If you guys haven't checked out John Michlig's Sprawled Out blog yet, yesterday he had an entry with "BREAKING NEWS" proportions. I believe he's pretty accurate to a certain degree, it's breaking news that it happened but as my blog pointed out several months ago, the writing was clearly on the wall. All that was left was for the deed to be done. Well, yesterday, it was done, and from what my sources told me, what John Michlig wrote, and what Sendik's Food Market's IT Director wrote on his Twitter - Franklin will be losing one of our Sendik's food stores. Sendik's Fine Foods, in the Shoppes at Wyndham Village, will be shutting down...less than a year after it opened to much fanfare.
Since it's early in the morning, I don't want to make too many remarks on it now, since I do have a lot to say. I'm also waiting to see if the mainstream media outlets, like the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Tom Daykin, pick up on the story to prove (or disprove) it. Being as involved as I was with regards to that project as a whole, the possible closure of Sendik's Fine Foods is a big letdown. Let's just put it this way, Franklin: We were initially promised something similar to a Greenway Station when this project kicked off on Halloween night, 2006. Tom Balistreri, the owner of Sendik's Fine Foods, and hometown developer Mark Carstensen certainly made their impressions with the public that this shopping center was going to be top notch and, in my opinion, certainly upscale. We ended up getting a Target, and now the gem of the center (in my opinion), Sendik's, will be shutting its doors.
Like I said, keep in touch with this site as the day (and week) goes on. Hopefully some clearer answers will emerge, and quite possibly some more open-ended questions and observations.
