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More coverage of Friendly-Hobbs rezoning request

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News coverage of the proposed commercial development at the corner of Hobbs Road and Friendly Avenue in Greensboro.

Developer: Friendly project will have condos

GREENSBORO — The company that wants to build shops and condos at the corner of Hobbs Road and Friendly Avenue said Thursday that it wants to make sure residents and local leaders know it is serious about following through on the plan’s residential component.

So Halpern Development is working with the city’s planning department to write binding conditions into its request to rezone 6.77 acres that would require it to build condos in addition to retail space.

Friendly developer back with new plan

Company adds high-end condos to proposal for retail space in hopes of satisfying neighbors, critics.

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Atlanta company files new request for Friendly/Hobbs rezoning

Developer proposes condominiums along with retail space for site at Friendly and Hobbs.

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Read more coverage of Friendly-Hobbs rezoning

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Friendly developer back with new plan

GREENSBORO — An Atlanta developer has dropped plans for a fully commercial development on 6.77 acres at Friendly Avenue and Hobbs Road and will file a new rezoning request today that includes a mix of residential and retail development, the company’s attorney said Thursday.

(VIDEO) Developer asks city for delay of 60 days

An company representative says new designs for Friendly Avenue site will have housing option.

Halpern Development of Atlanta will file the new site plan to be considered by the Zoning Commission at its March meeting.

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2 council members won't support new rezoning plan

An Atlanta developer wants to rezone 6.77 acres from residential to retail use for a shopping center. 

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Hobbs-Friendly rezoning: This is the land of their dreams

GREENSBORO — Randy Rabin knows firsthand why 6.77 acres at Hobbs Road and Friendly Avenue fo…

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Developer at Friendly and Hobbs will file new plan Friday

GREENSBORO — An Atlanta developer has dropped its plans for a fully commercial development on 6.77 acres at Friendly Avenue and Hobbs Road and plans to file a new rezoning request that would include a residential component, the company's attorney said this afternoon. 

Halpern Development of Atlanta will file the new site plan on Friday to be considered by the Zoning Commission at its March meeting. 

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(VIDEO) Developer asks city for delay of 60 days

GREENSBORO — Halpern Development is headed back to the drawing board to redesign its proposed retail development at Hobbs Road and Friendly Avenue.

The company said Thursday that it will ask the Zoning Commission for a 60-day delay for its request to rezone the 6.77 acres from residential to commercial use.

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Neighbors fight shopping center plan at Hobbs and Friendly

Angry residents confronted the developer Tuesday night.

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2 council members won't support new rezoning plan

An Atlanta developer wants to rezone 6.77 acres from residential to retail use for a shopping center. 

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Neighbors fight shopping center plan at Hobbs and Friendly

GREENSBORO — An angry group of residents confronted an Atlanta developer Tuesday night who was presenting his company’s plans for a shopping center at the northwest corner of Hobbs Road and Friendly Avenue.

At best, residents said, the shopping center would not add anything to the retail offerings already available next door at Friendly Center and at worst, it would ruin the quality of life for neighborhoods and the entire Greensboro community that travels the Friendly Avenue corridor beyond Friendly Center.

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Battle of Friendly and Hobbs rages on

The Battle of Friendly and Hobbs is flaring once again and the fighting promises to be fierce.

At issue are nearly seven acres of land next to the Shops at Friendly that once were targeted for a small shopping center with a coveted Trader Joe’s as the anchor.

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Blog: So long for now, Trader Joe's

I’m not a betting person, but if I had to bet: We’re not going to see a Trader Joe’s in Greensboro in the next few years.

Why? It’s simple: Trader Joe’s said so. A big part of Trader Joe’s brand is customer service and customer loyalty. I think it would be bad for their brand if they went back on a public statement like that.

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Trader Joe’s bids aloha to any Greensboro store

GREENSBORO — Looks like Trader Joe’s isn’t coming here after all. At least not anytime soon.

After previously announcing that it was interested in the Friendly Shopping Center area, the company unexpectedly issued a statement on Tuesday that said it won’t be coming.

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Trader Joe’s: ‘We sell groceries’

No mas, Trader Joe’s said today.

As Kelly Poe reports, it wants no part of Greensboro’s political squabbling.

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Who paid for the "Help bring Trader Joe's here" sign?

I've gotten this question several times since we wrote this story Monday. It's a big sign - it's probably an expensive sign - so who footed the bill? Is the group really a front for the developer?

No. But the person who paid for it did have a financial interest in the development coming to fruition.

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New group's message to Trader Joe's: 'Please come'

GREENSBORO — Although some residents are publicly protesting a commercial rezoning of property near Friendly Center, another group is quietly taking the opposite stance.

Members of the Greensboro Trader Joe’s Committee support the rezoning because they want to see the grocery store chain finally come to the city.

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GREENSBORO — About 70 residents marched down West Friendly Avenue Saturday afternoon in protest of a planned shopping center.

Developers want to put a Trader Joe’s grocery store and a drugstore on about 7 acres between the First Lutheran Church and the Shoppes at Friendly Center.

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Why I'm calling it the "Trader Joe's proposal."

Any journalist will tell you they can’t please everyone. But I don’t think I’ve ever gotten so much reader feedback as I’m getting now when I write about the potential development at the intersection of Hobbs Road and Friendly Avenue.

A reader called me last week to express her dismay that “Trader Joe’s” was in the headline of a story about the Hobbs/Friendly development. The Friendly Coalition would love to have a Trader Joe’s, she told me, but she doesn’t want anything commercial in that particular spot.

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Trader Joe's service and value win praise in Winston-Salem

WINSTON-SALEM — Cynthia Adams calls Trader Joe’s the “poor man’s Fresh Market.”

It’s where she buys all the items she considers splurges, but at the fraction of the normal price.

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Trader Joe's backed out of Oregon project due to neighborhood opposition

So this is interesting: earlier this month, Trader Joe's pulled out of a development in Portland, Ore. citing "Negative reactions from the community," according to the Oregonian. 

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Trader Joe’s opponents vow to continue fight

GREENSBORO — The Trader Joe’s development near Friendly Avenue and Hobbs Road moved a step closer to being a reality Monday night, but opponents will continue to fight the rezoning until it goes before the City Council.

Monday, members of the Zoning Commission voted 8-1 to rezone 6.77 acres for a Trader Joe’s and a drug- store. Normally, that would constitute final action unless appealed.

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Hobbs and Friendly rezoning request has SO MANY conditions attached

GREENSBORO – Ground Up has seen a lot of contentious zoning cases. But Ground Up has never seen a zoning request with 18 conditions attached. 

There are few sites in Greensboro more contentious than the intersection of Friendly Avenue and Hobbs Road. The site will likely be a Trader Joe's. 

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The Friendly Coalition opposes zoning change

The Friendly Coalition, a group of neighbors who are united against commercial encroachment on residential neighborhoods along Friendly Avenue…

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Concerned citizens leave carrying signs from a meeting called by the Friendly Coalition, a group of neighbors who are united against additional commercial encroachment along Friendly Avenue, at First Lutheran Church on Sunday, Jan. 19, in Greensboro. Centennial American Properties is proposing a shopping center on 6.7 acres between Hobbs and Holden roads, on West Friendly Avenue, which will include a grocery store and drug store.

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Coalition predictably doesn't like Friendly shopping center plans

GREENSBORO — Today in unsurprising: the Friendly Coalition steering committee has taken an official stance against a proposed shopping center that I think is a Trader Joe's. 

Residents fought a similar but bigger development in 2012 that the developer eventually abandoned. The parcel in question is just across Friendly Avenue from the Shops at Friendly Center, so while it's a very commercial corridor, neighborhood residents weren't thrilled at the idea of losing their only buffer.

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Blog: Trader Joe's in Greensboro? Could be

A new national, gourmet grocery store in Greensboro?

Nothing causes buzz around here like new grocery stores.

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Retail plans for Hobbs Road area likely to spur fight

GREENSBORO — Developers want to put retail stores off Friendly Avenue where residents waged a high-profile — and successful — campaign to stop Trader Joe’s from building there in 2012.

CAP Development, a Greenville, S.C.-based retail developer, will ask the city to rezone the section of Friendly Avenue at Hobbs Road so it can build a gourmet grocery and a drugstore.

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File. Citizens protest on Friendly Avenue Jan. 19, in opposition to a proposed shopping center development.

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