9 Comments

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   tj & the bear on February 2, 2010 at 10:18 pm

   Ohhhhh… you know, sumthin

   LMAO!!!

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   CA renter on February 3, 2010 at 12:10 am

   Believe it or not, I think those Encinitas condos over Whole Foods will sell rather easily. That’s a great part of town for something like that, and the people who are attracted to residential-over-commercial will love having a grocery store there (instead of the usual retail which doesn’t do the residents any good).

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   alles_klar on February 3, 2010 at 12:57 am

   I heard the condos on the north west corner of Encinitas and the PCH didn’t sell too well, and they have a better location in my opinion than the ones above Whole Foods. It will be interesting to see what pricing they come out with.

   There’s going to be a lot of noise in the Whole Food condos too. Trains on one side and motorcycles cruising along PCH on the other side. Also going to have a lot of noise coming from downstairs with grocery store unloading and customers going in and out. Don’t count on sleeping in on the weekends.

   I wonder if this Whole Foods is going to have a big bakery and deli like the one in UTC? Could emit a lot of smells upstairs.

   Don’t get me wrong, I am looking forward to being able to finally walk to a grocery store. I just question the idea of having condos above a big grocery store and boardering a railroad track.

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   François Caron on February 3, 2010 at 8:11 am

   A building with… “love handles?”

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   UCGal on February 3, 2010 at 8:24 am

   I’m with alles klar. The sound of the trucks backing up to the loading docks (beep beep beep beep) every morning at 5am will get old, really quick.

   My sister lives a block from a Henries – and if the windows are open, you can definitely hear the trucks backing up to the dock. If you lived right above… Oye!

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   Leucadia on February 3, 2010 at 12:44 pm

   I’m excited about whole foods!

   Also Encinitas smog test…the owner is a great guy. He is actually an award winning flower grower specializng in irises. He is a fine neighbor for anyone to have 🙂

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   Blissful Ignoramus on February 3, 2010 at 7:58 pm

   Lavandula is the Latin name for lavender, the plant. They could have called the street “Lavender,” I suppose, but that has a separate connotation that they probably didn’t want to go with.

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   KevinC on February 4, 2010 at 12:01 pm

   I didn’t even know Encinitas had a downtown. Where are the condos above the Whole Foods? I’ve always drempt of living above WF!

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   Memphis on February 4, 2010 at 10:09 pm

   I live in Seattle and that Whole Paycheck store bought a piece of property, tore down a business that had been there for decades, dug a huge frigin hole in the ground and then walked away from it. That was 4 years ago and the hole is STILL there. This is Seattle not Harrisburg PA. I hope they bleed dry in that store they are building in CA now.