Crews works on getting a new King Soopers, at 20th St. and Chestnut Pl., ready for its opening in August, July 31, 2015. The, long-awaited grocery store, will serve the downtown community. (RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post)
Re: “LoDo Soopers doesn’t fit,” Aug. 17 letters to the editor.
I was stunned to read the letter from J. Dean Goldstein criticizing the new King Soopers in Denver’s LoDo neighborhood for a variety of alleged design flaws.
After living in LoDo for more than 20 years and watching a variety of small markets open and then fail for lack of a full line of products and services, I am thrilled to have the store in our neighborhood. Here are the “design issues” I love: I can walk, I can drive, I can park, I can find everything I need, including the cool Sushi Train that runs near the in-store Starbucks.
Instead of picking nits, letap give a big thanks to King Soopers for taking the risk of opening in LoDo. I have a hunch the number of people finding no design flaws at all will far outweigh the one who did.
Jerry J. Arca, Denver
This letter was published in the Aug. 19 edition.Shame on King Soopers for having the temerity to provide convenient parking for its customers, thus helping the traffic problem downtown. After all, there is an abundance of free parking available in LoDo, right? Now pedestrians will have to walk a few extra steps to enter the store, rather than traveling a few miles to the next closest food market.
Oh well, maybe Whole Foods will consult with urban retail designer J. Dean Goldstein before they proceed too far with their plans.
I was hoping for a hitching post and water trough for those occasions when I travel in from the “suburbs” on my buggy to sell my finely crafted flower pots to those urban condo-dwellers fortunate enough to have outside balconies, far above the madding crowd.
Norm Wayland, Parker
This letter was published in the Aug. 19 edition.
