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Would you like Whole Foods Market to come to Columbia Heights? You can join our campaign to bring Whole Foods Market to the DC USA retail complex! The best way for you to voice your support for Whole Foods is to email Karen Riley at karen.riley@wholefoods.com. Karen Riley is the real estate coordinator for Whole Foods Market. She can demonstrate the level of our support directly to the Whole Foods team working on the negotiations. Please be as descriptive as you can in your emails. Please also cc or bcc your emails to Ms. Riley to us at info@columbiaheightsnews.org. We need to keep a running tally of how many messages have been sent to Whole Foods Market so we can gage how much more work we need to do. The more people who can email Whole Foods Market the more powerful our collective voices will be! It looks like we are facing an uphill battle but as a community we can make a difference! Please spread the word!

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Whole Foods Update From Grid Properties

Written by Columbia Heights News

Sunday, 19 March 2006

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Bring Whole Foods to DC USA We had a chance to speak with with Drew Greenwald, President of Grid Properties, this past Friday and received some updates on the Whole Foods negotiations. Grid Properties is the lead developer of the DC USA retail project. Mr. Greenwald told us that the negotiations are ongoing. The major hold up continues to be the inability to provide dedicated parking at the DC USA for Whole Foods employees and customers. The Chairman and CEO of Whole Foods Market, John Mackey, has not granted final approval because of this reason. Mr. Greenwald suggests that we begin directing our email campaign to Chairman Mackey.

Grid Properties considers Whole Foods Market to be a very important potential tenant and is continuing to expend a lot of energy to bring it to DC USA. Reserving parking spaces at DC USA for particular tenants will not be possible because the entire parking facility will be publicly owned and operated. Because of the way parking will be financed, IRS imposes restrictions on not allowing parking to be open to everyone. For more information about this matter, please read one of our past postings, Parking at DC USA.

Mr. Greenwald is convinced that parking will not be an issue for Whole Foods Market should it decide to open a location in the 53,000 sq. ft. space set aside for it. There will be 1,000 parking spaces at DC USA which should be more than sufficient for all the customers and employees of DC USA. Mr. Greenwald mentioned that the peak hours that people shop for groceries do not necessarily coincide with the peak shopping hours for the other retailers that will be coming to the DC USA. This will further ensure that driving customers of Whole Foods will easily be able to find parking.

Email the Chairman of Whole Foods Market

Mr. Greenwald said that his team at Grid Properties has managed to convince almost everyone at Whole Foods Market, including the president of operations for this region, that DC USA would be an excellent potential location with or without parking. However, Whole Foods Chairman John Mackey still has not provided the final go ahead.

At this point in our campaign, we feel that the greatest impact can be achieved by writing to Chairman John Mackey directly. If you are in support of bringing Whole Foods Market to the DC USA, please email Chairman Mackey at . We strongly recommend that you copy (cc) Karen Riley ( ), the Real Estate Coordinator for Whole Foods, on the message you send to Chairman Mackey. Please be as descriptive as you can as to why you support a Whole Foods Market location in Columbia Heights. It's important that you explain why parking will not be an issue for you.

As before, we urge you to copy us (cc or bcc) on the message you send to Whole Foods Market at so that we can keep count of the messages and report the latest number to you. We would also like to make periodic compilations of all the emails sent and provide it to Grid Properties. Mr. Greenwald told us that his team can include the messages in their marketing reports and presentations to Whole Foods Market. He told us that our campaign is making a positive impact and that he appreciated our efforts. Again, we ask that you help spread the word.

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Written by on 2006-10-27 22:41:04

The new Trader Joes in Foggy Bottom has an underground lot with free parking - I would not at all be surprised if they had the same parking demands.

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