WRONG! WE already have a full-sized grocery store: FOODIES! THey have everything I need and at fair prices. No need for Whole Paycheck in our neighborhood!

We have done 95% of our grocery shopping at Foodie's since we moved here four years ago, and with the exception of the prepared foods section they are actually more expensive than Whole Foods. I know this because once every few months I make a trip to the Whole Foods store at Symphony and I compare prices on lots of items. While I love Foodie's, its friendly staff and good selection of items including beer and wine, I have always thought they needed a little competition to bring their prices down. So I'm glad to have a Whole Foods coming in for that reason.

Foodie's is great for small ticket items and basics, but I would never say it was a full-sized grocery store. And as for the "Whole Paycheck"...have you ever compared how much you spend at Foodie's compared to a shopping trip at Whole Foods? I would say I'm excited that there is finally a large size grocery store with more than just my basic needs!

They are doing this to push out the low income residents out of the neighborhood, why would they add a Whole foods Market and more luxury condos, knowing they already have build enough in the South End on Harrison ave, Mass Ave and E,berkley street. They are doing this to add more the wealthy people in the area to puch out the poor and also get rid of the Pine Street Inn & Medival that has been in that community for so long. Yet the South End in the 80's 90's was fine the way it was, But now more they want add more into the community and the cost of living will be so high for everyone that most of the low income can't even afford to do grocery shopping but yet they are doing this, cause of the high end consumers cannot seem to see themselves inside of a Stop n Shop at the bayside mall. Let's be Real I would like to see how much jobs this will create for this community.

I just sent a comment in about Wegam's Rayleen

It's about time! Finally, not having to go to Fenway or Cambridge to get organic produce!!! Yippee...for Southie and South End residents!!!

Let's think about this for a second -- how is it pushing out low income residents or putting Foodie's out of business? It's not like they're replacing something that used to be something else. It was a desolate newspaper wasteland, no one is living there now and no local businesses are being replaced. Foodie's is still perfect as the local, quick supermarket of choice for most people living west of Peter's Park, so it needs to continue to cater toward those folks. And it provides a walkable alternative to the Stop and Shop in South Bay for those bigger shopping trips. Would have preferred a Wegman's, but this should be a win-win for the neighborhood, provided the entire development is thoughtfully done with the community in mind (make the smaller commercial spaces friendly to local businesses and have the development be attractive enough to bring traffic to the area -- as there's literally no reason to go through there now unless you're commuting downtown for work).

The City needed to spice up this corner of Harrison and Herald St. I hope that this does not become the new center of the South End, because the site is really within the Chinatown neighborhood borders. Don't think that it will be just South Enders walking to this complex. Pedestrians will have to walk very carefully as "outsiders "
will bring their cars in while driving at anxious speeds trying to get a parking space.
Watch out that your dogs and baby strollers don't get hit. Enjoy the madness.