Park Slope Neighbors has initiated a campaign asking Whole Foods to
make several alterations to the design for the market it plans to open
next year at the corner of 3rd Avenue and 3rd Street.
Whole
Foods, which has garnered acclaim for its commitment to organic and
natural food products, excellent employment practices and all-around
good corporate citizenship, plans to build a 64,000-square-foot store
along the Gowanus Canal, its first in Brooklyn.
PSN,
while welcoming Whole Foods to the neighborhood, is asking the company
to alter some aspects of its design. The requests include:
- A reduction in the number of parking spaces by at least 100 from the currently planned 420
- The elimination of the rooftop parking lot in favor of a green roof or solar panels
- The
implementation of a comprehensive transportation-management plan,
including jitney service to mass-transit connection points, free van
service home for customers, and ample bicycle parking
Apologies in advance for my snark.
Why can’t the well-meaning make their points know at the “point of inflection” that will actually work? Like the community board or planning commission, for a green roof??
Re: free van service– why not instead of asking for an unlikely freebie, ask for a “dollar van” staging area (worth, say, three or four parking spaces) convenient to the WF exit?? Or will a dollar van be too expensive for people paying $15 a pound for salmon?
There are better ways of getting organic foods in Brooklyn than this store.
Problem is, this store is being built for the shoppers farther out on the islands.
Whole Foods could careless about our local concerns! They are out to make money, what else matters? Clean food?