Times Two for Termini

Twixt that & Busti.

How about I buy a house facing the river and you and I settle our intellectual differences with a curb appeal battle. Lol.

I attended the meeting Wed. night...primarily for the proposed Hertel - Military scrap transfer yard..seems like a good project, already zoned.... and the planned landscaping, completely paved yard, which will keep the dust down, approx 30 jobs, @ living wage and higher, local construction firm Jim's Electric to oversee entire project..Joel Giambra was very candid in answering all the questions put to him, along with the current owner of the property.. $7 million dollar investment is a shot in the arm for this long time drury corner.
Also Rocco presented his plans for the FWS bldg and warehouse on Grote st....and had a positive response from the attendees. Good to see some movement in these areas, that sorely could use improvement. Now if the city can entice the owner of the Hertel / Elmwood vacant corner to sell to some type of commercial development..it would be icing on the cake!

I had a feeling this one would lure you back again, lol

btw - if anyone cares - I'm not at all against the concept Rocco converting these buildings to residential. I don't think I've ever been against any Rocco project regarding the projects themselves, or ever been among those who are 'uncomfortable' with them whatever that might mean (or whoever those unnamed folks might be?)

Did doubt what Chris said about population. Looks like Louis & Trav seemed open minded to my point about that.
(aside to answer Louis' q to me - I've no idea what % of tenants would otherwise insist on living in burbs if this wasn't built. I'm not saying it's 0%, but I think a lot of reasons people choose burbs are preferences in things like more space, less density, perceptions re schools, services, quality of life, crime, etc. Maybe not as much that they can't find nice apts in city, although sometimes for very fussy people it could happen. I'd never say it never happens.
And Meliq - I'm not saying anyone's subjective preferences or perceptions are right or wrong.)

Also kettle/whathave -
On subsidy topic, since you brought that up here…
It will be interesting to see what the reaction from Hoyt's replacement Sean Ryan will be _if_ Rocco asks for 'industrial' IDA funding for either of these. I've been agreeing with Ryan when he's loudly opposed IDA $ given to retailers in districts other than his. Maybe we'll see if he has the same view toward it for residential in his district if it's asked for.

Actually, you're a bit off. There's no adult shop across the street. It's about 1/10 mile north.

Actually, the buildings across the street are pretty cool. The one on the Valu parking lot is a pretty neat building. The Elmwood/Hertel intersection has to have one of the busiest traffic flows in the region.

The fact there aren't thriving businesses here is astounding. I think? Dickies Donuts: vacant. Southwest corner: vacant. Valu plaza: failure in design. NW has smut shop, but I'm partial to Hogan's Heros that used to be there. They had an awesome steak sandwich.

Yeah, I know who it is. Meh. I'd rather eat dog food. But that's neither here nor there. I imagine it is a great location for such an operation. The building looks decrepit. I'd love to know who the owner is and what the hell is going on with it.