We featured the grand opening of the new Arterro homes in SE Carlsbad – here are details about the rest of the development from the LCTS website:
The retail project will include a Vons Lifestyle grocery store, 24 Hour Fitness, Petco, Stein Mart, and other soft-good apparel and drugstore tenants. The project site is designed to allow for a gas station with car wash at the main entrance off Rancho Santa Fe Road, retail space, restaurant space and financial pads for banks.
Local residents had something to say about it on Facebook, which lit up like a Christmas tree with over 100 comments. A few samples:
1. Those stores surprise me it’s such a classy area I thought it was going to be more like the Forum.
2. I thought it was supposed to be upscale like Del Mar Heights.
3. OMG – that sucks. They blew it. Look how successful the Forum was. We need upscale.
4. Don’t forget the gas station and car wash…it’s gonna be lovely. Not. Imagine the traffic.
5. We have no one to blame for the lack of movie theater but our neighbors. During the public input phase of the development people bitched about NOT wanting a movie theater. Well, instead you get a Steinmart. What the heck is Steinmart anyway?
6. Everyone here should contact the developer and let them know what you were expecting and how disappointed you are! You start out nice and then if no response, the wrath of the La Costa Moms!!
7. I at least hope they put in a local restaurant/bar!! Maybe steinmart will look better with beer glasses on!
8. Jeremy wants this: http://www.steinmart.com/alan-flusser…/cat-25-catid-101…
9. I had to look up Stein Mart to find out what it was…I clicked on “Ladies”…this was the second item of clothing on the 1st page. We’re in trouble ladies.
10. Snazzy is the only word that comes to mind. They have an entire section devoted to velour http://www.steinmart.com/ladies/velour/cat-25-catid-20040
11. That will be a total bummer, I was expecting good food, a movie theater and good clothing shops. Especially since SEH has produced NOTHING!! Shoot was really looking forward to it:((((
12. I grew up with a Steinmart – It’s very much like a Marshalls (but cheaper).
The main website does have a public-outreach section for those who want to express their views on the LCTS project:
http://lacostatownsq.com/public-outreach/tell-us-what-you-think/
Uh, I guess I am missing something but the whole thing is being developed by Safeway. Safeway, duh, is not exactly Caruso Affiliated. The whole thing is to anchor a nice Vons.
So maybe I’m missing something – but this was never going to be more than a nice grocery store strip mall. Like every other Vons + gas station in the county. I’m not missing the secret grocery store hidden in the Forum because it’s not there!
Maybe someone can point me to the upscale boutique w/ Vons or Ralphs somewhere around here – I can’t think of a single instance. And to be honest – I bet the Steinmart does great. The forum, everyone, is only a few miles away.
If you look at the more established homes in La Costa Oaks on Circulo Sequoia nearby the power lines, they never sell for over $1M. These Arterro homes are not only as close to the power lines, but have smaller lots, one neighborhood entrance off soon to be more congested La Costa Ave, and RSF road and mall views and noise. Sure they look nice on the inside, everything new always does. Just don’t overlook the location.
Steinmart!?!? I didn’t know those existed west of the Mississippi!! Well, that does make sense. After you have spent 1.5+ million on your new house you will need to save some money for awhile.
Pavilions is the upscale version of Vons; I’m surprised that one of those is not going in the mall.
“12. I grew up with a Steinmart – It’s very much like a Marshalls (but cheaper)”…….not exactly a ringing endorsement. However, the Marshalls in La Jolla does carry some good, high end clothing that can’t be found at other Marshalls. Needless to say, I will not be driving from NE Carlsbad to check this place out.
After less than a day of deliberations, a jury on Tuesday convicted a Garden Grove real estate agent of shooting two people in order to steal a Lexus, an execution-style double murder that could bring him the death penalty.
Prosecutors said Hilbert Thomas, now 42, entered Golden Sun Homes in Stanton in early February 2009, forced two employees to their knees, and shot them in the head.
The victims were secretary Elizabeth Ann Palmer, 49, of Fountain Valley, and Matthew F. Scott, 42, of Anaheim, a salesman at the mobile home sales company. Prosecutors said Thomas had just been hired by a real estate firm in Lakewood and was frustrated that he didn’t have a nice car to drive customers around in.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-oc-lexus-slaying-20140211,0,6471992.story#ixzz2t7wCez1I
Isn’t your car getting a little old, JtR?? And I’m not talking about the Chevy.
See this is why I drive a piece of junk car no one wants,
I mean really who knew RE was so dangerous ?
But I am disappointed they did not put a 99 cent only store in there, that would have been convenient.
While in the Arterro models on Saturday I overhead some people talking, who I assumed who owners in La Costa Oaks coming over to take a peek at the new homes. I heard them talking about the new Town Center and they expressed their disappointment in the stores slated for move in (specifically Stein Mart! and the Petco which is already next to Sprouts).
I’m kind of bummed, a theater would have been nice. We only have Cinepolis (which is awesome but $$, not something I would want to regularly take the whole family to). The next closest theater is in San Marcos.
And I’ve never been to a Stein Mart in my life. By the looks of the pants not sure I ever will 🙂
Would be great if one of the restaurant was a sushi place. And maybe a good burger joint too (NOT Burger King!!) since the Counter in the Forum closed.