Barnes & Noble to open new store in Asheville

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   Asheville resident August 21, 2009

   eemilla: those are not McMansions you speak of. A McMansion is when someone buys an existing house, tears it down and builds a house three times as large on the lot. It changes the neighborhood. Oak Forest neighborhood is a more likely candidate for that.

   Hey, if you don’t like the convenience of all these shops then don’t ever shop there. As for the shops, they would not be here if they did not make money. I hate to say it but your sleepy little town is all grown up and if you don’t like it you can try to move to another place. Just saying..

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   eemilla August 21, 2009

   As a South Asheville resident myself, I have to be shocked that another resident would be surprised at the composition of Biltmore Park. With all of those McMansions crammed together, Biltmore Park looks just like Charlotte’s suburbs. South Asheville is the conservative stronghold of Asheville, and it appears that conservatives love their chains and big box stores; except for Brixx pretty much everything closes by 9pm. Hendersonville Rd and Airport Rd are strip mall after strip mall (full of chain after chain); and new residential construction is limited to the cookie cutter modern tract housing style. We live in this part of town because we found a house in our price range that didn’t need to be re-habed, and I grew up in Avery’s Creek (right down the road from cookie cutter hell of Biltmore Park); however, South Asheville sucks. I am stoked that we’re getting a Thirty Monk scion, but I am perplexed as to how my husband and I can enjoy more than a sip and safely get home after 6p (excluding Sundays because the bus doesn’t run at all). I hope it does well, but South Asheville isn’t West or North Asheville.

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   Asheville Local August 20, 2009

   I am sooo looking forward to the new Barnes and Noble… I am always in the Skyland area and it will be very convenient. I wonder how it will effect Perks coffee shop next to the YMCA?

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   Asheville resident August 20, 2009

   South Asheville Resident: get with the program. Every city is doing this because people want to live where they work. Sign of the times. The development is not the last for Asheville. There is also one in Brevard that was finished recently. Yes Atlanta builds these everywhere, and yes they sell out, that’s the point.

   I understand how a development with covenant restrictions scares a lot of people here in the hills. Where are they going to park that old boat that doesn’t run or the old shed that fell in a decade ago.

   Jack is no fool, and the fact that he is this forward thinking is great for Asheville.

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   South Asheville Resident August 20, 2009

   I share Chickencrab’s thoughts. It’s convenient, but why did Jack Cecil have to build a little Charlotte or Atlanta in South Asheville. It’s sterile, ugly and full of very average chain restaurants and stores from elsewhere. No one in their right mind is going to buy tiny condos with views of parking lots. I hear only 8 are sold and most to his employees.

   He really missed a chanced to build something arts and crafts style that could be uniquely Asheville with mountain views and local restaurants and stores.

   Such a pity.

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   tara August 20, 2009

   yep… around the corner from brixx. its in the same building that the hilton is in, just up the corner. i’m pretty sure thats the section that biltmore farms decided to make apartments instead of condos

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   pedantic August 19, 2009

   BP is where it’s at, right across from the Brixx Pizza joint.

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   Lorrin B August 19, 2009

   I believe it’s right next to REI in Biltmore Park.

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   Asheville Dweller August 19, 2009

   In the area where the Reuters YMCAis located , Biltmore Park area I believe. Unless this is another one, then I have no clue.

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    ChickenCrab August 19, 2009

    Yup, it’s in Biltmore Park. I saw it when I went to the theatre last weekend. Looks huge.

    I have a strange fascination with that whole city/shopping complex thing they’re building. It’s both fascinating and disgusting at the same time. I’m quite torn.

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