Slowing growth and layoffs in 2008 dropped the organic grocer from 16th on last year’s list. But as Fortune reports, the setbacks “haven’t curbed the enthusiasm of the company’s young workforce” — 28% of whom are younger than 25.
The Burbank City Council recently voted against bringing Whole Foods to Burbank, but I hope our current council members and hopefuls and city staff bring Whole Foods or a similar business to the Circuit City site.
I hope we take our time and do not fill the space with any business. We need to be more concerned about the quality of the businesses we bring to Burbank and look into companies with solid profiles.
Quality merchants like Whole Foods will not only create jobs, but will also generate new shoppers from surrounding areas who regularly will not shop at the Town Center or its surrounding stores, and this overlap to the Town Center and surrounding stores can help all the businesses.
ARMOND AGHAKHANIAN
Burbank
Two bones to pick with Burbank
My two cents:
First, if we had more bike paths (the white-line- defined ones on the sides of roads), perhaps along Olive Avenue, Hollywood Way, Buena Vista Street and Riverside Drive, we wouldn’t have to read the continuous complaints about cyclists on the Chandler Bikeway (“Bikeway problems are kids’ stuff,” Mailbag, Saturday), and that could then be redesignated as a walking/running path.
Second, glowing letters to the editor supporting candidates should not come from city employees or city-appointed persons such as Todd Layfer (“Golonski is the man for Burbank,” Mailbag, Saturday), especially if his candidate loses and he’s stuck with someone else on the dais.
BOB BEHER
Burbank
