KEEP THE WOODBRIDGE VILLAGE CENTER, IRVINE!
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Enough is enough Irvine Company. Please allow us to keep some of the charm. You have made enough money in this town. Stop with the building already. Spend some money on your outdated shopping centers , so you can keep your tenants in and attract new ones.
Redmond, Wa had a great example of a family friendly community mall. Crossroads Redmond. Perfect place to visit on into the evening with little kids on up. So many ways we were drawn there and lingered ...1/2 priced book store, coffee shop, remote library, live entertainment, public market restaurants(diverse authentic ethnic foods), cheaper version of color me mine, candy/snack store, coin operated ride-ons, games store hosting board/card games, Hallmark, Old Navy, Party City, Bed Bath. Irvine needs a small walkable place where kids/tweens are safe to practice some independence and or money matters within parents view. They had staffed remote community police office with pamphlets on all topics of safety. We had so many family meet ups there. Grandparents easily roamed with grandchildren allowing parents to steal date moments. I popped back on their website and it looks greatly expanded from 2006. I'm very pro community after growing up with early Bay Area nostalgia and then having lived and traveled around the world. We are all displaced from our families or original towns where we grew up. A place to feel connected with other people is what a community center builds. I wondered if naturally friendly people congregate there or do you become friendlier there?
Time to save AND revitalize the Woodbridge Center. With room for a grocery store, coffee house and small shops in between, there is no reason to tear it down and add tacky apartments to our beautiful neighborhood.
Thank you,
Tina
When our two children were little, we practically lived at the Woodbridge Family Center -- dance, tae kwon do, piano, art, Ruby's every Tuesday, haircuts, Barnes and Noble..... you get the picture. We have watched the center deteriorate as the Irvine Company forced businesses out by raising the rent, preferring to have spots, such as Chevy's, empty for years, waiting for another "desirable" medical practice to move in, instead of allowing the small business tenants to stay. Ten years later, despite the attrition of our family favorites, we are still there at once to twice per week! This is the true center and heart of Irvine, where families gather and minds and bodies are enriched. Let's work on revitalizing this center and the soul of Irvine!
they first built the Woodbridge shopping centre!
This is a iconic site that makes Woodbridge special!
from a beautifully planned city to a congested, polluted and unplanned
development of ugly apartments and businesses. Gone are wonderful
restaurants such as The Waters because the Irvine Company keeps increasing the rents. They're being replaced by pizza parlors and other take-outs. If this unplanned development keeps on, we are on the verge of losing our status as one of the safest places in the county.
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I too raised my children in Woodbridge. Now my grandchildren walk from my home to the Center. What can we do to revitalize the "soul of Irvine"?
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I agree! Where is our favorite little coffee shop? I want small stores back in our Center.
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Well said. The news on the street is that the Irvine Company is now trying to drive Rubys out. I guess then they can say that it's a ghosttown that needs to go. We will all see through that.
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The Irvine Company is all about money. This petition is not for them at all. This petition is to let the elected politicians and officials of Irvine know how you feel about this issue. With enough support from you, the City of Irvine can shape the actions of the Irvine Company and keep them in line with the values of the citizens of Irvine.