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DISCOUNT RETAIL
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California, Arizona and Neva- This 99 Cents Only Store in Colleyville is one of13 in the Metroplex.
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The discount retailer has 48
stores in Texas,including 13 in in Euless. The company has four
the Metroplex The company The company said it lost$15 stores in Dallas,two in Garland,
I said store associates and work- million on revenues of.$120 and one each in Lewisville,Ir-
ers at its Texas distribution cen- million in the year ending June ving and Plano.
ter will receive severance pack- 28. Earlier this month,99 Cents
ages. `Although progress was Only Stores raised its prices al-
I It did not say when the continually made over the most a penny,to 99.99 cents,its
stores would begin closing. years,we were still losing mon- first-ever increase since open-
In Tarrant County, it has ey in Texas,and we determined ing in 1982'The retailer has 230
stores ,at 6732 Camp Bowie that it was not likely we would stores in California, Arizona
I Blvd.in Fort Worth, 6246 Rufe achieve profitability in the near and Nevada. ,
Snow Drive in North Richland future," Eric ,Schiffer, chief
Hills, 3901 Coffeyville Blvd. in executive of 99 Cents Only
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Stores,said in a statement. ' SANDRA BAKER,8 -390-m7
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HEALTH
Studv: More fast food found i J
lower-income areas
A Star-Telegram analysis shows that such neighborhoods tend to -
attract fewer nutritious alternatives.
mentary School, where Dr. The Star-Telepm analy-
By BRYON OKADA and JEFF CIAASSEN &hard Long of John Peter sis showed that fast-food res-
okada@star-telegrarn.com Smith Hospital is involved in taurants make up 70 percent
Pick any busy interSectioiin Tarrant a project to reduce obesity. or pore of the eateries in low-
County. What food options do You4 - "That first layer is fast- &come areas like east Fort
see? food places - a lot of fried- Worth, much higher than the
~t rentw wood stair RoadandHan- cwcken places and conve- countywide rate of 48 Per-
dley Drive in east Fort Worth are The nience stores," , long said cent.
Kolache ShO~~e, am ";You really have to get at least , . But the analysis of 4,695
Bueno, QuikTrip, Domino's Pizza md a mile away from the school r'estaurants and food stores
Williams Chicken. before you start to see any faund some places that buck
Go to Airport Freeway and Main GsineSse~ at all." ~ase trends.
Street in Euless, and it's Wendy's, Jack The issue is not so much 7,, Fast food abounds in west
in the'Box, McDonald's, Long John the presence of fast food. It's a Arlington's well-to-do 76016
Silver's, Wafne House, starbucks, p~pular, aff~rdablech~ice. ZIP code, mostly because of
Sonic; DonutLand,mlataburger, Ta- The concern comes when hamburger, pizza and fried- :
co Bueno, Braum's, Saviano's, pop- fast food is the only option. chicken restaurants dong '
ThiS summer, the Los An- &en Oaks Boulevard and
and two and pop grocer- gdes City Council voted 12-0 Little Road. ies. to place a one-year moratori- , - Some low-income areas,
On certain streets urn on new fast-food estab- ; bcluding parts of Fort
can find a of lishments in high-minority, Worth's north and south Southeast Asian noodle shops and lower-income Mexican taquerias. neighbor- yjdes, rank high for quality
hoods in south Los Angeles. food stores because of their
In there are The move was intended to large number of chain gro-
fast and others give planners time to study cey stores and neighbor-
with Of and the effects of "the over-prolif- hood bakeries, not including "more chikin." eration of fast-food restau- d6ughnut . - shops. . What see - depends On where rants in these communities.'t 3 ... But inmost places, healthy -
you are.
A Star-Telegram analysis shows'
that North Texas neighborhoods
with lower incomes tend to attract
-a disproportionate number of
convenience stores and fast-food
restaurants and fewer healthy alter-
natives.
It5 obvious in southeast Fort
Worth near Mitchell Boulevard Ele-
Past ordinances restricting
restaurant planning were de-
signed for traffic control, ~ffi-
c'ials said. This is the first time
the city has tried to control
uiban development because
adpublic health. -. .A 2007 Los Angeles Times
analysis of 8,200 restaurants
found that south Los Angeles
had the highest concentra-
Gon of fast-food restaurants
and far fewer grocery stores.
T& area had an adult obesity
rate of 30 percent, compared
with 20.9 percent county-
wide.
food choices are scarce in
low-income areas and plenti-
W.in high-income areas.
Some signs . suggest that
&?se patterns affect resi-
dents' health.
East Arlington's 76014 ZIP
cgde had one of the county's
h?lghest obesity rates in 2004,
rhging between 44 and 59
pikcent, acqording to Tarrant
County Public Health.
, ,,The ZIP code also had one
qf,the highest rates of fast-
f9,qd restaurants, 70 percent.
,_ pP, codes 76112, on Fort
Worths east side, and 76016,
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- ..By contrast, wealthy areas
&e Colleyville, . Southlake
atid Fort Worth's Cultural Dis-
trict reported low rates of
obesity and fast-food restau-
t ants and a high concentra-
tion of high-quality food
stores, including large-chain
grocery stores, farmers mar-
kets, bakeries and health-
fo'od stores. "- . , - - .Al
Online exclusive B - TO view an interactive
map that shows fast-food
restaurants, food stores and
median income, go to
star-telegrarn.com/extras
How did that
get on my plate?
North Texas school districts
have been grappling with nu-
tritional content for years.
Not so much with cities,
where planners generally ig-
nore ,nutritional content in
dealhg with prospective res-
taurants, various officials
said. As long as applicants
'conform to zoning, menus
:take a back seat to noise and
aesthetics. . Health inspectibns, focus
on sanitation and the risk for
communicable diseases, said
Elmer IJePaula, Fort Worth
consumer health manager.
Residents' obesity is not a
factor, although it should be,
Arlington planning manager
Maria Carbajal said.
"I was fortunate to travel to
Europe, where theywalk a lot,
and it makes a real differ-
ence," Carbajal said.
in Arlington's west side, also
reported high rates of obesity
and . . fast-food restaurants.
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To that end, Arlington has
initiated special zo~ng in its
entertainment district near,
the new Cowbovs stadium to
spur pedestrian-friendly de-
velopment. The idea, Carba-
jal said, is that if you build a
denser, walkway-intensive
development, it will subtly
begin to shift people's think-
ing toward a healthier Me-
style. Demand for healthier
food would naturally follow
-and where there's demand,
businesses will seek to satisfy
it.
Southlake's downtown dis-
trict is already well on its way
with the establishment of
Southlake Town Square and,
across the street, Central
Market. Again, the idea is to
build so that people get out of
their cars and onto the side-
walk.
"It focuses on building de-
sign, the relationship of the
building to the streetscape as
well as pedestrian environ-
ment, and is basecl on a set of
urban-design principles,"
said Ken Baker, Southlake's
director of planning and de-
velopment services.
Development in Euless is
following suit. New appli-
cants in projects along Texas
121 must, obtain a specificv
use permit from the City
Council for a "restaurant with
a drive-through," said Chris
Barker, planning and devel-
opment manager.
At Glade Parks, a planned
development off Texas 121,
drive-through restaurants are
banned, Barker said. Bank
drive-throughs and curbside
service for restaurants are still
allowed, however.
"I eat out Aery Saturday,"
said Giselda Guerrero, 20, at
the Whataburger on Beach
Street in Fort Worth. "People
can do whatever they want.
NO one should be telling
them what to do. I love fast
food; I love Whataburger. I
would be totally against the
city doing anything lie L.A."
Fort Worth Councilmen
Jungus Jordan, Danny Scxth
and FrankMoss -who repre-
sent areas with the highest I
concentrations of fast food-
said they would oppose a '
moratorium here.
In east Fort Worth, Scarth
and Moss said, it's not just an
inability to bring in sit-down
restaurants; they're having
problems hanging on to the
restaurants they have.
"We have barbecue and
fried-chicken restaurants,
and many of those are closing
up," Moss said. "Moratoriu'ms
are a luxury we can't afford."
Once an area is labeled as
high-minority or low-income
or as an area where new hous-
es aren't being built, it gets
harder to attract - - yestaura-
teurs, Moss said. And, hesaid,
there's a perception that mi-
norities won't patronize sit-
down restaurants. '
Jordan and Scarth pointed
to efforts toward transit-ori-
ented development - high-
density, mjxed-use develop-
ment around rail lines - as
an attempt to zone in a bal-
ance of healthier places to
eat.
But in general, they said,
the market should determine
what stays and what goes. If
there's a buck to be made, ----- .
Prevalence of fast-food restaurants in Tarrant County
ZIP codes with the highest percentage of fast food
Median Fast
ZIP Cityiarea Pop.' Income* Eateries food
'0 76f20 Fort Worth, east 13,150 $43,269 . ' 24 75.0%
a, @ 7601 6 Arlington, west 32,164 $82,695 35 71.4%
@ 761 12 Fort Worth, 42,966 $37,007 44 70.5%
Handley
0 7601 4 ~rlingtori, east ' 33,214 $48,084 20 70.0% - -
076134 Fort Worth, 21,594 W,547 25 68.0%
far south
ZIP codes with the lowekt percentage of fast food -
76051 Grapevine 47,746 $80,229 166 25.9%
@ 76034 Colleyville 23,261 $1 34,987 41 26.8%
0 76092 Southlake 24,578 $165,035 92 33.7%
'2007 numbers ' . -
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Sources~Publ~c heqlth departments STAR-TELEGRAM
Still, North Texas city offi- won't somebody move in to
cials are careful not to appear make it?
to be dictating choices to resi-
dents.
It's apparently a prudent
course, based on the senti-
ments of manv residents.
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Health-food options?
For nearly four decades, the
McCarthy family has operat-
ed Sunflower Shoppe on Cur-
zon Avenue off Camp Bowie
Boulevard in west Fort Woith.
, In the early days, Bettye and
Harlan McCarthy operated it
as a niche health-food store,
selling herbs and vitamins
with little or no direct compe-
titibn. The store gradually ex-
panded to include natural
food and organic produce. In
-April 1994, a second store was
opened, called Healthy Ap-
.proach Market, off Texas 121
in Colleyville. It will also be-
gin using the name Sunflower
Shoppe in October.
Bothlocations were select-
ed because of traffic and vis-
ibility, said Erika McCarthy,
'who handles marketing.
The Fort Worth shop's cus-
tomer base is mostly whlte
upper-middle-class families
from the Ridglea, Monticello
and Arlington Heights neigh-
borhoods. The Colleyv~lle
store's customers generally fit
the same demographic, only
fiom nearby Northeast Tar-
rant cities.
McCarthy says immigrant
families are often well-versed
in natural foods and herbs.
But there are multiple poten-
tial barriers to' a family-
owned health food store
opening in areas like south-
east Port Worth or east Arling-
ton. They include language,
higher prices and less famil-
' iarity with what customers
want;
Fearing it would "spread
ourselves too thin," the own-
ers of Sunflower Shoppe
aren't considering adding
stores, Chief Executive Rich-
ard Bradford said.
But the question remains:
If they did build it, would
other kinds of customers
come?
At both stores, minorities
account for only 10 percent of
rhe customer base.
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Euless
1. Office leases
610 Industrial Blvd.
Allied Lube leased 2,061 square
feet. Lone Star Health Systems
leased 2,308 square feet.
Broker: Cody Payne negotiat-
ed the transaction.
Fort Worth
2. ~istribution centers, f
Mercantile Center ,.
Bob Moore-Constr'uction com-
pleted two speculative dis- '
tribution centers totaling
319,300 square feet. I
Hardy McCullah/MLM Archi-
tects is the architect. I
3. Medical office purchases '
7633 Bellaire Drive S. , '
Gibson Asset Management '
purchased several medical '
offices in River Hills Medical
Office Condominium Devel-
opment. The square footage
totals 5,490 square feet.
Broker: Bill Jordan of Moss
Jordan &Associates repre-
sented the developer, TAK
Enterprises. . ,
4. Shopping center sold
6949 Green Oaks Road .
.The Shops at Ridgmar, a nearly
42,000-square-foot strip shop-.
ping center adjacent to Ridg-
mar mall, has, been bought by a
partnership of the James R.
Harris Co., called 6900 Ridgmar
Retail Group. The center is
nearly fully leased, and the
name is being changed by the
new owners to Ridgmar North.'
Weight Watchers, Beneficial
Finance, Catherine's apparel ;
shop and Sewing World are '
some of the tenants of the
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center, which was developed by
Stanley Peskin in the early
1980s.
Brokers: Rodger Chieffalo
with Chieffalo Realty repre-. ,
sented thebuyers The cente; .
was sold by WCJ Ridgmar 98
,Ltd., a partnership of the Wil-
liap C. Jennings real estate
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5. Building sale
1719 8th Ave.
Cook Children's Health Care
System has bought this former
Carnival Food Store location. .
The 28,000-square-foot build- ,
ing will be renovated for use as
offices by the children's health '
care provider. There are about
2 acres at the site.
Brokers: Ryan Matthews with
Jones Lang LaSalle represented
the buyer. David Walters with '
Quine & Associates repre-
sented the seller, the limited
partnership TSCA-50. TSCA-50'
bought the property in 1998.
Haslet
6. Lease
880 Blue Mound Road W.
Tim Kempka leased 1,500 '
square feet at Suite 108 for an,
auto sales business.
Broker: Leah Haroldson of 1
Ron Sturgeon Real Estate is'thej
leasing manager.
Mansfield
7. Lease
i 1206 ~ansfield Highway i
Gary Dimsdle leased 1,%00 I
square feet for a transmission I
repair business. 1 I
Broker: Leah Haroldson of ., 1
Ron stfieon Real Estate is $he!
leasing manager.
company.
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EATS BEAT
Fall is Greek ~ood Festival
time and Dallas' is this weekend.
The Dallas dinner buffet fea-
tures souvlakia, spanakopita and
pastizio, along with Greek salad.
It's $15, or $10 for lunch. Look for
it at 13555 Hillcrest Road, 972-
233-4880, www.greeldestivalof-
dallas.com.
Mark a calendar for the Mid-
Cities festival Oct. 10-12 in Euless
(www.midcitiesgreekfest.info)
and the Fort Worth festival Nov.
7-9 (www.fortworthgreeldesti-
val.com).
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BRIE . -
6- . 5. . . "2 Trinity club sponsors pet fair .
EULESS - Trinity High School's Girls Awareness Program
is sponsoring a pet fair and adoption qvent from 10 a.m.
to 7 p.m. Saturday in the schAool parking lob, 500 N. Indus-
trial. Pets wilf be available for adoptions,and dog baths ,
will be offered, A pet trainer and a pet groomer will be a
on hand to answqr questions. The club will have a draw- .
ing for two baskets of dog and cat goodies, Money raised
goes to the city of Euless' animal shelter and GAP'S spay)
neuter program. T:*:-< - Matt Frazier
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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
New projects unveiled,
for Hurst-Euless-Bedford
City managers in Bedford, HighlightS
Euless and Hurst @iscuss City officials gave updates on key developments and projects in'
development, taxes and Hurst, Euless and Bedford:
public improvements at the -.
annual State of the Cities. Hurst , .
w The city'r new Heritage Village Plaza plans ;o open ire ~ta: , . tion No. 2 in November; a 40,000-square-foot senior center next By ADRIENNE NETTLES
anetties@star-telegram.com September; and a 103-unit senior housing proiect in January ,
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HuRsT-Ci~mmagersfiOm W The Hurst Public Library ih adding 12,000,square feetbf 4. '
Hurstj Euless and Bedford un- ' meeting office and programming space, which will include a - ":
veiledplms Thursdayt0 bring public coffee bar. The project will be bid in early 2009and . +
and conference centers
' expected to be completed a year later. ' L . . ,.
to their cities during the HEB W A $300 million project in Town Center is planned thdt '. Commerce's ' will include office, retail and entertainment space along Thou- , nu' State the Cities break- sand Oaks Drive. The project is at least three to five years out. fast. il %, "
City, county and state offi- Bedford , . , Rep' Todd . The City Council has approved funding for studies on the ' '
Smith and County city's retail base, a Texas 183 corridor expansion and the viabili- ,
Gary Fickes ty of building a town center. were briefed On the projects at Renovations have been completed on Fire Stations No. 1 and
" the Inn Express, in .2, and the remodeling of Fire Station No. 3 should begin soon.
, Hurst.,' w The city,is designing reno~tions tothe former Food Lion
"We have a lot going on in grocery store at 2424 Forest Ridge Drive to become the city's our cities," Hurst City Manag- new. library. er Nan Weegar said. Weegar, I I
Bedford City ~ariager Beverly Euless a.
Queen and Euless Depu'J'Gity Five residential d~velopments i;e "nber construction, and a Manager loretta all three-story LaQuinta, inn and Suites hotel and a Comfort Suites
strong sales tax "l- on the Texas 183 service road just ek df Ector Drive are under lections and propew construction. Also being built is a QuikTrip corporate office off taxes in their cities, despite re- Boulewrd. . cent bad news the na- , w The Texas Star ~o~ference'center at the ~e& Star Golf tion's economy. Course is being expanded to accommodate groups of up to 300.
Amy McCd* mbketing The project bill be completed in February. * manager for 1 A Family Life Center at Midway Park is being planned that will" HaE'B' Hospitd9 an- incorporate a senior citizen center and expand the recreation , nounced that the 13 hospitals ,enter. . .
under the Texas Health Re-
sources system will undergo be Texas Health Harris M&- "that ihe hdspiths are part of
brand-name changes effective odist Hospit'al Hurst-Euless- . the sameL health system, she
Jan. 1. Bedford, McCall said. ,. said. , .
For example, Harris Meth- The new brand names
odist H.E.B.3 new name will will help consumers realize ; ADRIENNE NETTLES, 81;-39o-n52