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1
What percentage of units contained in the development will be affordable to a non-union/Whole Foods worker?
2
Rasmussen says: "We do not make a decision in regards to an alley vacation based upon who a possible tenant will be."

Patently false since not every possible tenant would need an alley vacation.
3
I should amend my prior comment to say cashier/stockperson.
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@2 did you read the permit? or anything about the structure? Or know anything about how the land use process works, your response is knee jerk and clueless.


Land Use Application to allow two, 7-story structures containing a total of 370 residential units over 62,750 sq. ft. of retail space. Parking for 598 vehicles to be provided below grade (two levels). Review includes 104,188 cu. yds. of grading. Existing structures totaling 35,136 sq. ft. to be demolished. Project includes alley vacation.


Please elaborate on how how another 63k sq foot retail tenant wouldn't use the alley vacation in this proposal?

This review has been dragging on for 4 years. Bringing up the hiring policies of one tenant is a sad desperate attempt to block progress, and it has an ear in Sawant, who is a single issue thinker on these matters.
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@4 Not that I'm a huge Sawant fan but that "single issue" is "good jobs for working people" which all decent people consider a pretty overwhelming issue.
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Can someone please look at the alley in question, and then tell us what useful public purpose that alley is providing today? From my viewpoint, the answer to this question is None.
8
So just charge them more than market rate for the land and put it in some dogooder fund for the city. Yeah, whole foods is owned and ran by libertarian jerks that cater to every fear published by mommy bloggers but... time to let this one go. Get extra money, and let them build.
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Good on sawant. I'd be content to thwart a whole foods development for the simple fact that they import (at a large carbon cost) apples from South America and New Zealand.

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