I found this article online about a possible downtown grocery store for Oklahoma City and the report says it is not feasable at this time. From what I can tell the report was dated May of 2006. Has anyone else read this? Is there any more news on the possibility of a downtown grocery store? I don't see how they can support all the new housing that is going in downtown without some major retail going in as well. The people living downtown need access to grocery stores, pharmacies, and all the other conveniences available in other parts of the city.

http://www.okc.gov/Planning/supermarket_do...20okc%202006%22

There was a survey that claimed OKC was a Top Five retail market, that's all I'll say.

Also there HAS been interest from Whole Foods and similliar retailers in OKC (which the powers that be would want them in downtown). Whole Foods is an upscale organic grocery "experience" (quite tasty I might add) that doesn't draw from the local grocery shoppers, but those looking for the "experience". It wouldn't need 6,000 in downtown to support it. It would need people in a metro that like that sort of thing. We have Alexa, and that's a start.

Downtown still may need a very small grocery store for your staples once this is all said and done, but I wouldn't exactly call a Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market a small grocery store. I hope Wal-Mart doesn't try to enter this market before anyone else to stall the entry of more retailers.

It's like the chicken or the egg. Downtown needs a grocery store for more growth, b/c living downtown w/o can get annoying. You have to drive and fight traffic on 23rd.

That's all I got...

You Betcha Baby, I will definitely be an advocate for Whole Foods! I hate the fact that there are certain things I can't get here grocery wise and for other things I have to drive all over the place to go to several different specialty shops. It gets old and it's so unneccessary to have to do that in a city this size. We have been overdue for a Whole Foods for a very long time. Heck, even a large Wild Oats Market would be nice!

The Tulsa World had an article dated last year (or maybe early this year) that quoted the developer in saying something along the lines that negotiations in Tulsa Hills are being arranged for an organic food retailer to sign an agreement for a lease in the development.

(Yes I tried to make that as wordy as possible. )