{"id":228012,"date":"2015-03-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/the-search-is-on-for-new-allied-gardens-grocery\/"},"modified":"2015-03-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T07:00:00","slug":"the-search-is-on-for-new-allied-gardens-grocery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/the-search-is-on-for-new-allied-gardens-grocery\/","title":{"rendered":"The search is on for new Allied Gardens grocery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Por Doug Curlee | Editor en general<\/p>\n

Allied Gardens\u2019 only grocery store closed last month after 60 years of service under various names, lastly Albertsons. There have been any number of guesses why that happened.<\/p>\n

One rumor that seems to be enjoying more lives than a cat is that the owner of the shopping center plans to eventually tear down the whole thing and build condos and apartments in its place.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbsolutely insane!\u201d was the reaction of Linda Lasher, the onsite property manager for owner Mark Kelton.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot at all. There has never been any thought about that kind of thing,\u201d she continued. \u201cThere are a number of companies we are in serious talks with to come in and provide the goods and services needed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The site of the recently closed Albertsons In Allied Gardens (Photo by David Mannis)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lasher won\u2019t name any of them, of course, and she can\u2019t without jeopardizing any deal, but she assures there will be something there for Allied Gardens, sooner or later.<\/p>\n

There has been a lot of curiosity about exactly why Albertsons LLC, which owned the now-closed store, decided the store was \u201cnot performing to expectations,\u201d and many of them are only wild guesses without any basis in fact.<\/p>\n

One thought that es<\/em> worth thinking about is this: The Albertsons that closed was obviously a union shop. It may be that it just couldn\u2019t support the heavier kind of payroll needed to make a store there pencil out. Would it be easier to open and stay open as a non-union store, with the consequent lower payroll a non-union store would be likely to carry? It\u2019s very possible.<\/p>\n

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A look inside the Allied Gardens Albertsons shortly before its closing (Photo by Jeremy Ogul)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The store closing hasn\u2019t seemed to have the effect on the rest of the shopping center\u2019s businesses that it might elsewhere. Only a couple of the businesses there conform to what we think of as commercial operations, such as Par Grocery & Liquor next door.<\/p>\n

Michael Putrus at Par said the store might have seen a small increase in business as a result of the Albertsons closure \u2014 depending on the day.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou never know what it\u2019s gonna be like from day to day. Yeah, we\u2019d probably like to see another store there, but I don\u2019t know,\u201d Putrus said. \u201cI\u2019ve heard talk about Trader Joe\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n

Loretta Hernandez at the UPS store in the same center said things are not much different now that Albertsons is gone.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere may not be as many people around, but we really don\u2019t notice, because our business is the kind where people come here especially for us, and not as part of a shopping day,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s true of most of the center\u2019s businesses. In fact, the day we were there, the vast majority of what cars were in the lot were pretty much centered around one business: Pal Joey\u2019s Bar and Lounge.<\/p>\n

\u2014Contact Doug Curlee at <\/em>doug@sdcnn.com<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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