The old Figueiredo’s building in McKinleyville — once home to a video store, pizzeria and Mexican restaurant — has been reduced to rubble as a Yuba City construction crew works to transform it into a new CVS store.
The plans have been in motion for a while now, since Dave and Dana Figueiredo sold the building to CVS a couple months back. Paul’s Live from New York Pizza has since closed and is looking to open another Arcata locale. Don Juan’s Mexican Restaurant shuttered its doors in April and hasn’t been heard from since. Figueiredo’s Video moved a few blocks north, opening a new store in the Safeway shopping center. And, this week, the building came down.
CVS, which bought out Lima’s Pharmacy’s McKinleyville location back in April, has yet to officially announce its plans to open the new store.
This article appears in The Importance of Why.
That strip mall was an eyesore from the day it was built, but what a waste to demolish it. This illustrates the problem with a lack of and poor planning.
Now the best corner in town belongs to a big corporation. I think this type of “growth” is overrated and bad for a small town like this in the long run. There’s cities all over the coast. If you don’t like rural communities just move to a city. But if we destroy every rural community in the name of growth eventually there will be nowhere to go to escape the pavement.
Locals caving to corporate money…sad.
Even fuglier!
Apparently CVS found it better to hire people from Yuba City rather than hire locally. Just like Lost Coast Brewery. And McKinleyville really needed another pharmacy………News flash: Walgreens and RiteAid have better prices than CVS. Pass that on and maybe CVS will go broke.
It’s clear someone from the outside was brought in based on the efficiency of the demolition. I can’t blame anyone for bringing in people that can actually get a job done in a normal, non Humboldt, timeline.
I have no issue with better service at lower prices from a corporation rather than apathetic service from Humboldt locals. I compare the pleasant serve I get from Starbucks as opposed to any of the “local” options….
It would be great if locals could learn rather than complain.
Joel–define eyesore–or is that in the eye of the beholder??I got movies there and ate at the resteraunt–It was a functional building–not lovelyb but sturdily built-lots of metal utilized–now part of the rubble to haul away.Duplication-a block away is RiteAid – CVS replaced LONGS,who
started and based in California–To this beholder it was a waste,A mall
is nota single building–not a STRI P MALL-