Comments on: Trouble for Cleveland Park’s Proposed Farmers Market

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 21:31:17 +0000

There were people on the listserv who complained about the Chipotle when it was announced precisely because it was too similar to Cal Tort and Alero. Seriously.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:40:08 +0000

Do they really need the ANC’s blessing to proceed? Maybe they need to go above these shortsighted NIMBYs and talk to DC Council.

By: kate

kate — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:33:16 +0000

As a Cleveland Park resident, this is ridiculous. Besides Afzal, other ANC members have cited Brookville as the main reason for blocking the farmer’s market. I’m not sure if we’re shopping at the same Brookville, but the supermarket has horrible customer service and often sells expired food. Their produce section is abysmal and fruit bought from there often goes bad the next day. Other neighborhoods have grocery stores and farmers markets and both do quite well. Maybe a farmers market would stop people like myself and other Cleveland Park friends from taking our grocery shopping business to Whole Foods or farmers markets in other neighborhoods where we could get reliable produce.

Also, the ANC didn’t stop the FOUR nail salons or the THREE tex-mex places from opening citing fears of competition. This is ridiculous.

By: dcd

dcd — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:14:58 +0000

Those are all reasons that you think protecting Brookville is a good idea. But to deny that her motivation here is largely to protect Brookville is just silly, and contradicted by what she said.

By: dgf

dgf — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 23:58:37 +0000

Maybe about 3-4 years ago, Cleveland Park blocked Trader Joe’s application based on the store requiring deliveries 7 days a week. I called bluff on it then, (I used to work for the company), but in this light, it sure seems like some other elements were at play.

As others have said, how could the farmers market not help the CP community as a whole by bringing in more foot traffic? You buy your produce at the farmers market, and then pick up your other necessities at yes and brookville? If Brookville knows produce sales will slump in advance they can scale back and buff up some other areas in the market. After all, it wasn’t that long ago when Brookville, Magruders and Yes all existed there!

By: theheights

theheights — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:32:14 +0000

I see it regularly. If someone thinks that Cleveland Park’s retail is half empty, then Cleveland Park, and probably much of DC must be very new to him.

By: you don't know how to shop

you don't know how to shop — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:04:09 +0000

Yes Organic doesn’t carry fresh, organic produce? What on earth are you talking about? That’s their specialty. LOL.

By: Resident

Resident — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:55:55 +0000

Time to boycott Brookville. This will teach them a lesson. Nowhere else have I seen such a crazy excuse to prevent a business from setting up shop. This is clearly an unfair practice. If I were the manager of the farmer’s market, I would file a law suit against the ANC immediately.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:45:10 +0000

There is nothing new about Cleveland Park. Have you seen it recently?

By: victoria

victoria — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:12:36 +0000

Because Brookville pays lots and lots of taxes to be where they are. The farmers market could rent half the parking lot in that shopping center across the street if they think it would be profitable. Or they could negotiate space in one of the vast parking lots of nearby apartment buildings. Lots of options.

Because 2 metro stops away is Dupont Circle farmers market. And because Brookville actually has nice produce. I don’t know where it comes from – but the whole locavore thing has gone nutty anyway. You are all destroying much more of the world by using a smartphone (rare earth minerals etc.) than by buying acorn squash from a non-local source.