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Post by Kyle Mitchell on Jan 19, 2015 12:26:30 GMT -6
majesticmitchell, You are cognizant that ALM is expanding, correct? It seems investors from abroad do not believe our Mayor or City Council are "anti-business". We are doing just fine without you, thanks for all your suggestions though. Best of luck in your new "investments?" elsewhere. g That is great. How many new jobs will the ALM expansion bring? Although every little bit does help, do you think that is going to turn Streator around? I think we should keep working on changes to help bring even much more business here. Without me? What are you talking about? I am still right here with my "investments" in Streator.
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Post by greekgod on Jan 19, 2015 16:21:34 GMT -6
majesticmitchell, You are cognizant that ALM is expanding, correct? It seems investors from abroad do not believe our Mayor or City Council are "anti-business". We are doing just fine without you, thanks for all your suggestions though. Best of luck in your new "investments?" elsewhere. g That is great. How many new jobs will the ALM expansion bring? Although every little bit does help, do you think that is going to turn Streator around? majesticmitchell, Kyle, I am not privy to how many new jobs the ALM expansion will bring into Steator. A foreign Corporation or Company did find our ELECTED Mayor and City Council friendly enough to business to purchase the property where the Delmonte Trailer Park is located. I believe that alone would be a considerable amount of money. Somehow, I think they did their research. Let's take a walk through Streator's business district from East to West and 4 blocks North and South, what do we see? A nursery, a welding supply store, gasoline stations, beauty shops, a retail clothing store, a hardware store, a homemade candy store, plumbing and heating stores, financial planners, a CPA office, stock brokers, Ice Cream drive thru and shop,restaurants, flower shop, appliance shops, drug stores, ethnic food store, tax prepares, optometry offices, medical offices, dental offices, barber shops, banking facilities, savings and loan facilities, furniture stores, a bakery, auto supply store, auto repair shop, glazier, attorney offices, churches, recycling business, grocery store, insurance businesses, garden shop and lawn equipment sale&repair store, tattoo place, print and photocopy store, print and sign design shop, exercise gym, furniture stores, banquet facilities, Fraternal organizations, manufacturers, pizza places, and a few second hand clothing shops. Oh, and a few bar's. Most were here before you arrived, some started after you arrived and some are still moving to Streator. , I thank the Mayor, the City Council, Sacci and the Downtown Business Owner Association for doing all they do to promote business in our City.
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Post by Kyle Mitchell on Jan 19, 2015 17:09:30 GMT -6
That is great. How many new jobs will the ALM expansion bring? Although every little bit does help, do you think that is going to turn Streator around? majesticmitchell, Kyle, I am not privy to how many new jobs the ALM expansion will bring into Steator. A foreign Corporation or Company did find our ELECTED Mayor and City Council friendly enough to business to purchase the property where the Delmonte Trailer Park is located. I believe that alone would be a considerable amount of money. Somehow, I think they did their research. Let's take a walk through Streator's business district from East to West and 4 blocks North and South, what do we see? A nursery, a welding supply store, gasoline stations, beauty shops, a retail clothing store, a hardware store, a homemade candy store, plumbing and heating stores, financial planners, a CPA office, stock brokers, Ice Cream drive thru and shop,restaurants, flower shop, appliance shops, drug stores, ethnic food store, tax prepares, optometry offices, medical offices, dental offices, barber shops, banking facilities, savings and loan facilities, furniture stores, a bakery, auto supply store, auto repair shop, glazier, attorney offices, churches, recycling business, grocery store, insurance businesses, garden shop and lawn equipment sale&repair store, tattoo place, print and photocopy store, print and sign design shop, exercise gym, furniture stores, banquet facilities, Fraternal organizations, manufacturers, pizza places, and a few second hand clothing shops. Oh, and a few bar's. Most were here before you arrived, some started after you arrived and some are still moving to Streator. , I thank the Mayor, the City Council, Sacci and the Downtown Business Owner Association for doing all they do to promote business in our City. Yes, I do appreciate what is here. However, there is also a lot that isn't here and as you know there are many, many vacant buildings. While I've been here, I've seen many more businesses close than open, our population keeps declining even while the county's population was increasing, our property values keep declining, despite their rebound other places. The only things I really see increasing here are taxes and crime. I think that our Mayor and Council should be producing better results and will continue to ask that they start doing things differently. Do you read comments on some of the popular Facebook pages? It seems that I am not at all the only one wanting Streator to head in a better direction.
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Post by greekgod on Jan 19, 2015 17:58:25 GMT -6
majesticmitchell, Kyle, I am not privy to how many new jobs the ALM expansion will bring into Steator. A foreign Corporation or Company did find our ELECTED Mayor and City Council friendly enough to business to purchase the property where the Delmonte Trailer Park is located. I believe that alone would be a considerable amount of money. Somehow, I think they did their research. Let's take a walk through Streator's business district from East to West and 4 blocks North and South, what do we see? A nursery, a welding supply store, gasoline stations, beauty shops, a retail clothing store, a hardware store, a homemade candy store, plumbing and heating stores, financial planners, a CPA office, stock brokers, Ice Cream drive thru and shop,restaurants, flower shop, appliance shops, drug stores, ethnic food store, tax prepares, optometry offices, medical offices, dental offices, barber shops, banking facilities, savings and loan facilities, furniture stores, a bakery, auto supply store, auto repair shop, glazier, attorney offices, churches, recycling business, grocery store, insurance businesses, garden shop and lawn equipment sale&repair store, tattoo place, print and photocopy store, print and sign design shop, exercise gym, furniture stores, banquet facilities, Fraternal organizations, manufacturers, pizza places, and a few second hand clothing shops. Oh, and a few bar's. Most were here before you arrived, some started after you arrived and some are still moving to Streator. , I thank the Mayor, the City Council, Sacci and the Downtown Business Owner Association for doing all they do to promote business in our City. Yes, I do appreciate what is here. However, there is also a lot that isn't here and as you know there are many, many vacant buildings. While I've been here, I've seen many more businesses close than open, our population keeps declining even while the county's population was increasing, our property values keep declining, despite their rebound other places. The only things I really see increasing here are taxes and crime. I think that our Mayor and Council should be producing better results and will continue to ask that they start doing things differently. Do you read comments on some of the popular Facebook pages? It seems that I am not at all the only one wanting Streator to head in a better direction.
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Post by greekgod on Jan 19, 2015 18:10:16 GMT -6
majesticmitchell, Kyle, I am not privy to how many new jobs the ALM expansion will bring into Steator. A foreign Corporation or Company did find our ELECTED Mayor and City Council friendly enough to business to purchase the property where the Delmonte Trailer Park is located. I believe that alone would be a considerable amount of money. Somehow, I think they did their research. Let's take a walk through Streator's business district from East to West and 4 blocks North and South, what do we see? A nursery, a welding supply store, gasoline stations, beauty shops, a retail clothing store, a hardware store, a homemade candy store, plumbing and heating stores, financial planners, a CPA office, stock brokers, Ice Cream drive thru and shop,restaurants, flower shop, appliance shops, drug stores, ethnic food store, tax prepares, optometry offices, medical offices, dental offices, barber shops, banking facilities, savings and loan facilities, furniture stores, a bakery, auto supply store, auto repair shop, glazier, attorney offices, churches, recycling business, grocery store, insurance businesses, garden shop and lawn equipment sale&repair store, tattoo place, print and photocopy store, print and sign design shop, exercise gym, furniture stores, banquet facilities, Fraternal organizations, manufacturers, pizza places, and a few second hand clothing shops. Oh, and a few bar's. Most were here before you arrived, some started after you arrived and some are still moving to Streator. , I thank the Mayor, the City Council, Sacci and the Downtown Business Owner Association for doing all they do to promote business in our City. Yes, I do appreciate what is here. However, there is also a lot that isn't here and as you know there are many, many vacant buildings. While I've been here, I've seen many more businesses close than open, our population keeps declining even while the county's population was increasing/quote] Kyle, Of course you would blame our Elected Mayor, and City Council for the closing of what Kmart, Thrifty Drugs, Hart's , anything else? I think some of those closing were due to Corporate decisions and business owners wanting to retire, not an unfriendly business atmosphere due to Elected City Government. When we see an investment from another Country it speaks well of ALM and it's success and our City Officials for making it possible for expansion. g
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Post by Kyle Mitchell on Jan 22, 2015 10:23:15 GMT -6
Kyle, Of course you would blame our Elected Mayor, and City Council for the closing of what Kmart, Thrifty Drugs, Hart's , anything else? Gee greek, since our Mayor not only is responsible for proper enforcement of our laws (whether directly or through the City Manager and Police Chief) but also our Liquor Commissioner and responsible for making sure that license holders don't create negative impacts on the community, and one of our only five elected officials, who else would you expect me to hold responsible for the poor business environment here that has created so many vacancies? I've personally asked our Mayor many times to take action to control the street fights and other negative impacts of the over serving, but he(and other city leaders) only seemed to become vindictive towards my family for my asking for a better environment for other businesses. He violated the First Amendment to keep cleaning up Streator and it's image from being politicized. In addition to dragging his feet on cleaning up the violence that hurts business, he seems to drag his feet against efforts from others to loosen the overly restrictive ordinances that keep business from prospering. Our Mayor stopped a business from locating here with a requirement that does not follow our laws and he refuses to talk about his justification for it. Yes, I do believe it is Mayor Lansford who is most responsible for the unfriendly business atmosphere and slow environment that creates so many failed businesses here. I think some of those closing were due to Corporate decisions and business owners wanting to retire, not an unfriendly business atmosphere due to Elected City Government. I didn't even mention Kmart, but wouldn't most capitalists think that if a business location were successful, corporate wouldn't decide to keep it closed while still paying the lease for years? Rather than just close it down leaving yet another vacancy here, wouldn't a successful business owner sell his business when retiring? When we see an investment from another County it speaks well of ALM and it's success and our City Officials for making it possible for expansion. g Yes, I also appreciate that our city leaders are allowing the expansion to happen. They have proven that they can indeed stop business with one of their made up requirements that do not even follow our laws. Did you notice that our City leaders seem to be very successful at increasing the tourism here? There is an article in today's paper that mentions a couple of tourists. Do You think the Chicagoan charged with felony aggravated battery for an October downtown Streator incident could have seen a public forum post from a Streator/Naperville Tourism Commission cross promotion of the acceptability of violence? Tourism Commission members are Mayor appointees aren't they? How many of the recent shoot out participants were tourists? The Times indicated that the "victim" was a tourist. One article indicated that the shooters were also tourists that just happened to stop in the area. In yesterday's paper the Mayor indicates that they are protecting the identity of the shooters to keep them from leaving the area. What do you suppose the motivation was behind our Mayor parading the media to the search sites? It's not like they are reporting that they found anything at the locations to have taken into custody any of the people who feel comfortable that they can get away with having a shoot out while visiting here. Even though he said that cleaning up Streator and it's image should not be politicized, his media escort to the sites with no news to report seems to me like he is playing politics with the public's safety. The criminals in possession of (and seemingly willing to freely use) firearms are still at large within our community is what I take from the article. I wish they would start doing things differently to start attracting a different type of tourist, but there are a lot of people who do think that violence is acceptable and our Mayor and other City leaders get vindictive when asked to clean it up.
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Post by greekgod on Jan 22, 2015 13:50:38 GMT -6
Kyle, Of course you would blame our Elected Mayor, and City Council for the closing of what Kmart, Thrifty Drugs, Hart's , anything else? Gee greek, since our Mayor not only is responsible for proper enforcement of our laws (whether directly or through the City Manager and Police Chief) but also our Liquor Commissioner and responsible for making sure that license holders don't create negative impacts on the community, and one of our only five elected officials, who else would you expect me to hold responsible for the poor business environment here that has created so many vacancies? I've personally asked our Mayor many times to take action to control the street fights and other negative impacts of the over serving, but he(and other city leaders) only seemed to become vindictive towards my family for my asking for a better environment for other businesses. He violated the First Amendment to keep cleaning up Streator and it's image from being politicized. In addition to dragging his feet on cleaning up the violence that hurts business, he seems to drag his feet against efforts from others to loosen the overly restrictive ordinances that keep business from prospering. Our Mayor stopped a business from locating here with a requirement that does not follow our laws and he refuses to talk about his justification for it. Yes, I do believe it is Mayor Lansford who is most responsible for the unfriendly business atmosphere and slow environment that creates so many failed businesses here. I think some of those closing were due to Corporate decisions and business owners wanting to retire, not an unfriendly business atmosphere due to Elected City Government. I didn't even mention Kmart, but wouldn't most capitalists think that if a business location were successful, corporate wouldn't decide to keep it closed while still paying the lease for years? Rather than just close it down leaving yet another vacancy here, wouldn't a successful business owner sell his business when retiring? When we see an investment from another County it speaks well of ALM and it's success and our City Officials for making it possible for expansion. g Yes, I also appreciate that our city leaders are allowing the expansion to happen. They have proven that they can indeed stop business with one of their made up requirements that do not even follow our laws. Did you notice that our City leaders seem to be very successful at increasing the tourism here? There is an article in today's paper that mentions a couple of tourists. Do You think the Chicagoan charged with felony aggravated battery for an October downtown Streator incident could have seen a public forum post from a Streator/Naperville Tourism Commission cross promotion of the acceptability of violence? Tourism Commission members are Mayor appointees aren't they? How many of the recent shoot out participants were tourists? The Times indicated that the "victim" was a tourist. One article indicated that the shooters were also tourists that just happened to stop in the area. In yesterday's paper the Mayor indicates that they are protecting the identity of the shooters to keep them from leaving the area. What do you suppose the motivation was behind our Mayor parading the media to the search sites? It's not like they are reporting that they found anything at the locations to have taken into custody any of the people who feel comfortable that they can get away with having a shoot out while visiting here. Even though he said that cleaning up Streator and it's image should not be politicized, his media escort to the sites with no news to report seems to me like he is playing politics with the public's safety. The criminals in possession of (and seemingly willing to freely use) firearms are still at large within our community is what I take from the article. I wish they would start doing things differently to start attracting a different type of tourist, but there are a lot of people who do think that violence is acceptable and our Mayor and other City leaders get vindictive when asked to clean it up. Kyle, Obviously you believe everything "bad" that happens in Steator is due to the elected officials/appointed officials at City Hall. Gee, Kyle GIVE US YOUR PLAN on how our elected/appointed officials at City Hall can Constitutionally prevent the type of visitors you object to being in Streator before they enter our City Limits? g P.S. I still respect Our Elected Officials for being supportive of new businesses, as demonstrated with the recent expansion of ALM, and a foreign country investing in Streator. Impressive isn't it Kyle?
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Post by mommytoo4 on Jan 22, 2015 14:20:45 GMT -6
Kyle, Of course you would blame our Elected Mayor, and City Council for the closing of what Kmart, Thrifty Drugs, Hart's , anything else? Gee greek, since our Mayor not only is responsible for proper enforcement of our laws (whether directly or through the City Manager and Police Chief) but also our Liquor Commissioner and responsible for making sure that license holders don't create negative impacts on the community, and one of our only five elected officials, who else would you expect me to hold responsible for the poor business environment here that has created so many vacancies? I've personally asked our Mayor many times to take action to control the street fights and other negative impacts of the over serving, but he(and other city leaders) only seemed to become vindictive towards my family for my asking for a better environment for other businesses. He violated the First Amendment to keep cleaning up Streator and it's image from being politicized. In addition to dragging his feet on cleaning up the violence that hurts business, he seems to drag his feet against efforts from others to loosen the overly restrictive ordinances that keep business from prospering. Our Mayor stopped a business from locating here with a requirement that does not follow our laws and he refuses to talk about his justification for it. Yes, I do believe it is Mayor Lansford who is most responsible for the unfriendly business atmosphere and slow environment that creates so many failed businesses here. I think some of those closing were due to Corporate decisions and business owners wanting to retire, not an unfriendly business atmosphere due to Elected City Government. I didn't even mention Kmart, but wouldn't most capitalists think that if a business location were successful, corporate wouldn't decide to keep it closed while still paying the lease for years? Rather than just close it down leaving yet another vacancy here, wouldn't a successful business owner sell his business when retiring? When we see an investment from another County it speaks well of ALM and it's success and our City Officials for making it possible for expansion. g Yes, I also appreciate that our city leaders are allowing the expansion to happen. They have proven that they can indeed stop business with one of their made up requirements that do not even follow our laws. Did you notice that our City leaders seem to be very successful at increasing the tourism here? There is an article in today's paper that mentions a couple of tourists. Do You think the Chicagoan charged with felony aggravated battery for an October downtown Streator incident could have seen a public forum post from a Streator/Naperville Tourism Commission cross promotion of the acceptability of violence? Tourism Commission members are Mayor appointees aren't they? How many of the recent shoot out participants were tourists? The Times indicated that the "victim" was a tourist. One article indicated that the shooters were also tourists that just happened to stop in the area. In yesterday's paper the Mayor indicates that they are protecting the identity of the shooters to keep them from leaving the area. What do you suppose the motivation was behind our Mayor parading the media to the search sites? It's not like they are reporting that they found anything at the locations to have taken into custody any of the people who feel comfortable that they can get away with having a shoot out while visiting here. Even though he said that cleaning up Streator and it's image should not be politicized, his media escort to the sites with no news to report seems to me like he is playing politics with the public's safety. The criminals in possession of (and seemingly willing to freely use) firearms are still at large within our community is what I take from the article. I wish they would start doing things differently to start attracting a different type of tourist, but there are a lot of people who do think that violence is acceptable and our Mayor and other City leaders get vindictive when asked to clean it up. I love how you loosely use the word "tourist ", I don't know about anyone else but I sure don't consider drug runner, gangbangers a tourist! I have to take my daughter to the dr every 2 months in Ottawa, so am I then a tourist to that town, I attended an event in Morris Saturday night, does that make me a tourist! The way you spin things if your words were a tornado they would be considered an EF-6.....sheesh!
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Post by dog on Jan 22, 2015 17:43:10 GMT -6
Yes, I also appreciate that our city leaders are allowing the expansion to happen. They have proven that they can indeed stop business with one of their made up requirements that do not even follow our laws. [/quote] I see in tonights paper that the good Dr. was given a facade grant for improvements at his building. It seems like he is now willing to work with the city to better his property. The city doesnt seem to be acting in a vindictive manner towards the Dr. I wish him success in his venture.
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Post by cmon on Jan 22, 2015 19:53:23 GMT -6
Why does anyone continue to bait the idiot. Let him just fade away to debate himself.
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Post by greekgod on Jan 22, 2015 20:49:11 GMT -6
Why does anyone continue to bait the idiot. Let him just fade away to debate himself. Can you imagine anyone thinking about "investing" in any future business with Kyle, and doing an "internet search" about Kyle Mitchell and this thread show up? Would you want to invest in any business venture he proposes Just wondering? I do wish him well. g
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Post by Kyle Mitchell on Jan 23, 2015 6:14:47 GMT -6
Kyle, Obviously you believe everything "bad" that happens in Steator is due to the elected officials/appointed officials at City Hall. Gee, Kyle GIVE US YOUR PLAN on how our elected/appointed officials at City Hall can Constitutionally prevent the type of visitors you object to being in Streator before they enter our City Limits? g P.S. I still respect Our Elected Officials for being supportive of new businesses, as demonstrated with the recent expansion of ALM, and a foreign country investing in Streator. Impressive isn't it Kyle? It is our City leaders who are responsible for the lack of enforcement of laws here and the message that is sent to people about what is and is not allowed in our community. By allowing people to just walk away when a crime is committed in front of an officer, even when requiring him to draw a weapon to stop it, I believe that it sends a message to other criminals to come here to commit their crimes, because there are not many consequences. When SPD does not even take an eyewitness statement of a mugging, I believe it gives the criminals more confidence that they can get away with more violent crimes here. When City leaders post on here trying to make violence seem acceptable, I believe it sends a message to the criminals that this is a place where it is allowed. My plan to keep these type of people from setting up shop in our community would be to have there start being enforcement and consequences for the crime here and to not have City leaders continue to promote violence as being acceptable in Streator. p.s. I still think that not giving out requirements that go against our laws is what our City leaders should always do and I do not find it impressive that they didn't stand in the way of another business. I am impresses with ALM's performance to make expansion a reality, particularly in a community like Streator.
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Post by Kyle Mitchell on Jan 23, 2015 6:16:12 GMT -6
I love how you loosely use the word "tourist ", I don't know about anyone else but I sure don't consider drug runner, gangbangers a tourist! I have to take my daughter to the dr every 2 months in Ottawa, so am I then a tourist to that town, I attended an event in Morris Saturday night, does that make me a tourist! The way you spin things if your words were a tornado they would be considered an EF-6.....sheesh! It seems that it was the City of Streator highlighting that visitors to our community were responsible for the shoot out. The newspaper reported that the shooters just happened to stop here and dog said that they do not have any association with people of Strerator. Are you saying that you know who they are and have some proof that they are drug runners and gangbangers? Maybe you should share your evidence with SPD so that maybe they can give the public the real story and be able to get these dangerous people off our streets. Don't you think? If they were here for business activities then I wouldn't consider them tourists, but our City officials seem to want us to believe that they just happened to stop in Streator as if there is no need to worry about them being business associates visiting our community regularly for their profits. I sure hope that you do provide SPD with your information so they can get these people that you seem to know so well off our streets.
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Post by mommytoo4 on Jan 23, 2015 7:31:28 GMT -6
I love how you loosely use the word "tourist ", I don't know about anyone else but I sure don't consider drug runner, gangbangers a tourist! I have to take my daughter to the dr every 2 months in Ottawa, so am I then a tourist to that town, I attended an event in Morris Saturday night, does that make me a tourist! The way you spin things if your words were a tornado they would be considered an EF-6.....sheesh! It seems that it was the City of Streator highlighting that visitors to our community were responsible for the shoot out. The newspaper reported that the shooters just happened to stop here and dog said that they do not have any association with people of Strerator. Are you saying that you know who they are and have some proof that they are drug runners and gangbangers? Maybe you should share your evidence with SPD so that maybe they can give the public the real story and be able to get these dangerous people off our streets. Don't you think? If they were here for business activities then I wouldn't consider them tourists, but our City officials seem to want us to believe that they just happened to stop in Streator as if there is no need to worry about them being business associates visiting our community regularly for their profits. I sure hope that you do provide SPD with your information so they can get these people that you seem to know so well off our streets. Yes, these individuals were just traveling down route 23 southbound to destinations unknown, when they thought "hey, let's turn on 9th St. And see what's down that road", as they drove down the street at 3:00 a.m. They noticed suspicious activity at a residence, they stopped to see what was going on and a confrontation ensued, they were forced to protect themselves with the legal firearm that of course they have a conceal carry permit for, Wow, I am so glad these fine upstanding individuals were just passing through and saved the day!
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Post by dog on Jan 23, 2015 8:33:22 GMT -6
and dog said that they do not have any association with people of Strerator. Actually I said this:" and probably doesn't associate with the people of Streator that releasing the name, would be protected from", meaning they don't associate with the "good" people of Streator, aka. the Mitchells or the dogs, or the other lawabiding citizens of Streator. We would have no idea who they are but I would bet that they were here to associate with the criminal element in town. By you actually calling these people tourists, you significantly diminish your argument. IMO
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