Whole or Real, how do you like your foods?

I went for a walk around my neighborhood this evening.  It sprinkled a little, but despite that the weather was perfect.

This woman was flying a kite, which looked more like a parachute.  That’s probably why she was throwing it in the air to catch the wind rather than running with it.

Seems to have worked.

Then there’s the requisite “shoes hanging on a power line” shot.

Wholefoods Market has been in business on the north side of Wilmington Street for 5 or 10 years now.

And it seems that Realfoods Market is going to be opening right across the street.

Which brings us back to the title: Which do you think is better; real foods or whole foods?  Or is there even a difference?

Construction Junction, what’s your function?

Some people claim our economy is still struggling, but you can’t prove it by my neighborhood.

There are at least 8 recent construction sites within the 16 square blocks south of my house.  All have been started or finished within the last 9 months.  I went on a walk today and took pictures of all of the 8 I found. (1^st picture is now, the square picture below it is from before, as seen on Google Maps.)

Sugarhouse Rising.

I mentioned the Westminster College construction on this site before.  I’ve also mentioned the “Sugarhole”, the destruction of a set of buildings dating back before the 60’s that made up the core of the Sugarhouse business district.

Now there are 4 different construction sites within 3 square city blocks.  Three of them are showing considerable progress since the old buildings were razed.  The Sugarhole hasn’t changed since the financial crash of 2008.

Kitty-corner from the Westminster construction is this multi-use development, you can see that the work is going on behind the sign.

This is what the Westminster construction is supposed to look like when it is done.

And here it is now.

A block down, on the other side of the street this apartment building is going up.

Here is what it looks like now.

And the theoretical mixed use development that is supposed to fill the Sugarhole.

And what it looks like now.