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Wow, over 12 years of bureaucracy so far just to rebuild an old store.

If I were Safeway I would just cancel everything, and keep the old store. Not worth the trouble.

Hmmm... So $89.228.75 a month rent? That is a lot of money unless the location is really good (such as not having competition or in a very wealthy neighborhood - neither which applies to this location). Sounds like the operating costs combined with low volume (my guess as Texas has become very comp...

http://www.loopnet.com/property/16181645/9503-Jones-Rd/

This wasn't even a small store. Over 70,000 SF according to that posting.

Really strange.

Here are the pictures. http://www.mikerichardson.name/tidbits/randalls/ This news story also appeared recently: http://impactnews.com/northwest-houston/335-recent-news/6784-randalls-closes-in-jones-road-shopping-center It leaves more questions than answers. If another grocery store really is interes...

A single Randalls store began a surprise store closing sale on Thursday - 50% off the entire store . The store is on 9503 Jones Rd. in Houston. By Saturday, the store was literally empty. They will probably be closed starting today. Why would a store close down so quickly? I was in there last Saturd...