[JMatt88]

Amen!

I feel the development proposed was both economically unrealistic as well as much more than what the community wanted.

Lest we forget there was a very decent one/two storey building here with a grocery store and coffee shop that was torn down because someone was eager to make tons of money of a huge new project.

The people in the area are trying to replace what was needlessly lost a decade or so ago. IMO, it should have never been torn down on some pie in the sky fantasy until they developers got their act together.

 

[SarcasticMarmot]

I feel the development proposed was both economically unrealistic as well as much more than what the community wanted.

Lest we forget there was a very decent one/two storey building here with a grocery store and coffee shop that was torn down because someone was eager to make tons of money of a huge new project.

The people in the area are trying to replace what was needlessly lost a decade or so ago. IMO, it should have never been torn down on some pie in the sky fantasy until they developers got their act together.

As I understand it, the owner of the grocery store and building was running out of personal commitment and it wasn't particularly financially successful. When he died there was no realistic way the kids were going to keep it going. I very much understand why the community would want it to continue, but as everyone keeps telling me when I criticize the cost of commercial real estate, that's not a fair expectation of the business.

 

[David A]

As I understand it, the owner of the grocery store and building was running out of personal commitment and it wasn't particularly financially successful. When he died there was no realistic way the kids were going to keep it going. I very much understand why the community would want it to continue, but as everyone keeps telling me when I criticize the cost of commercial real estate, that's not a fair expectation of the business.

Despite the ownership issues, it probably would have been much easier to fill it as old affordable commercial space rather than an unrealistic plan of replacing it (or in this case not replacing it) with something new and probably not as affordable, but people who didn't really know what they were doing got too ambitious.

So at this point we have nothing but a big useless empty lot which benefits no one. So think twice before tearing down older useful buildings! How many times does this have to happen before we start to figure it out?