Ken’s Market expansion approved

October 6th, 2008 · 3 Comments

The Department of Planning and Development has approved the controversial expansion of Ken’s Market on Greenwood Ave.

To make way for the expansion, Ken’s did not renew the lease for several stores including Allusia, Greenwood Bakery and Couth Buzzard bookstore.

Clark Design Group has designed the larger market. The plans call for Ken’s to expand into the 5,601 square feet of space that was occupied by the shops and add another 364 square feet onto the first floor of the building. A second floor will also be added for office space. According to the written decision, a “high volume of public comment [was] received regarding this project,” especially regarding traffic and parking. After hearing public comment and an environmental review, the department approved the expansion plans.

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3 responses so far ↓

1 biff // Oct 7, 2008 at 11:27 am

what exactly was the controversy? that the public didn’t have the right to assume a legal document between two parties?
2 Trapper Graves-Lalor // Oct 8, 2008 at 10:47 pm

The controversy, at least in part, stemmed from the amount of traffic congestion and residential parking problems a larger Ken’s will cause. Though the city admitted both, they didn’t feel that it was sufficient to change anything.
3 Carolyn // Oct 11, 2008 at 11:47 am

Ken’s Market representatives are claiming that there will not be any increased vehicle traffic because the space into which they are expanding is already retail space. But we all know that if they are going to be as big as the sketch would seem, the idea is that customers will do all their grocery shopping there and I don’t know too many people who are willing to carry home 6 bags of groceries on foot or bike. The other “controversy” is that Ken’s owns the parking lot and chinese restaurant across the street to the north. What is to stop them, once their expansion is complete, from turning that whole space into a giant parking lot, further encouraging vehicle traffic?