We don’t need another Walgren in the Edmonds area. We have Bartels and also
we don’t need another bank with another bank next door. Our development committee can find other businesses for the area than repeating the ones we already have.

Robinhood Lanes is one of the last family hangouts. My kids have bowled league there on Saturday mornings for years and my husband and I bowl there as well. We have been to many birthday parties and community gatherings there as well. Another Walgreens? Really? How many drug stores do we need?

@Ryan, its not really a petition, more a poll of the Edmonds community to see what they want. Feel free to stop by Robinhood Lanes this week and sign your name! Also, you can show support by joining our facebook page “Robinhood Lanes against Walgreens”. Just send a friend request there and I will add you! Great comment by D. Moran, our Edmonds development committee needs to know what our community wants and doesn’t want. We should have a say :).

There are very few bowling allies left in the entire Tacoma/Seattle/Everett area!! We do NOT need another drug store. Bartell’s around the corner is not overly busy. We really don’t want or need another drug store that close. Robin Hood Lanes is an Edmonds institution!! It has a lot of Edmonds history. Keep it!!

ahh, I dont want it to close! Dont need another drugstore!!

Robinhood Lanes must stay. Mike, Tim, Terry, Charlie, and the rest of the Robinhood’s merry men run a great family sports center. I started bowling in leagues in 1969 and love the sport of bowling as competition and recreation. Unlike other bowling venues, the Robinhood crew dress the lanes and keep it simple. Bartell’s is just across the street and Walgreens is unwanted and unnecessary. Yes to families and better bowling, and NO to redundant drugstores. Walgreens need to line their pockets elsewhere.

Robinhood Lanes has been a wonderful Edmonds landmark and a supportive member of the community. Unfortunately, bowling isn’t as popular as it used to be and I can understand why there would be financial pressure to find another use for the property, but do we really need another drug store? If they absolutely have to replace the bowing venue with something else, why not a hardware store? Everyone I talked with was extremely disappointed when Ace had to close. Barring that, I hope there’s a way to save this landmark as a family friendly hangout.

The only way to keep the bowling alley open is to give them more business. Bowling alleys have probably seen a decline in bowlers. No matter how many petitions or polls you sign, if you don’t actually bowl there, then it means nothing. I’m not trying to be a jerk. It’s just how business works.

So show your support for Robin Hood Lanes and go bowling!

I’ve lived in Edmonds most of my life, graduated from Edmonds-Woodway (where I met my wife), and have recently purchased our first home in the Westgate Neighborhood. It would be fair to say that I’m rooted deep in this community. A community I fear is being steered in the wrong direction.

Edmonds has a charm that can’t be recreated (see Mill Creek Town center). We’re a classic little town with traditions, amazing views, wonderful restaurants, and true down town full of fantastic family run shops/boutiques. It was sad to see the iconic Mill Town “Revamped” and now sits mostly empty.

Now, the historic Robin Hood Lanes is in jeopardy being replaced by of all things another bank and another drug store. This couldn’t be more tragic. Robin Hood Lanes is a strong-well established part of our community. It provides a safe place for teens to gather, birthday parties for children, leagues for seniors, and one more thing that makes Edmonds, Edmonds.

We all know what “An Edmonds Kind of Day” means. But how much longer will it be until “An Edmonds Kind of Day” will become “An Edmonds Kind of Day to Go To the Bank and Drug Store Because There’s Nothing Left To Do In A Now Charmless Town?” I won’t be buying that bumper sticker. I also won’t be buying this garbage about business development. There is not a need or niche for another Drug store or Bank, so to allow more to enter would be pointless. It drives no more taxes for our city. People will buy their hair color no matter what; an additional Walgreens does not create a new demand for drug store products.

I hope that the powers that be can pull their head out of the fog and get some real clarity. For the sake of our Edmonds, let us all hope they deny the permits to build a Walgreens.

My wife and I just put an offer on a house in the Sherwood Forest neighborhood. One of the things we thought was charming about it was the Robin Hood bowling lanes!

Hope it gets to stay.

#16 & #22.
OK guys I’m on it. My wife Mindy and I are going bowling tonight at Robinhood lanes for the first time. While I don’t think Walgreens is a good idea in that location the truth is that if the zoning allows it and the seller wants to sell their is very little we the public can do about it. The city cannot withhold a permit if all the conditions are met by the applicant.
If enough residents signed a petition notifying Walgreens that we will not shop their we may be able to scare them off. That’s the approach that has a chance.Where do I sign.