On the loss of Metropolitan Market:

Way to go “Dreadful Way.” We’re losing perhaps one of the only venues of class and distinction in this boring, un-inspired hamlet of 85,000.

As a lifelong resident of “Funeral Way,” I’ve watched this community grow, with visions like Weyerhaeuser’s West Campus, a “planned community” and niceties such as automated street lights and decent utilities to make it a comfortable place to call home. However, the soul of a community rests with what it has to offer its residents in terms of shopping, eateries and entertainment (we’re not talking karaoke here).

The loss of Metropolitan Market was probably predictable given the abundance of strip malls, chain restaurants and arguably the worst mall in the state (“The Commoms” — 40 percent vacant, 60 percent flea market). And the WTF fact that Federal Way can support not one, but two Wal-Marts.

People, wake up! Furthermore, insist of your city leaders that they do more to encourage and lure decent enterprises to set up shop here, and patronize the little guys as they continue to drop like flies. We made this town what it is and have only ourselves to blame for its demise.

Paul Kroeger, Federal Way