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Contributed by: John Eisel/YourHub.com on 10/1/2007

THORNTON - Jan Bach loved Rancho Liborio when she happened upon one of the supermarkets while visiting Las Vegas. And that was before she found out one of their stores would be built as part of a redevelopment project at the old Northland Shopping Center at the southeast corner of 88th Street and Washington Avenue.

"This store would help move out the the pride and passion to the homeowners in that whole area, as well as the renters and condominium folk," said Bach, a councilwoman for Ward I, which encompasses southern Thornton.

The Thornton Development Authority recently sold the land at 88th And Washington to Minnesota-based United Properties, with groundbreaking of a new retail center on Oct. 2.

"We chose it because, obviously, it was an excellent site for redevelopment," said Anthony Trujillo, co-owner of the Colorado branch of Rancho Liborio Markets. "It's in a position of very good demographics in terms of community and we felt it would support a grocery store."

The Albertsons store north of the planned shopping center closed in 2006.

Trujillo, who was involved with planning and negotiations from the beginning, said Rancho Liborio has stores in Aurora, Commerce City and Westminster. Those Colorado stores were built out of existing buildings. This will be the first time a building will be constructed specifically for Rancho Liborio. He said they plan to have five up by the end of 2008 and eight in the state eventually.

Trujillo said Rancho Liborio will carry products from Hispanic and Latin American countries from produce to baked goods to retail products that other supermarkets don't.

"A lot of these companies may not have the knowledge of the Latino consumer," Trujillo said. "But we have a substantial amount of non-Latino customers."

The 90,000 square-foot Rancho Liborio will anchor the 13.4-acre retail center, which will be called "Plaza Las Americas."

The center will have a plaza in the front which will include a fountain, gazebos and a staging area.

Bach said she hopes this will help unite the people in the area.

"They'll have an area when they come together and get to know each other," she said. "Right now, they're not connected to each other and they don't have that opportunity."

Trujillo said the plaza will host fiestas and festive activities, as well have food classes and exhibits.

"We'll try to really express the Latino culture to the community," he said.

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" Original Thornton residents have been waiting for many years for neighborhood retail to be built there. The south Washington St. area in Thornton has had one grocery store (Safeway) move north to Thornton Parkway and Washington. And, Albertsons closed in the Original Thornton Shopping Center also. This new development will give folks who live in Original Thornton another opportunity to shop close to home. This retail opportunity will be good for our citizen's and good for the re-development of the Washington/88th Ave corner."
-Steve Lebsock, Thornton City Councilman, Ward I

"I am so happy I could pop. It is going to help revitalize the whole area. It will have a common welcome area where homeowners can congregate together to rebuild those relationships that have been lost the last 20 years. The whole style of the market, in my opinion is very 21st century. You'll have fresh meat, fresh produce. You'll have all the latin American communities represented. It's very user-friendly and inviting.There will be plenty of storefronts for entrepreneurs to have their local businesses and it will be in walking distance. That corner has been waiting for 25 years to get a flower to blossom and I think Liborios will be an outstanding addition to Ward I."
- Jan Bach, Thornton City Councilman, Ward I

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Submitted By: Kandi Kaiser

posted on 10/14/2007 @ 10:34:55 AM

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I do not feel like we should cater to people from other countries coming into our communities. Society has made it easy for them to live in America while making it tougher on the Americans that were borned and raised here. This should be a retail community for ANYONE living in the neighborhood not one race!

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Submitted By: Lisa Miller

posted on 10/9/2007 @ 4:55:20 PM

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We live in the United States, I do not feel we should conform to people coming here from other countries. They come here for a better life, if we continue conforming, changing our lanuage, our standards we will have to leave our own country for a better life.

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Submitted By: Nicole Brown

posted on 10/4/2007 @ 4:42:06 PM

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I am excited to have an additional shopping center close by, however, I am dissapointed that it is not a non-race oriented shopping center! Why gear it to one race when we have so many races here in Colorado? I would much rather see an "American" store that sells all of the different heritage's speciality foods then just one heritage represented! Isn't that what America is all about - joining ALL types of people??

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