Chronicle: British grocer Fresh & Easy headed to Bay Area
— by Jeffrey Wisniewski — 19 August 2010 — Comments Off
The San Francisco Chronicle reports this morning about the British invasion of Fresh & Easy grocery stores in the Bay Area, including a list of seven opening in 2011. Notably absent from the list is the proposed location in Hercules (originally scheduled to open in 2012) — the planned anchor tenant of Market Town, the first phase of the New Town Center project (and current site of interim Market Hall).
The developer of the project — Red Barn Co. — has recently pleaded its case to the City Council, promising that it has no intention of pulling out from the project despite the poor economic conditions that threaten the project’s indefinite delay.