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re: RIP Highland Coffees
Posted on 9/29/14 at 9:33 am to GaryMyMan
Posted on 9/29/14 at 9:33 am to GaryMyMan
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Louie's will be an IHOP in a couple more years.
Louie's is moving where Wendy's used to be. I doubt if Louie's will ever involuntarily go out of business.
Highland Coffees should move onto State Street (old Louie's).
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Posted on 9/29/14 at 9:34 am to Teddy Ruxpin
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This isn't as good of a compliment as it should be. NG is embarrassing for a school of our caliber.
The linchpin Buffalo Wild Wings is so fitting.
Posted on 9/29/14 at 9:36 am to Red Stick Tigress
I understand that Northgate was, until very recently, utter shite. Why can't the city step in to make sure we see the area develop with personality, rather than a bunch of 5 Guys and smoothie places?
There's no reason we can't have a bar/shopping district with character.
ETA: I'm talking about the barbed wire fence days. Other cities are seeing a renaissance of gentrification spurred by intelligent zoning/urban planning. I don't want to start a St. George debate in this thread, but there must be SOMEONE in the BR/LSU community who can step up and make sure the area directly abutting our campus turns into something we can be proud of, rather than a strip mall.
There's no reason we can't have a bar/shopping district with character.
ETA: I'm talking about the barbed wire fence days. Other cities are seeing a renaissance of gentrification spurred by intelligent zoning/urban planning. I don't want to start a St. George debate in this thread, but there must be SOMEONE in the BR/LSU community who can step up and make sure the area directly abutting our campus turns into something we can be proud of, rather than a strip mall.
This post was edited on 9/29/14 at 9:40 am
Posted on 9/29/14 at 9:39 am to Acadien
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Why can't the city step in to make sure we see the area develop with personality, rather than a bunch of 5 Guys and smoothie places?
I don't think you can discriminate against a business who wants to open in a particular location like Northgate (unless it was something like a strip club that violated a city ordinance or something...)
This post was edited on 9/29/14 at 9:40 am
Posted on 9/29/14 at 9:39 am to Teddy Ruxpin
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This isn't as good of a compliment as it should be. NG is embarrassing for a school of our caliber
1) LSU has no caliber...it's ego is really inflated. All of the cool ideas it gets is from other schools. There's not really one original tradition that LSU has...
2)It's a suitcase campus that thrives during football season and is desolate for the remainder of the year. You're not going to have any traditions off campus when your community is like that.
3) They've done a really good job building up that part of campus over the past few years.
Posted on 9/29/14 at 9:40 am to GaryMyMan
locals-recall-chimes-street-music-scene/
Bayou, the Library, the Ghetto, Gate 7, Ichabod's, etc...
Now we have a pizza place, a bank, CVS, etc.
Money talks, BS walks
Bayou, the Library, the Ghetto, Gate 7, Ichabod's, etc...
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During the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, Brumfield said the Chimes Street area, including State Street and Carlotta Street, thrived.
“It was close to campus and all within walking distance,” he said. “The vibe was there, and we just lost it one piece at a time.”
Brumfield said the 1997 binge-drinking death of Sigma Alpha Epsilon pledge Benjamin Wynne and the subsequent closure of Murphy’s, the bar at which he drank that night, affected the scene indirectly as the North Gate area changed dramatically.
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Empire Grill opened and closed in the vacancy Murphy’s left behind.
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As I drove down State Street, I saw the flames from the backside.”
Catledge, along with many members of the local music community, watched The Bayou, a Chimes Street venue and local original music haven, burn that Sunday morning.
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Patrick Johnson, bassist and backup vocalist for Poor Harvey, said the local music scene was at its peak before the building burned. He said because The Bayou and Ichabod’s were next door to each other, there was always friendly competition between the local bands playing there. “If you didn’t like one band, you could walk over to the other one next door or you could pay cover for both places and walk back and forth,” he said.
Now we have a pizza place, a bank, CVS, etc.
Money talks, BS walks
This post was edited on 9/29/14 at 9:44 am
Posted on 9/29/14 at 9:40 am to Acadien
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I understand that Northgate was, until very recently, utter shite. Why can't the city step in to make sure we see the area develop with personality, rather than a bunch of 5 Guys and smoothie places?
There's no reason we can't have a bar/shopping district with character.
We're trying to do that on government, but catching resistance from Denham fricks who don't want their "shortcut" home taken away.
Posted on 9/29/14 at 9:40 am to Pectus
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1) LSU has no caliber...it's ego is really inflated. All of the cool ideas it gets is from other schools. There's not really one original tradition that LSU has...
Don't bite.
Posted on 9/29/14 at 9:42 am to Acadien
It's a state school.
What do you expect.
Texas A&M has more stuff to do surrounding its small campus and more tradition than LSU could hope for, but you never hear LSU and A&M in the same conversation for these kinds of things.
What do you expect.
Texas A&M has more stuff to do surrounding its small campus and more tradition than LSU could hope for, but you never hear LSU and A&M in the same conversation for these kinds of things.
Posted on 9/29/14 at 9:44 am to Acadien
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The only way the owner could redeem this decision is by turning the existing building into a bar.
The owner owns all of that side of highland and hasn't changed it yet. Why would he change it now just because Clark couldn't make good on the rent. Good I hated that prick.
Posted on 9/29/14 at 9:45 am to dgnx6
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The owner owns all of that side of highland and hasn't changed it yet. Why would he change it now just because Clark couldn't make good on the rent. Good I hated that prick.
Pretty sure he can pay the rent, he just doesn't want to.
Posted on 9/29/14 at 9:46 am to Acadien
I hope they move to another location nearby.
That really sucks.
That really sucks.
Posted on 9/29/14 at 9:47 am to dgnx6
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The owner owns all of that side of highland and hasn't changed it yet
besides putting in a crappy chain burger place and crappy chain burrito place?
Posted on 9/29/14 at 9:47 am to Acadien
It sucks that this place is closing after being open for so long, but I've never really understood the appeal to coffee shops
Posted on 9/29/14 at 9:47 am to Pectus
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All of the cool ideas it gets is from other schools. There's not really one original tradition that LSU has...
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It's a suitcase campus that thrives during football season and is desolate for the remainder of the year
I've always said "LSU is a football business with a university attached."
Posted on 9/29/14 at 9:47 am to Pectus
Ever been to Rices campus?
So beautiful,so many things to do.
So beautiful,so many things to do.
Posted on 9/29/14 at 9:48 am to Pectus
Yes, the lsu off campus area is depressingly bad. You have a two block area at the north gate filled with chain restaurants adjacent to a sprawling ghetto, and a bunch of shitty bars and cow pastures on the south side.
Bummer about highland coffees..I really liked that place when I was at LSU.
Bummer about highland coffees..I really liked that place when I was at LSU.
Posted on 9/29/14 at 9:48 am to Cap Crunch
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but I've never really understood the appeal to coffee shops
Writers need a place to be seen "working"
Posted on 9/29/14 at 9:48 am to Acadien
The owner was a real idiot. Nice enough guy, but had no interest in making money. It was bizarre.
Posted on 9/29/14 at 9:49 am to REG861
Derp? It's true.
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