Comments on: Balducci’s Really, Really NOT Coming To PQ, Really!

By: pqresident

pqresident — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:33:27 +0000

I would hope that we all embrace the holiday season and each other as downtown neighbors with common goals and interests. just as I'm happy to go to Busboys and Poets and the CityVista Safeway, I'm happy that MVTResident comes to our side of Mass Ave too. there's fun to be had on both sides...for example, a Buddha Bar (of New York, Paris, Dubai & so on fame) has signed to go in on the north side of Mass Ave and that'll be a nice feather in the cap for all of us. as for the "Balducci's" space, we're going to have to find another name for it. at this point, subdividing it may be for the greater good. as Mick Jagger crooned... you can't always get what you want but if you try sometimes you might find you get what you need.

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happy holidays...however you choose to celebrate it!

By: Freddie Mick

Freddie Mick — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:57:08 +0000

GalleryPlaceGal, you’re 100% correct. & I agree 100% with your earlier post about the Mt Vernon Triangle Safeway – it’s not that great a store, the prepared food is mediocre at best, & it is dangerous up there, despite the fact that 90% of the posters here refuse to face that fact.
We need a grocery in PQ, preferably in the spot that was set aside for an upscale grocery. I’d love to see a Trader Joe’s in that spot, but any upscale grocery offering prepared food for the thousands of people who work in PQ would make a mint.
I just re-read your posts, & I agree 100% with every word you wrote. Thank you for being so clear.

By: GalleryPlaceGal

GalleryPlaceGal — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:19:00 +0000

MVTResident. Sorry we are not one neighborhood. I live in Chinatown/PQ/Gallery Place. I don’t see you saying you live in Mt.Vernon/the Triangle/SHAW. You don’t pay expensive PQ morgages or rent. We are a distinct neighborhood and you have your own distinct neighborhood.
Please stop saying to PQ residents that we don’t need a Grocery in PQ. I don’t say to Mt.Vernon people you don’t need restaurants in MVT.

By: MVTResident

MVTResident — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:46:07 +0000

Hey — I wasn’t making an MVT vs. PQ comment. I totally love being part of the PQ neighborhood. I was trying to make the point that we spend as much time south of Mass as north of Mass. We’re one neighborhood as far as I’m concerned. Although we say we live in Penn Quarter, Chinatown, Downtown, the Triangle — we definitely have way too many names.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:19:11 +0000

MVTResident, sounds like you have it all over in your neighborhood. My only question is then why do you all say you too live in Penn Quarter when your condos go up for sale?

By: MVTResident

MVTResident — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:40:42 +0000

It’s okay Mike — I’ll meet you to work out, grocery shop and then have a coffee at BB&P. I can’t help it GalleryPlaceGal — I AM happy (but not smug) with the grocery store. And don’t worry about your safety. It is perfectly safe to walk down 5th Street at night. But walking from any part of PQ to the store takes only 5 minutes or 10 minutes max (it doesn’t take long for me to walk to the Farmers Market on Thursdays). It takes longer for most folks to drive their car somewhere in the suburbs. That being said, it would be nice to have higher end/gourmet grocer someday.

By: Anonymouse

Anonymouse — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:39:02 +0000

Trader Joes would be great and what about a YES Organic Market? Seems like they can operate in a smaller space.

By: Mike @ 555 Mass.

Mike @ 555 Mass. — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:18:54 +0000

I have to say that Gallery Place Gal sure does have a case of the grumpies! You are right. We have our own blogs. Way to be a neighbor.

By: GalleryPlaceGal

GalleryPlaceGal — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:35:20 +0000

Boycott all Balducci’s. Either they just like being courted and/or they are beyond indecisive.
As for whether or not we could use a grocery, of course we can. Safeway was never a grocery I favored. If Trader Joes or some other grocery came into my side of PQ, I would be overjoyed.
For those who enjoy going to Safeway and don’t think it’s to far to walk to for an item or two and feel safe there at night and actually enjoy their oversalted, sitting for a week prepared food that’s your business.
I am sick to death of the Mt. Vernon people who are so happy/smug with your grocery, (which by the way is usually empty). This is PQLiving, you have your own blogs.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:16:37 +0000

I am sure a PQ Balducci’s would only have the freshest of the fresh, tastiest of the tasty, and most expansive inventory of expansive inventories. I am just SURE of it!