July 05, 2005

Liberals oppose Home Depot, increased numbers of day laborers

Shockingly, I've recently received an email from the worthies at the Friends of Atwater Village. They're complaining about Home Depot's plans to build yet another store along San Fernando Road. This one would take the place of the old KMart building at Fletcher. Home Depot already has another store at the S.F. Road/Figueroa junction in Cypress Park, and they also have one further north in Glendale near S.F. and Colorado Blvd.

HD wants to demolish the KMart building, build a store, transfer their Glendale employees to the new store while the Glendale location was closed for remodeling, then transfer them back and end up with three HDs all within about 6 miles along one street. So, assuming you were on S.F. Road for some unknown reason, you'd never be more than 1 mile from buying some lumber.

Anyhoo, the FAV have a page about this, which contains the following:

...As of yet, Home Depot has no plans to help abate the problems they would bring to the community. Such problems like increased vehicular traffic on San Fernando / Fletcher Drive and day laborer population... Attract more "day labors" to the area that already can’t accommodate them, like Fletcher Drive...

Previously in Atwater news: "An excerpt from Eric Garcetti's diary".

Posted to Los_Angeles at July 5, 2005 02:37 PM

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