Local News: Astoria City Council denies Grocery Outlet store

Local News: Astoria City Council denies Grocery Outlet store A discount grocery store proposed for Astoria’s east end was on the agenda Monday night at the council meeting. Joanne Rideout reports. The Grocery Outlet store proposal for the Astoria Mill Pond neighborhood hit a big roadblock at last night’s city council meeting.  After almost two hours of discussion, the council voted tentatively to deny the project, by upholding a previous denial issued by the Astoria Design Review Commission. There were numerous areas the council was asked to weigh in on, all of them related to design and orientation of the...