It's the coffee talking
Well, I don't know about you, but the best thing to happen to downtown Victoria would be a grocery store downtown. Would traffic be messier, snarlier, forcing people to (gasp) walk more than a half block in any one direction?

Yes. You might actually see your neighbors and local council people and meet new people in your downtown and actually start enjoying the experience of small town living. You might actually take a moment or two to notice that the downtown has come along quite nicely in the past five years. Still, the major engine of commerce is still missing--I feel bad for Parker Tannin's Wine shop...if only owner Ryan Dussault could have hung on a little longer, until a grocery could create downtown traffic and vitality.

A grocery store which in my hometown was our "community center." Catholics, Lutherans, mixed it up, the farm folks came into town for groceries, the post office, the local hardware store, the drugstore, the town kids including me had a place to hang out (next to the pop machine and telephone booth). It was a place to see and be seen.

And, I can't help but think that the increased traffic will force the issue of improving Highway 5 past Chanhassen and Highway 41.