Oakville Grocery in CityScape

Oakville Grocery will be opening in Downtown Phoenix as part of the CityScape project. Originally AJ’s had signed a lease but when Basha’s ran into financial trouble they pulled out of the project, leaving us all to wonder who would take their place. I was hoping for a Fresh & Easy or a Trader Joe’s although I never thought that either were a likely possibility.

Looking at Oakville’s Web site, I see the store has the look and feel of a Trader Joe’s but it also looks…expensive or just too fancy for Downtown. I don’t know a lot of Downtown residents who would really benefit from an expensive grocery store. Will it be possible to pop in here for a gallon of milk and not pay close to 4 bucks? Can I get a cheap loaf of regular bread here on a Sunday afternoon or will it be those loafs of artisan bread covered in birdseed mix for $4.99?

There hasn’t been a grocery store in Downtown Phoenix since I was born, so I guess anything is better than nothing but this seems like a bad choice to me. I wish them luck and I hope I’m wrong, but at least there is a CVS going into CityScape because that is more my speed.

Tags: A.J.'s Fine Foods, CityScape, downtown phoenix, Oakville Grocery, Trader Joe's

J. Seth Anderson (J stands for John but I've always gone by Seth.) I'm not quite a Phoenix native (but dang close!) and I love Arizona. I'm an urbanist and dream of an urban Phoenix. I only go to places I can walk, bike, or take the light rail to. I spend a lot of time in downtown Tempe and Phoenix. I like to write, read, learn, play piano, and discover new things about my city. www.jsethanderson.com

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