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Trader Joe’s likely to open store location in Orleans Parish on Tulane Ave

Posted on 6/1/23 at 11:08 am
Posted by Fun Bunch
New Orleans
Member since May 2008
116328 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 11:08 am
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Trader Joe's, the California-based grocery chain with a cult-like following, is planning to open a store on Tulane Avenue late next year, according to a source familiar with the development, another sign of the transformation of the once seedy boulevard into a burgeoning medical-based district.

The proposed development would transform a long-disused and overgrown lot — which covers almost the entire block between Tulane Avenue and Banks Street, with South Rocheblave and South Dorgenois streets making up its other borders — into a 13,000-square-foot grocery store, with more than 100 parking spaces.

It is located adjacent to the old Dixie Brewery, the facade of which is now part of the huge $1 billion Veterans Administration complex, which opened in 2016.


I’m happy about it, and I know they are trying to revitalize that area a good bit, but still a pretty off location for TJ’s to me.

They better have substantial security.
Posted by schwartzy
New Orleans
Member since May 2014
9057 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 11:09 am to
That is not a good area. The chick fil a they just opened on Carrollton and Tulane also still scares me and I would fear for my life if I worked there
Posted by vistajay
Member since Oct 2012
2517 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 11:11 am to
That could help that area a lot. Whole Foods is not real far from there, but a close grocery store to the Med Complex and all the new apartments is big.
Posted by WPBTiger
Parts Unknown
Member since Nov 2011
31279 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 11:13 am to
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Trader Joe's, the California-based grocery chain with a cult-like following, is planning to open a store on Tulane Avenue late next year


To shut down early the following year.
Posted by Lakeboy7
New Orleans
Member since Jul 2011
23965 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 11:15 am to
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they are trying to revitalize that area a good bit,


Tulane has pretty much bought everything available in the area. They are copying the Willis Knighton (North) Model in Shreveport which is just buy everything near your facilities. Its cheaper to buy all that low priced crap than start a new campus.

And there is a cooperative for security so it will be safe.
This post was edited on 6/1/23 at 11:18 am
Posted by GEAUXT
Member since Nov 2007
29286 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 11:17 am to
But still not Mandeville
Posted by broadhead
Member since Oct 2014
2131 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 11:18 am to
Trader Joe's in BR is really pushing it with me. There is an employee that is dressed as a woman but has a full beard.
Posted by doc baklava
Between heaven and hell
Member since Oct 2020
811 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 11:18 am to
"Grand opening, grand closing." - Chris Rock
Posted by TigerDude80
METRY
Member since Nov 2007
1745 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 11:25 am to
Posted by glassman
Next to the beer taps at Finn's
Member since Oct 2008
116182 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 11:30 am to
Thought their NOLA store was going to be at St Charles and Louisiana Avenue. I think Ida stopped that.
Posted by Klark Kent
Houston via BR
Member since Jan 2008
67051 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 11:43 am to
I anxiously await the follow-up post 2 years from now confirming the Trader Joe’s in Orleans Parish on Tulane Ave is permanently closing.
Posted by willymeaux
Member since Mar 2012
4755 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 11:46 am to
Posted by Smeg
Member since Aug 2018
9415 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 12:08 pm to
Shopping at a grocery on Tulane Ave.

Posted by bee Rye
New orleans
Member since Jan 2006
33965 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 2:09 pm to
Maybe when it opens you can finally find a parking spot at the Metairie store
This post was edited on 6/1/23 at 2:10 pm
Posted by red sox fan 13
Valley Park
Member since Aug 2018
15358 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 2:37 pm to
Feels like Trader Joes will get eaten alive in NOLA. They are hippies who are way too friendly.
Posted by MSTiger33
Member since Oct 2007
20407 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 2:48 pm to
Are they going to bother putting in checkout lanes? People are just going to walk out with everything without paying.
Posted by dgnx6
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2006
68960 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 3:31 pm to
where? in midcity next to some clubs people get shot at and the drifter?
Posted by 6R12
Louisiana
Member since Feb 2005
8747 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 4:16 pm to
All I can say is LOL. Somebody get the Katrina looter pic going.
Posted by turnpiketiger
Southeast Texas
Member since May 2020
9575 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 4:18 pm to
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California-based grocery chain with a cult-like following


Not in Texas. No one gives a shite about Trader Joe’s here or Louisiana. This is H-E-B and Rouses country.
Posted by The Boat
Member since Oct 2008
164358 posts
Posted on 6/1/23 at 4:23 pm to
Trader Joe’s is at the bottom of the fart sniffing grocery stores. There’s much better options if you’re in to that kind of place.
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