Replacing Kmart

Posted on Sat, Mar. 19, 2005

Replacing Kmart

Re the recent letters on the proposed Home Depot in Coconut Grove: I, too, want a business to take over the Kmart space in Coconut Grove, but not a Home Depot-type of store.

Already Home Depot has the leases for the rest of the stores in that shopping center, and when the Milam's Market lease is finished, so is our only grocery store. Is that worth a Home Depot?

Who would want to live next to 1,000 pounds of fertilizer, herbicide and insecticide, which if caught on fire would cause the evacuation of residents near the proposed site? Storage of these types of materials is not proper for high-density residential neighborhoods. And having all of that material so close to Biscayne Bay is not a good idea from an environmental perspective.

WILLIAM ANDERSON, Coconut Grove

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