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Post by helencrump on Apr 28, 2016 9:19:05 GMT -6
Does anyone wonder why its so easy to be negative, and so difficult to be positive? There are good things happening in Streator. Get on the bandwagon. Page 1 on a positive thread, and the negativity abounds.
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Post by helencrump on Apr 28, 2016 9:20:04 GMT -6
Maybe page 2 can get back into the positive side
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Post by dog on Apr 28, 2016 9:36:11 GMT -6
I see that Chad Lucas is replacing the sidewalk around his business. It also looked like he has been doing a lot of work on the 2nd floor. I also noticed that the old Canale building is getting major work done inside too.
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Post by helencrump on Apr 28, 2016 11:33:11 GMT -6
Has anyone been out to the bowling alley? Everytime im there, they are packed. They are continuing to make improvements and plan to use some of the space that had been unused. If you havent been out there, head on out and bowl a game or 2 or 3. Last summer i was addicted to the blue cheese burger, but i finally tried a few other selections. My neighbors dil takes her grandaughters out after preschool. She posts pics and they look like they are enjoying themselves.
Could be a nice place to have committee meetings for you're group. Bowl a few games after your meeting!
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Post by capncrunch on Apr 28, 2016 11:43:58 GMT -6
I have been. Two of my kids, my spouse and I have bowled a few times. I like the tenderloins they have. My daughter likes the chicken strips.
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Post by worthystreator on Apr 28, 2016 17:51:11 GMT -6
I am just thankful that most people aren't as dense as Kyle. I am also thankful people like him and the owner of the Roxy couldn't figure out how to invest in Streator. It looks like the work being done around town now is a lot higher quality than the disgusting Roxy and the hack job at Flips. Those windows on the old city hall building look amazing!
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Post by nextofkin on Apr 28, 2016 18:38:41 GMT -6
I also noticed that the old Canale building is getting major work done inside too. Parkway (Ron ) is going to turn that into dining in the old Canale building.
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Post by Kyle Mitchell on Apr 29, 2016 5:51:47 GMT -6
Things don't happen overnight. And positive attitudes will encourage more to take the chance. My cousin and her husband moved here from Peoria to re-open the bowling alley and restaurant. They just bought a house here, and both of their daughters moved here. I'm glad they didn't read the negativity here, and let that sway them. Gee helen, I am trying to have a positive attitude. I have been talking about our City being more upfront and open with the proper requirements to open businesses so that our community would be able to have even more and asking questions about the "renovations" and the people making the huge additional investments of adding fire sprinklers. Those are all be positive things, don't you think? It does seem that there are others who want to talk their crap though. Yes, I did notice as I drove by heading north a few days ago that the bowling alley sign had been redone, it looked very nice in the daytime. I couldn't see if it still had neon; I like those type of older signs with character.
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Post by Kyle Mitchell on Apr 29, 2016 5:55:55 GMT -6
I am just thankful that most people aren't as dense as Kyle. I am also thankful people like him and the owner of the Roxy couldn't figure out how to invest in Streator. It looks like the work being done around town now is a lot higher quality than the disgusting Roxy and the hack job at Flips. Those windows on the old city hall building look amazing! Here you go talking your crap. Are you just trying to turn helen's positive thread all negative? Couldn't figure out how to invest in Streator? What are you talking about? Negotiating a good deal to buy the Majestic building would be no problem. There would be expenses to repair, paint, clean, refurnish and reopen the theatre, but that wouldn't be a problem either and would still make it a worthwhile business venture. That part was already all figured out. The problem is that the City of Streator could interpret the amount of work being done to be a "renovation" and not allow the large investment to even be used as a business without the huge additional expenses that are required because of their interpretation of that word. Those additional expenses would not make the business venture very viable, particularly considering that our leaders do not seem to have come up with any solution to the Mayor's claim of the "increasing" bar violence calls. Those incidents substantiate and perpetuate Streator's poor image that keeps good family people (and their money) away from the area and causes our community to be laughed at. The City Manager refusing to commit to the City's requirements to actually use the building as a business until we have "a deed in hand" has made the determination that the Majestic is absolutely not a good investment to make. It's already been figured out. The Northpoint building actually has much more potential and not the worries about the expensive upgrades associated with the word renovation. There are much more expenses needed for furnishing the six screens, but it could be a good investment. An offer was made. However it seems that the "developer" really wanted the building and was being bank-rolled by the Streator tax payers. If we would have kept offering more, would the City of Streator have just handed their $120 million/year "developer" more than the 65,000 tax payer dollars they have committed to help him buy the building? You can think what you like of the Roxy. What theatre or other business do you own to compare it to? Do you have much knowledge of the theatre business and associated expenses? The Roxy made it through a $300K digital conversion without soliciting donations from the public to save the place and then boarding it over. We just finished another huge expense at the Roxy, changing out all the seats and installing high back rockers with retractable cup holder arm rests. They are much, much better than the seats you'd pay more to sit in when seeing a movie in Peru. Just yesterday, we unloaded 750 more for another theatre and there are more coming. I don't expect you to sit in any of them, but you will likely notice other upgrades as you drive by the Roxy over the next few months. Isn't it a shame that the people of Streator aren't allowed to even have a theatre after donating $130,000 to save one and giving up ten years of property tax abatement to help build and then 65,000 more tax dollars to help buy the other? Keep talking your crap. I'll keep responding.
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Post by kickstand on Apr 29, 2016 6:44:16 GMT -6
Teach them how to make popcorn at the roxy. 3 times this year the fire Dept was called for burnt popcorn.
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Post by worthystreator on Apr 29, 2016 7:34:11 GMT -6
I should have said "successfully invest" in Streator. Also, it doesn't take money to clean a theater. It's disgusting.
By the way, this is my positive thread. And it is truly a positive that you and your boss aren't involved in this city and that there are so many other people who are. I want to say thank you to ALL of those currently investing in Streator!
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Post by dumdave on Apr 29, 2016 10:16:12 GMT -6
I am just thankful that most people aren't as dense as Kyle. I am also thankful people like him and the owner of the Roxy couldn't figure out how to invest in Streator. It looks like the work being done around town now is a lot higher quality than the disgusting Roxy and the hack job at Flips. Those windows on the old city hall building look amazing! Here you go talking your crap. Are you just trying to turn helen's positive thread all negative? Couldn't figure out how to invest in Streator? What are you talking about? Negotiating a good deal to buy the Majestic building would be no problem. There would be expenses to repair, paint, clean, refurnish and reopen the theatre, but that wouldn't be a problem either and would still make it a worthwhile business venture. That part was already all figured out. The problem is that the City of Streator could interpret the amount of work being done to be a "renovation" and not allow the large investment to even be used as a business without the huge additional expenses that are required because of their interpretation of that word. Those additional expenses would not make the business venture very viable, particularly considering that our leaders do not seem to have come up with any solution to the Mayor's claim of the "increasing" bar violence calls. Those incidents substantiate and perpetuate Streator's poor image that keeps good family people (and their money) away from the area and causes our community to be laughed at. The City Manager refusing to commit to the City's requirements to actually use the building as a business until we have "a deed in hand" has made the determination that the Majestic is absolutely not a good investment to make. It's already been figured out. The Northpoint building actually has much more potential and not the worries about the expensive upgrades associated with the word renovation. There are much more expenses needed for furnishing the six screens, but it could be a good investment. An offer was made. However it seems that the "developer" really wanted the building and was being bank-rolled by the Streator tax payers. If we would have kept offering more, would the City of Streator have just handed their $120 million/year "developer" more than the 65,000 tax payer dollars they have committed to help him buy the building? You can think what you like of the Roxy. What theatre or other business do you own to compare it to? Do you have much knowledge of the theatre business and associated expenses? The Roxy made it through a $300K digital conversion without soliciting donations from the public to save the place and then boarding it over. We just finished another huge expense at the Roxy, changing out all the seats and installing high back rockers with retractable cup holder arm rests. They are much, much better than the seats you'd pay more to sit in when seeing a movie in Peru. Just yesterday, we unloaded 750 more for another theatre and there are more coming. I don't expect you to sit in any of them, but you will likely notice other upgrades as you drive by the Roxy over the next few months. Isn't it a shame that the people of Streator aren't allowed to even have a theatre after donating $130,000 to save one and giving up ten years of property tax abatement to help build and then 65,000 more tax dollars to help buy the other? Keep talking your crap. I'll keep responding. Thank You Mr. Happy Pants.
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Post by Kyle Mitchell on Apr 30, 2016 5:40:49 GMT -6
Teach them how to make popcorn at the roxy. 3 times this year the fire Dept was called for burnt popcorn. Actually I think you are wrong. I think the Fire Department visited more than three times this year, but that popcorn wasn't burnt any of the times. I even set the system off once last year just doing some sanding in one of the theatres. The City was who wanted the alarm system installed and a sensor in the concession stand. They will probably continue being called out there even though popcorn isn't burnt until the City decides that the sensor should be moved.
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Post by Kyle Mitchell on Apr 30, 2016 5:44:59 GMT -6
I should have said "successfully invest" in Streator. Also, it doesn't take money to clean a theater. It's disgusting. By the way, this is my positive thread. And it is truly a positive that you and your boss aren't involved in this city and that there are so many other people who are. I want to say thank you to ALL of those currently investing in Streator! We did figure out how to successfully invest into trying to open a movie theatre in Streator. The answer was not to. There is no sense in going into any business venture if it is not going to be sustainable and generate some type of profits, don't you think? If you take a look into the economics of a theatre business in Streator, there is not enough revenue to cover excessive capital expenditures to open the business. Adding in the possible huge expenses of requirements that our City Manager is keeping a secret until there is "a deed in hand", makes a Majestic investment most successful by just not doing it. At the Northpoint, considering our City's tax payer supplied hand outs to a "developer" (that he doesn't have to worry about justifying in his business model) to purchase the building, it seems that bidding against tax payers would have been futile. Our City is obviously in bed with this $120 million/year "developer" that no one seems to be able to provide any successful project examples for. In your fantasy business world, does it really not take money to clean a theatre? Janitors work for free and supplies are free? I'm not making excuses or denying that the Roxy has had some cleanliness issues. It has gone through a period of some neglect as other projects were being worked on and through some transitioning of people there. I don't expect that you've been to the Roxy for a while, or that you ever go, and that is fine. The cleaning and stripping of the floors took more time than the installing of the new seats and the owner is committed to keeping it clean. The janitor there seems to be a very hard worker, a Streator resident. I certainly hope it stays cleaned properly. With the way that you attack me and support our City leaders, it does not surprise me at all that you see their keeping the theatre buildings empty as being a positive. That way there are less worries of complaints generated by the "increasing" bar violence incident calls or having to explain why they just let the illegal activities continue to happen without much consequences, hurting our community and causing us to be the butt of many peoples' jokes.
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Post by worthystreator on Apr 30, 2016 10:15:31 GMT -6
If your theater is disgusting, you clean it. As the owner or manager you clean it. Costs you nothing. Just clean it! But if you want to make excuses you can do that all day. Which you have. If you're above cleaning your own place I thank God you and your loser owner didn't figure out how to invest here. We don't need more loser building owners.
Thankfully there are people like Southside busting their tails to make good things happen.
So many positives here. Just a couple negatives. All in all we are pretty lucky.
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