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At a party tonight, a friend of the host involved in the development industry (not Stan Pate, he's a bit above you social range) told me that Whole Foods is one of the tenants at City Center - that new mixed-use development going up where Woods Square was before the April 2011 tornado. I was too absent-minded to discuss it with him further - I wish I had. Whole Foods isn't in any other city in Alabama other than Birmingham. Seems odd that would choose Tuscaloosa a second location in Alabama - UA or no UA - no student has THAT much of daddy's money to spend on groceries.

Meanwhile, the only thing that's happened at McFarland Mall - which was supposed to have made major progress towards its redevelopment as Encore Tuscaloosa - is the construction of a Cheddar's.