VONS at Durango and Desert Inn in Las Vegas closing
Posted: October 24th, 2023, 9:48 pm
Early November closure, “operational efficiencies” stated as the reason.
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Oh... initially I had the wrong store.
Looking at the map it seems that this store is about a mile north of an Albertsons (with a Colorful Lifestyle interior) and about 2 miles away from another Albertsons (with the LLC decor). Albertsons / Safeway have been slowly closing these "overlapping" stores post merger and I doubt this has much to do with the Kroger merger.
There was a clone of this store in the Denver exurbs that you have pictures of (I think Castle Pines)?storewanderer wrote: ↑October 25th, 2023, 11:11 pm It is a mint condition pre-lifestyle interior store. Open ceilings. Spacious departments. A really nice store.
Castle Pines and also in Aurora there was one of these too. Both closed. Neither received lifestyle remodels. Castle Pines reopened to administer COVID Vaccines but the store itself did not reopen.retailfanmitchell019 wrote: ↑October 27th, 2023, 11:56 pmThere was a clone of this store in the Denver exurbs that you have pictures of (I think Castle Pines)?storewanderer wrote: ↑October 25th, 2023, 11:11 pm It is a mint condition pre-lifestyle interior store. Open ceilings. Spacious departments. A really nice store.
Sad that another early-2000s museum piece is going away…
If you go to Irvine, CA, there is still an Albertsons museum piece with the Jewel interior. Sand Canyon exit off the 405.
Murrieta is a clone of this, but with zero maintenance. They painted all the walls primer white and all the graphics are so faded they look like a sepia filter. The letters on the Vons sign are all different colors and still have the outdated Food Drug letters below too. It is across the street from a modern new Albertsons similar to the new North Las Vegas store that got Pavilions interior, except that it has Colorful Lifestyle. They somehow got away with keeping both stores during the merger because they're in different zip codes even though you can throw a rock from the Vons gas station and hit the Albertsons.retailfanmitchell019 wrote: ↑October 27th, 2023, 11:56 pmThere was a clone of this store in the Denver exurbs that you have pictures of (I think Castle Pines)?storewanderer wrote: ↑October 25th, 2023, 11:11 pm It is a mint condition pre-lifestyle interior store. Open ceilings. Spacious departments. A really nice store.
Sad that another early-2000s museum piece is going away…
If you go to Irvine, CA, there is still an Albertsons museum piece with the Jewel interior. Sand Canyon exit off the 405.
That's the closest Vons or Albertsons to me, and the reason I've defaulted to Ralphs at Chapman & Euclid for the past 11 years of living here... The store has generally been well stocked and clean; but the main detractor is the very small size of the store, which limits its selection severely for a grocery store serving this area. Since there's no significance to note of this store historically, they could probably do well to build a new, larger store nearby. Harbor Blvd between Chapman and Lampson has a large parcel (in green) that could fit the bill. The parcel size is honestly not much different than the current one (in red), but without the added baggage of the rest of the strip mall, they could have a grocery store with a larger footprint.ClownLoach wrote: ↑October 29th, 2023, 5:41 pm Now that the infamous Haster Vons in Garden Grove near Disneyland got a real remodel to colorful lifestyle (that was the store with cardboard posters for signage)
That property on Harbor was intended for hotel development. If I recall correctly the city used Eminent Domain to acquire it. They were going to acquire the Target and demolish it as well before coming to their senses. The reason that Target sat so long without a proper remodel until a few years ago was because it was in limbo. Platinum Triangle was supposed to get a grocery store, but the fact is it was supposed to get a lot of other features and be completely built to now when it's still decades away from completion.submariner wrote: ↑October 31st, 2023, 8:12 amThat's the closest Vons or Albertsons to me, and the reason I've defaulted to Ralphs at Chapman & Euclid for the past 11 years of living here... The store has generally been well stocked and clean; but the main detractor is the very small size of the store, which limits its selection severely for a grocery store serving this area. Since there's no significance to note of this store historically, they could probably do well to build a new, larger store nearby. Harbor Blvd between Chapman and Lampson has a large parcel (in green) that could fit the bill. The parcel size is honestly not much different than the current one (in red), but without the added baggage of the rest of the strip mall, they could have a grocery store with a larger footprint.ClownLoach wrote: ↑October 29th, 2023, 5:41 pm Now that the infamous Haster Vons in Garden Grove near Disneyland got a real remodel to colorful lifestyle (that was the store with cardboard posters for signage)
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Alternately, they could look at parcels currently available near Angel stadium, (although that itself could be a political minefield thanks to that asshat Moreno) which offer opportunities for a larger store and would be walking distance to the myriad of new apartments in the Platinum Triangle area (though at a disadvantage to the communities served by the current location on the other side of the 5 freeway).
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