Yes, promising if we get enough residents to patronize both the Whole Foods and say, Kim's Produce. I'm not too worried about Avalon and Goodwells; they both sell goods that a WF wouldn't, and Avalon may even supply the store with bread, as they do for Plum Market and Holiday's.

I guess I'm just surprised because we can't even keep first-floor retail open on the ground floor of the dorms -- the shops on Anthony Wayne are doing OK, but Pizzeria Venti shut down suddenly this fall, and the B&N convenience store will be gone in April as well. [[My futile wish is for a full service pharmacy and convenience store to open in that location, much like the new campus CVS @ U-M Ann Arbor... but of course, it won't with the perennially understocked University Pharmacy right there in the same block.)