Nowadays, the only time the Green Valley Shopping Center in Danville gets filled up with cars is during lunchtime…when everyone’s headed to Taco Bell.

Business has been floundering ever since Albertson’s, the center’s anchor tenant, closed down during the summer of 2006. Neighboring shops have experienced a 10 percent decline in profit since then and they would all welcome a new addition to bring customers back to the area.

A doughnut shop, thrift store, dry cleaner, Chinese restaurant and hair salon currently fill up rest of the shopping center, but there have been rumors floating around that either a Longs Drugs or British grocery store could fill up the vacant lot.

Longs has inquired about only opening up a pharmacy but hasn’t filed an application with the city. Fresh and Easy, a grocery chain from the UK, is beginning to pop up in the Southern California area and looks to do the same up north.

- Joseph Natividad