Not one to spread rumors but Mr. 144 was just driving through town and called to say they were removing equipment from Coldstones and he thought the menu boards were down....
Is it going? I still have a gift card for the little 144s in my bag.
The little 144s have been to All Aboard with some grandparents. They liked it, even though middle 144 was a bit long in the tooth for the experience. From what I am told about the place it may do well here with the pre-school - early elementary crowd.
Originally posted by dl144: . . . the pre-school - early elementary crowd.
This demographic has unlimited funding and lots of spare time to spend on whatever they choo choose.
I recall a few years when the money we needed to spend on other children's birthday gifts was reaching the point of becoming a line item in the family annual budget. Seriously.
Originally posted by David St. Hubbins: God our town sucks.
So right you are.
It is amazing how we have such a great place re: residential housing and people and such an absolutely putrid, disgusting and horrific business district and business plan. Don't worry though, it's just cyclical.
I used to think it was kind of funny...now it just makes me mad.
It makes me sad. I really do feel for the people who have invested their energy and money into a business in the CBD and I try to support them with our business. Think of AliKat, Georgia Rae and the restaurants that we have available. Of course there are others, but it is getting really depressing to walk down the street past empty storefronts and say, "Remember when that store was there . . . ?"
What will the real estate ads say? "Close to train and plenty of parking, so you don't have to walk."
And what's even stranger is that I swear the place had a help wanted sign on the door not three weeks ago.
It's so sad. I loved going there - it felt very home-town ice cream store-like, even though it was a chain. It was always packed in the summer - weeknights and weekends.
Posts: 304 | Location: Glen Ellyn, IL | Registered: February 26, 2007
I never ate Cold Stone - way too rich - way too much - way too expensive. Give me a small cone from Dairy Queen anytime....or a single scoop of Oberweiss.
I absolutely believe we can have a successful downtown with the right mix of stores. The deal is we need businesses that more people will use more frequently. And we need to do more to publicize our town in surrounding burbs or other burbs on the train line.
"The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith. " -Bertrand Russell V. Delong
Posts: 3066 | Location: Glen Ellyn, IL | Registered: April 04, 2003
But I would think an ice cream store would be exactly the kind of business that people WOULD visit frequently.
If the train restaurant rumor is true, and I know Go Downtown was pushing the space where the toy store was on Crescent and Park for this concept, then that's great. I agree that it should do just fine in our community full of small children, but I would say the same thing about an ice cream store, so who knows?
It certainly doesn't bode well for the collar and leash store set to open kitty corner from Coldstone.
Posts: 304 | Location: Glen Ellyn, IL | Registered: February 26, 2007
Let's see, what does our downtown have to offer families? Let me think.......think...think...think... Oh yes, now I know 1) schizos 2) a hooker 3) public urination 4) public defecation 5) public intoxication 6) panhandling and 7) public indecency.
Yes! I want to bring my small children to our CBD.
"You shouldn't soil your Sunday pants, like those other foolish ants."
Originally posted by Mamattorney: But I would think an ice cream store would be exactly the kind of business that people WOULD visit frequently.
If the train restaurant rumor is true, and I know Go Downtown was pushing the space where the toy store was on Crescent and Park for this concept, then that's great. I agree that it should do just fine in our community full of small children, but I would say the same thing about an ice cream store, so who knows?
It certainly doesn't bode well for the collar and leash store set to open kitty corner from Coldstone.
The former toy store is a new dentist office (if we are talking about the same thing)
