Re: Corner Bakery
That's not true. Corner Bakery would bring in it's own group which would augment the trend-setting population that has already done a good job supporting independent businesses.Originally Posted by betts
For those of you reminding me that chains have a certain site selection process - I do this for a living and I am very familiar with the difficult task of trying to get something out of a corporate entity. That said, it happens from time to time and I see no reason why it can't be happening in OKC. Sometimes it has to do with who the franchisee is - Covelli Enterprises for example has opened Panera locations around the Midwest that their corporate office wouldn't approve normally.
More and more these days, just about every chain has an urban business model they can switch to. There's a strong recognition in retail circles that the indoor shopping mall is dead. Perhaps they have OKC on an internal list of places where site selection considerations are still right out of the 1990s, which is only backed up by the unfortunate fact that OKC will drive to anything new regardless of location.
I was down in Columbus last week and noticed that a 1-mile area around High Street & Lane Avenue has urban formats of the following: Urban Outfitters (sad that an "urban" format is of note for them), Anthropologie, Dr Martens, Panera, Red Robin, Buffalo Wild Wings, Raising Cane's, and Waffle House. I didn't even realize some of these chains were so adaptable. The Panera locations in Cleveland and Lakewood don't have parking.
I have a feeling that households NW of downtown are being served with 23rd Street locations whereas that short of a distance would almost always fall within the 3 and 5 mile circles. It's also of note that you guys think it's the 1 mile circle that hurts downtown. How many 1 mile circles in OKC have 6-7,000 residents that aren't named Lyrewood?
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Re: Corner Bakery
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