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Month: August 2006

The Ramble: An update on Torme’s, a New Beginning for an area school, & Frank’s getting a Bobblehead night on my birthday!

An update on Torme’s

It appears that the crew interviewing Merv Torme was more interested in his comments about the announced changes at HealthSouth than with the current state of his long-time downtown business. For those just learning about it, the Associated Grocers store in Central City closed on Saturday, presumably to complete planned renovations to the store. We posted about it today during lunch. Increased residential development around the business appears to have influenced the family owned business, which have a second location in Bessemer, to upgrade their facilities. We’ll try to keep an eye on their progress for you. When completed, it may help temporarily curb calls for increased grocery options downtown. Longer operating hours would be helpful to downtown residents as well, though that would happen if people went there and supported the store after it reopens.

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Random Shots: So what’s going on with Torme’s Grocery downtown?

I was driving home to enjoy lunch and relax for a while before attempting one of those insane amounts of research that one does under several deadlines at once, when I realized that something was different on my drive. Driving down 2nd Avenue North, I looked to the right side as always to see if progress had been made on Torme’s Associated Grocers. Torme’s is the grocery store closest to my loft, however we almost never get a chance to go there because of their current hours. At first glance, it seems normal.

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