 | | Kathy and I went up to Carlsbad to check out the progress of the new shopping center. Here's the view from trader joe's looking east to kathyvision!
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 | | Trader Joes on left, Pete's Coffee in the middle, and Milton's on the right with round thing.
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 | | Something tells me that Pete's will get a lot of Kathy's money : )
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 | | Trader Joe's... one of their entrances... we'll see how it works out for them.
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 | | I think round-abouts are a fantastic idea. Not stop signs or lights, slows down traffic... i could be drinking the APA koolaid of course...
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 | | More Trader Joe's
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 | | Pete's Coffee. I wonder if they signed up before the market crash?
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 | | The small shops! Carlsbad Optometry will be in the middle, the one with the angled roof line. This is the view driving in, and we think it'll stand out the most of the small units.
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 | | Another view of shop C.
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 | | Because i like to take lots of pictures. Hey, it's all digital and we have lots of storage : )
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 | | Thew view eastward.. see Stater Bro's going in?
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 | | I generally follow the law when Kathy is around so we stayed behind the fence!
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 | | New home of Milton's, they make a kick-ass sausage sandwich!!!
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 | | Ah-ha! I think that's the street number of the building. What i don't know is why the number is so large.. there's like 3 building on the street. They could have used 1-5 or something.
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 | | Closer up of unit 101, glass in place. We'll need security film on that, apparently there's been a rash of break-ins at opto places for the high-end frames.
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 | | Picture for sign design work.
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 | | If you haven't seen this before (you're blind).
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 | | Behind Shop D is the new Boy's & Girl's Club... yeah, like we want to be around screaming kids w/ no money.
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 | | There better not be any punk-ass kids here... yeah... probability of that approaches zero...
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 | | But i think a sandlot will do kids better than a building...
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 | | View north to Shop B and D...
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 | | Next we stopped off at Vista Village to check out this guy's opto shop. It doesn't seem to be going so well, but the retail environment is similar to Kathy's new shop.
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 | | Taking pictures of signs to see what colors we like and don't like.
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 | | I don't like his sign, i'm guessing it's suboptimal at night. And kathy hates the neon in the windows.
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 | | Oh Karen. It seems like a lot of optos are penny wise pound foolish. I think it has to do with risk aversion, so the docs will invest a little in a bad idea and blow it, than risk more to do it right. Oi...
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