of the stores that are in Americana (Custo, Kitson, Calvin Klein, etc.) should have opened up in Pasadena instead>>

Probably not. Pasadena rarely supports extravagant "elegance." Quality, yes. Expensive, yes. Even very expensive. But expensive for the sake of expensive just to prove you can afford it? Not so much.

Thank you for mentioning this tragic situation where a woman was run down by a DASH bus. I don’t think it’s much of an argument. No sentient being would dispute that downtown needs to be made more pedestrian-friendly.

While we’re at it, let’s put a boot on every car in the state until the owner pays $200k for a personal EIR to mitigate pollution and waste caused by the car.

Whole Foods? Try again, Downtown. The lackluster showing in their giant new store on Arroyo in Pasadena has probably convinced Whole Foods’ corporate office that folks east of Fairfax don’t know what to do with arugula. (That notion is completely wrong, though; we just have outstanding farmers’ markets and other alternatives.)

It’s shameful that Californians haven’t come up with a way to integrate historic structures like this one into our public spaces. I think the Blanco Adobe should be opened for tours and maintained. An added touch might be a garden surrounding it filled with native plants, rather than a fence.

Why not put the swimming pool elsewhere; I bet my San Marino estate (yeah right) none of our great-great-grandchildren will be talking about preserving the pool! Putting this 163-year old adobe on a truck to Blythe or smashing it and making a replica on cheaper land sound like really dumb ideas.

@guest (#5) wins the award for stupidest ad hominem attack ever! Instead of posting anonymously, why don’t you sign in, so the rest of us can see what other pearls of wisdom you have to contribute. If that’s typical of your comments, I can’t see any value at all in your contributions.

As for a competition including both neighborhoods and towns, it makes sense to me. Aside from being part of Los Angeles, the neighborhoods of Sylmar and Pacific Palisades, for instance, have almost nothing in common.

Umm, on to a slightly different topic… I lived near the new cathedral in Oakland and watched it go up. It is a thoughtful, architecturally significant place that fits well in the Lake Merritt neighborhood. I have mixed feelings reading that the New York Times has discovered the charms of the area.

This cathedral is a big change for the better. San Francisco and Los Angeles Roman Catholics both blundered with big, cold cathedrals that don’t engage the surroundings.

One thing I don’t get: what do Roman Catholics have against historic preservation? The old earthquake argument was the justification for replacing new cathedrals in Los Angeles as well as Oakland, but there has also been a concerted effort to get rid of nineteenth-century churches throughout the country. One almost suspects the Roman Catholic leadership of trying to run away from its past. Hmm… maybe with good reason.