Comments on: Santa Rosa planners OK Coddingtown Target store

By: Chuck G

Chuck G — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:27:25 +0000

Just another box store in a dumpy area. More crime for a crime riddled area.

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By: Chuck G

Chuck G — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:44:52 +0000

Bottom line, no one likes to shop here anymore. Codding Town has survived the last 5 years on a prayer. Where else can you go and smell like cigarette smoke because you walked in one of the many entrances to the stores and passed through smoke rings blown by the employees who take their breaks outside. The scenery is awful, the parking lots broken down, and just not the greatest place to enjoy a shopping experience. I’ll pass thank you.

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By: Richard Martin

Richard Martin — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:31:17 +0000

Most Target jobs are less than 16 hours a week pay no benefits and are very low pay. $9.00 an hr take it or leave it policy of the compamy Brass. Their motto is partially pay less and they mean it when they are evaluating their employees. More than half of the local Target employees have not had a pay raise in the past three years.

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By: MOCKINGBIRD

MOCKINGBIRD — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:59:58 +0000

I’m going way back, but I remember when Coddingtown was an open air mall. I loved going there. On rainy or overcast days I could really smell the caramel and the popcorn which beckoned me to come hither and enjoy. I couldn’t resist. I still miss that caramel corn shop.

Hey, that’s a idea! Make the mall smell delicious again and people will come.

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By: MOCKINGBIRD

MOCKINGBIRD — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:54:21 +0000

I have to say I love that new Whole Foods grocery. It’s really a trip in there.

But another Target? Please say it isn’t true! And will our tax money help SIMON build it so SIMON won’t have to spend their billions? Just wondering.

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By: Canthisbe

Canthisbe — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 05:31:37 +0000

“Marty Bennett, co-chair of the Living Wage Coalition of Sonoma County, spoke against the project. He claimed it would create 200 “low-wage jobs,” most with no health benefits. He urged the city to complete a community impact report on the project”.

How many jobs does the Living Wage Coalition provide and what do they pay their empolyee(s)?

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By: Barak Obama

Barak Obama — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:29:55 +0000

Good job Richard!! As a far left liberal my job was to ruin the American economy and take jobs away from people. Lets put in more parks instead!!

We dont need jobs and businesses anymore, The goal is to make a socialist state.

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By: Richard James Emory

Richard James Emory — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 13:35:15 +0000

Coddington needs to be demolished. Large malls like this are dinasours as evidenced by the store front vacancies in the mall.

It glory days of the 1960′s are not coming back. Between Penneys and Macys there is a vast wasteland of junk shops, store fronts that have been vacant for years, a Korean massage parlor and little else.

Even Macys uses this place to off load the goods it can’t sell at other Macy stores.

It time to start anew with fresh ideas and maybe a public park would fit into the space nicely.

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By: Grapevines

Grapevines — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:54:20 +0000

Lure Nordstrom’s to Coddingtown?? The place is dying, when was the last time you were in there? There’s no way Coddingtown is going to lure Nordstrom’s in there. They’d be lucky to get a Wally-mart.

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By: Steveguy

Steveguy — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 20:51:49 +0000

Target is perfect. The people that live in the stack and pack housing envisioned, you know, for the thousands of SMART Train commuters that have jobs in Marin County !

Oh wait, Marin County doesn’t want more jobs, and if attempted, they sue.

‘Targeted’ growth, with a vision that has never worked. Maybe the Windsor apartment folks can commute to Coddingtown for jobs, and vice-versa. Ohh, the Rohnert Park train commuters and the Petaluma ones need jobs too ! They can just work at each others ‘transit-oriented communities’. Umm, wait, what’s in this Kool-Aid ? Oh my

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By: sports fan

sports fan — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:16:24 +0000

Since Coddingtown can’t lure Nordstrom north to Wine Country, a Target must better fit the demographics! Looks like I will continue to head south to shop.

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By: Old Timer

Old Timer — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 18:23:21 +0000

Loved it when it was Liberty House!

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