Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Good advice / Retail Arcade Needs Your Help
Posted by Nicki Wood on Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:51 AM
It's so great to stroll through the Arcade at lunchtime. Will it be a slice at House of Pizza? Fresh salad and homemade soup at Maggie's Cafe? Or Peanut Shop's peanut butter malt balls for lunch? Since you're supporting local businesses, you can get them all, assuaging your guilt with the notion that you're a one-person Stimulus Package.
The Art Deco post office in the Arcade is one of only two in Tennessee targeted for a closure study. The closure would make Broadway the nearest branch for about 47,000 downtown workers. And it would deprive the historic Arcade of one of its anchor tenants.
The Peanut Shop has a stack of petition letters asking that the Arcade Post office be removed from the list and remain open.The public comment period is still open, but not sure how much longer, and a call to the regional post office review person was not returned. So run down and pick up a petition/letter with your peanut butter malt balls.
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I'm all for supporting the Arcade, but having two post offices within blocks of each other is pretty hard to justify these days, unless those condos start filling up soon. The Church Street facility towards Baptist makes it three if you draw the circle to include the Gulch and Bicentennial Mall in those directions (circles being, well, circular and all). Let's face it, most workers in big offices use their internal facility services for mailing things, and everyone with a home has a postal carrier that can pick up their mail and provide stamps, etc., by ordering in advance or online, so the need for 47,000 downtown workers for triple coverage is probably a little over-stated.
We're probably lucky they've left the Broadway facility intact, shadow of itself it may be...
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Excuse me, but what other post office is just blocks away from this one?? The nearest one I know is in the Frist building. That is no where near close enough for all the downtown workers to walk to.
Yeah, it'd be hard to cram in lunch and a trip to the Frist Center P.O. outpost if you worked in the Northeast corner of downtown.
The Arcade post office absolutely brings people to the Arcade at lunchtime; if they close it, I suspect traffic will decrease and some of downtown's more interesting lunch options will go away. I, for one, would miss the lemonade at Greek Touch.
and it's not hard for every other person without Post Offices in walking distance to their place of work???
I'm not sure how I'd make it to a post office when my branch opens at 8:30am, (I have to be at work at 8:45, so that's not possible) and closes at 5pm (I get off work at 6pm). In fact, pretty much every trip while walking to the Arcade post office, I wonder how I'd be able to mail stuff if it weren't for that branch.
And actually, when I receive a note in my mailbox telling me there is a package waiting at my branch's post office because it was too big for my mailbox, I have to wait until SATURDAY to go get it, because that's the only time I am able to go to my branch.
All I was saying was, I find the Arcade branch highly necessary, and I know I have other coworkers who feel the same way.
AND... in trying to be green, I prefer to run errands on foot or bicycle whenever possible. I've made my Saturday trips to my local post office branch on bicycle more than once!
I just don't understand why they would close a branch that seems to be pretty busy. I even see tourist type people in there mailing things on occasion.
