[quote=flu]I think that because now we se 85c Bakery and Ding Tai Fung soon to be in UTC, that’s a sign…
The cat is out of the bag, and San Diego has caught on…. I think what we’ll see is certain pockets in San Diego slowly turn into places like Irvine or Diamond Bar, etc.[/quote]
I agree.
Once Irvine got the two Ranch 99 markets within 10 minutes of each other, it has never looked back. Ranch 99 is very conservative, so unless they have the numbers to sustain two stores, they would not have made their move. With the new Balboa store and them keeping the old Clairemont Mesa store open, the floodgate now opens…