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Membership Update

Your membership dues allow the NCPNA to host our January Annual Meeting Dinner, provide materials to implement and promote our 5-6 special events and other monthly programs, support the flag program and keep the neighborhood informed about all of our activities, especially our crime watch/public safety and other city news and developments.

Our volunteer flag placement team makes it possible for us to offer the combined membership and flag placement for $65 which is a savings of $10 for members. Membership alone is $25.

Book Club

We had a great first meeting of the year! Many members missed due to sickness this month, but we still enjoyed the discussion of the young adult science fiction read, Skyward by Brandon Sanderson, chosen by Julie Cogdill. Newcomers and long-time loyalists to the sci-fi genre had fun. Young adult books may make more of an appearance in our book club as the fun, quick read was a hit!

Looking ahead to February, we have the author of On a Quiet Street, Seraphina Nova Glass, joining us for our meeting thanks to Linda Vaughn! This is a book club you will NOT want to miss! Join us Saturday 2/24 from 1-3pm at Hannah Spate’s home whether you’ve read the book or not.

If you’d like to get on our book club list, please email: spateshannah@gmail.com. Happy Reading!

On Feb. 7^th the owner/developer, broker, and general contractor for the property at 201 South Plano Road (the old Sears building) had an open house outside in front of the old Sears Building.

Several residents from NCPNA went in addition to residents from the other neighborhoods in East Richardson. There were about 300 people in attendance. 

The developer/broker were not prepared for the size of crowd.  They had only 15 brochures to hand out, no speaker system, and no posters or diagrams other than what was in the brochure.

The plan is to place a Japanese Grocery store, AEON (https://www.welcome-aeon.com/) in the back of the building.  It will be the first of the chain outside of Asia.  According to the developer, the store will not just carry Japanese food, however, they expect people to come a long distance to the store.  They claimed it would be on the level of Sprouts or maybe Whole foods.  The stores in the AEON chain in the Asia are department stores that sell food, household goods, clothing and other items.  Similar to a Super Target.  However, the one in Richardson, they said, will only have groceries. 

They plan to have a few smaller stores and eateries (such as a Panera).  It was not clear whether these places would be in the AEON or under the roof but outside the store.

They do not have all the permits cleared yet.  The city has some improvements to safety and traffic access they need to make first.

They were not able to work out an arrangement with Sprouts, Whole Foods, or HEB.