Is a CVS drugstore downtown a big deal or not?

The store’s opening in the downtown development known as CityScape occasioned a big ceremony and something approaching a crowd yesterday, the RailLife blog reports](http://raillife.com/blog/2010/07/27/selling-drugs-on-light-rail/):

So, the big grand opening at the new CityScape CVS Pharmacy was this week and a whole slew of paparazzi, politicians and local folk gathered to celebrate the occasion. It was interesting to talk with some of the people that came to the opening. For the politicians and super-cool movers and shakers it seemed to have the air of “look what we are doing” down here.

The writer, Nick Bastian, goes on to say that he wasn’t impressed (yet), for reasons you can read on his post.

The CVS drug stores out here are, I"ve noticed, oddly clean, spacious, well-lit and friendly. My experience with them in the past has been on the east coast, where they are none of those things, and widely hated as a result.

That said, a place to buy a half-gallon of milk downtown has to be seen as a major landmark—and remember, this is a full half mile south of the Public Market.