I'm fine with the number of parking spots. Better as a biker to have cars corralled than circling neighborhood streets over and over, cutting across and bike lanes and generally fucking up bike routes more.

Sarah, that map would be much more useful if you included the legend.

I think this is great news for this area. It certainly makes living there without a car seem a lot more viable.

THIS WOULD BE AMAZING IF IT WERE A MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING WITH CONDOS AND APARTMENTS ABOVE THE STORE. AS IT IS, IT'S JUST A GOOD IDEA. ALSO, GROUND LEVEL PARKING IS A FUCKIG STUPID USE OF THE BUILDING'S FOOTPRINT; I REALLY LIKE THE ROOF-LEVEL PARKING LOT THEY BUILT AT THE HAWTHORNE STORE.

The I-5 traffic goes to the Arbor Lodge store at Rosa Parks and Interstate - much easier than this location.

They're never exactly generous with parking spots as it is.

I'm fine (this will become my closest NS), but there's no doubt it will make cycling on Williams/Vanc. more dangerous. But also I could pick up food on the way home, so there's that.

Aw. North Portland gets all the good stuff. Come to Deep SE, New Seasons!!

@Paul - hmmm you're right! There's no legend on that map. Weird. I'll try to find a version with a legend and upload it. For the time being, the blue dots on the map are grocery stores and the gray area around the stores are areas well-served by groceries.

This whole area is a total disaster for car and bike traffic to start with. This surely won't help without some major restructuring of intersections, lane markers and traffic lights.

The prime example of this traffic clusterf^&# is the fact that a car traveling east off the Fremont Bridge has to make three turns to get onto Fremont Street. Which just doesn't make sense if you consider, I don't know, the name of the bridge? Plus without a light or stop sign for traffic on Vancouver or Williams, traffic backs way up and those three turns can take quite a while. The cascading traffic gridlock and sometimes blind turns onto Williams are all dangerous for bicyclists and pedestrians.

Also, the nearest I5 ramp is over a mile away at Alberta or south at the Rose District. So this isn't going to pull any traffic from anywhere else. This'll be for locals (and those in NW Portland, if they have a car)

Third, without modifications the right turn off Williams onto Fremont will surely result in a bicyclist's death. It is just a matter of time until a terrible collision takes place. (My prediction is that it will be a rainy night just at sunset as some car driver right hooks a bicyclist in the blind spot that had no lights. I've seen that almost happen several times.)

This new building could be great addition to the area, but only if the city takes advantage of this opportunity to fix the traffic.

Love New Seasons as a market, hate New Seasons as developers. Consistently marginally just okay urban fabric buildings; junky architecture.

Man, this is awesome. I figured that lot would eventually turn into a Fred Meyer, but New Seasons is fine too. Finally, a grocery store in that neighborhood closer than the stupid whole foods.

@10 I agree it's probably going to take at least one death for the city to fix the Fremont Bridge off-ramp -> Fremont and the Vancouver approach to the Fremont on-ramp.

The cheapest solution would probably be four-way stops at a) the base of the on-ramp on Cook, b) Vanc & Cook, and they should make the stretch of Cook between Vanc and Williams a two-lane oneway eastbound with a traffic signal at Cook&Williams. DONE.

Only somewhat related, but does anyone know why they changed the intersection of Greely and Killingsworth into a four corner? Before, Killingsworth had a yield lane onto Greely, which seemed to work just fine. Seems like they solved a problem that didn't exists, while the on ramp to the Fremont goes unattended.

While the traffic issues in the area remain non-optimal, this is very good news for the area. I'll finally have a grocery store within walking distance of my apartment. Best thing I've heard all day.

Finally! A grocery store in my neighborhood that sells fresh produce. Now we just need a fubon asian market in oldtown chinatown.

If everyone is so concerned with traffic you all need to contact new seasons and inform them now. Their office is right on N. vancouver and Tillamook. I've met a lot of new seasons management employees, and they are all very cycling friendly.

Agree with Graham, it would be preferable to have a multi-use development of some sort on that site, although given the still somewhat sluggish economy, that's probably not realistic at the moment. Infill is happening in the hood, but at a somewhat modest pace. I'm a regular at the Arbor Lodge store, within walking distance of the new one (but far enough away that I probably won't be too impacted by the increase in traffic, not on a daily basis anyway), and plan on staying in my current apt for the foreseeable future, so for me this obviously good news. For the Whole Foods on Fremont, probably not such good news...

When in the bloody hell are they going to open a store downtown?

I rent a house in the Eliot neighborhood with three others, and we could not be more excited to have a decent grocery store within walking distance. There are a handful of little corner markets in the neighborhood, but they only sell processed junk, nothing fresh. You're lucky if you can buy a banana at one of these joints. All the aforementioned issues aside, having a real grocery store in the area is going to rock for Eliot residents.

@#15

That "yield" onto Greeley from Killingsworth wasn't really a yield, but in fact had a red light. Unfortunately, if you stopped for it, the person behind you would get all pissy, even though the visibility of oncoming traffic coming up the hill and around the corner was terrible. I'm happy to hear it is now a four-corners intersection.