Star Tribune Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:30:16 GMT
Small Cub Foods store causing a big ruckus in Eagan
A second Cub Foods store planned in Eagan is being touted as the Twin Cities' smallest, but that has done nothing to alleviate concerns in the neighborhood about high-density traffic. A second Cub Foods in Eagan may come as good news to many local shoppers, but not to some neighbors of the store that is planned in a hotly contested development on Diffley Road. Cub Foods said last month it will anchor the new Diffley Marketplace, replacing plans for a Rademacher's Fresh Market that had been envisioned just east of an existing Walgreens. The new store, slated to open this fall, will be the smallest Cub Foods in the Twin Cities and have a unique, neighborhood-friendly design, said Lee Ann Jorgenson, a spokeswoman for the grocery chain. But residents on nearby Daniel Drive have fought the marketplace since the summer of 2005, many on the grounds that increased traffic would endanger their children. Some also worry that the Cub brand name will attract even more drivers than they had feared. "People are more familiar with a Cub Foods," said Kate Boyle, a Daniel Drive resident with four children who said news of the grocery-chain swap made her "even more concerned" about the development. Cub plans a 42,000-square-foot store -- less than two-thirds the size of its typical store -- with a design to meet the city-approved development plan, Jorgenson said. The store will not stow pallets above its aisles, and will have a warmer color scheme and subtler lighting than most of the 56 Cub stores in the Twin Cities area. It will also close between midnight and 6 a.m., unlike the standard 24-hour Cub, she said.
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