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re: Trader Joe's too snazzy for one Portland neighborhood
Posted on 2/7/14 at 7:04 pm to notiger1997
Posted on 2/7/14 at 7:04 pm to notiger1997
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You try to hard to be the rebel hold out man. Not funny any more. The Whole Foods in N.O. took the place of a Schwagmans that had been vacant forever. Thank god the locals aren't holding out on the culture activist to get them a store. I get your point a little, but there is a thin line in these situations. You take what you can get in the beginning.
Just one more chain man... One more. I say hand the French Quarter over to Cotsco.
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Posted on 2/7/14 at 7:04 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Probably more check cashing/convenience type stores.
Mike probably ownes a local franchise of this kind of store and fried chicken shacks. It's local bitch, support it.
Posted on 2/7/14 at 7:06 pm to Mike da Tigah
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One more. I say hand the French Quarter over to Cotsco.
Maybe your friend that owns the t shirt and daquirie shop market in the quarter can open another shop.
The french quarter is not a struggling area begging for any kind of commerce. I would expect someone with common sense to understand that.
Posted on 2/7/14 at 7:08 pm to Mike da Tigah
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Just one more chain man.
so a vacant building is better than a chain?
yes or no
Posted on 2/7/14 at 7:08 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Probably more check cashing/convenience type stores.
That's what happens to those chain stores when the community no longer serves their interests and they're through sucking on its tit.
Posted on 2/7/14 at 7:10 pm to SlowFlowPro
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o a vacant building is better than a chain?
It's not even the idea of a vacant building. It's a whole neighborhood of rotting houses and buildings that hasn't had shite for new investments in several years. The extreme Mike side says to hold out for the local folks. It isn't like waving a magic wand and fixing a rotting hood.
And just because you let a few chains in, doesn't mean you have to allow the area to turn into north Dallas either.
This post was edited on 2/7/14 at 7:13 pm
Posted on 2/7/14 at 7:12 pm to notiger1997
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Maybe your friend that owns the t shirt and daquirie shop market in the quarter can open another shop.
The french quarter is not a struggling area begging for any kind of commerce. I would expect someone with common sense to understand that.
Let's turn it into a Dave and Busters amusement park. frick it man, you gotta think big.
Genuine Cajun Buffalo Wings for the first 100 visitors every day.
We could turn Jax into a Pepsi water slide.
This post was edited on 2/7/14 at 7:15 pm
Posted on 2/7/14 at 7:14 pm to Mike da Tigah
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so a vacant building is better than a chain?
Posted on 2/7/14 at 7:17 pm to Mike da Tigah
I hope that shite you are smoking is at least affordable because it really is messing with your brain
Posted on 2/7/14 at 7:17 pm to SlowFlowPro
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so a vacant building is better than a chain?
I don't know. How many vacant chain buildings litter Airline and Florida these days. How about those sexy strip malls?
Not so shiny anymore huh?
The old strip mall,
well she ain't what she used to be,
ain't what she used to be,
ain't what she used to be.
This post was edited on 2/7/14 at 7:19 pm
Posted on 2/7/14 at 7:18 pm to Mike da Tigah
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I don't know.
it's a simple question. only a mentally challenged person can't answer it with a yes or no
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so a vacant building is better than a chain?
Posted on 2/7/14 at 7:19 pm to Mike da Tigah
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How about those sexy strip malls?
Strips malls are economic development. Vacant buildings are rat infested crime labs. WHile you may dislike strip malls, they actually are doing something to stimulate the economy, and providing jobs.
Posted on 2/7/14 at 7:22 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Strips malls are economic development. Vacant buildings are rat infested crime labs. WHile you may dislike strip malls, they actually are doing something to stimulate the economy, and providing jobs.
It's a pattern of retarded thinking, lack of planning, zoning, and building code development. When the shiny gets nasty, nobody wants to live next to the old tent city, when there's a new tent city down the road that is sparkling.
Cities exodus, and some call it growth. I like to call it relocation.
Posted on 2/7/14 at 7:27 pm to Mike da Tigah
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lack of planning, zoning, and building code development
good ole government-forced culture
Posted on 2/7/14 at 7:38 pm to SlowFlowPro
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good ole government-forced culture
When the Government is elected by the people though, isn't that really the reflection? It's kind of like litter and graffiti everywhere, fences falling down, cars parked on lawns, etc. Surely the gremlins don't do that to us at night. We allow it, and even vote for it to continue.
Posted on 2/7/14 at 8:11 pm to Easy
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Trader joes does NOT open stores in the ghetto
They just opened one in Baton Rouge, so your facts are not correct
Posted on 2/7/14 at 8:28 pm to Geauxld Finger
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they do not accept government assistance cards as well.
Is this true?
Posted on 2/7/14 at 8:36 pm to Mike da Tigah
Just to be completely clear on this. And the OP should change his title. Its not the neighborhood that doesn't want them to build. Its the race hustlers as usual.
Posted on 2/7/14 at 8:55 pm to Mike da Tigah
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It's a pattern of retarded thinking, lack of planning, zoning, and building code development
Maybe, but in the ghetto or poor towns, strip malls are about all that can be afforded. You can't build new mixed multi story development in densely packed boundaries overnight. It's an evolution. You seem to think no development and rotting buildings are preferable to economic development that bothers your sensibilities.
Posted on 2/7/14 at 8:59 pm to RogerTheShrubber
You typed think. Mike doesn't think. He just types his pre programmed responses
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