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Post by Solitaire on Sept 11, 2013 20:33:31 GMT -6
Will Streator ever get a Save A Lot again; when we had the store it did very well.
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Post by seaturtle43 in hostile forum on Sept 11, 2013 20:54:04 GMT -6
I wish they were able to come back. Such a nice family and employees there. Always pleasant and helpful
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Post by helencrump on Sept 11, 2013 21:38:43 GMT -6
Ahhhh...that sounds like an ideal use for the vacant building that Kyle's friend has. It sounded like he just wanted it to be used. Kyle should get the 2 talking.
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Post by Solitaire on Sept 11, 2013 22:08:00 GMT -6
Id be there almost everday when it was in town, & there was always a decent amount of customers, very well ran, very professional & on the ball employees. Its ashame Streator had to lose them. I saw the lights on in the vacant store a couple of weeks ago..must of been collecting mold
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Post by mommytoo4 on Sept 12, 2013 0:08:49 GMT -6
Ahhhh...that sounds like an ideal use for the vacant building that Kyle's friend has. It sounded like he just wanted it to be used. Kyle should get the 2 talking. Yes it would, downtown would be a perfect place for a grocery store.
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Post by Kyle Mitchell on Sept 12, 2013 7:41:46 GMT -6
I did write to them and some other retailers a couple of years ago.
I am sure that a company with over 1000 stores that already had a location here would have no problem realizing that there are many available locations, if they had any desire to come back.
I would love to have a store like that on Main Street, but that location doesn't have any off street parking and I don't think there is enough street parking to handle their volume of customers.
If you look at the per capita retail spending for Streator from 2010 census statistics, you will see that it is about half that of other communities in the area.
If we create livable wage jobs here and a place that more people aren't afraid to come to, more money will be spent here, and vacancies will fill with more consumer choices. JMO
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2013 7:55:34 GMT -6
save-a-lot will never come back to streator i alrady talked to them. they were upset for streator did not ok/make fieldman to put roof on building. they want nothing to do with us.
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Post by seaturtle43 in hostile forum on Sept 12, 2013 9:23:07 GMT -6
How can the city make him replace the roof??
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Post by dumdave on Sept 12, 2013 9:33:41 GMT -6
Kyle, your building was the place to buy grocerys back in the 50's. National Tea was it's name. We could walk downtown, buy the groceries & they would be delivered to our door by the time we were done shopping. They moved to Westgate Plaza when it opened in the early 1960's.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2013 9:41:05 GMT -6
How can the city make him replace the roof?? THE CITY COULD GIVE FIELMAN A BREAK ON TAXES AND THAT WOULD BE INsentative for fieldam to get roof fixed. remember city has to work with bussiness also.. sorry for caps
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Post by dumdave on Sept 12, 2013 9:45:55 GMT -6
He is already qualified to get TIF money. I hope he uses it to fix the buildings out there.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2013 9:47:37 GMT -6
he has so much money he could care less
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Post by Kyle Mitchell on Sept 12, 2013 9:49:11 GMT -6
Yes, I have a picture(a blown up version of the one on the wall in country cupboard) that I can read the National Tea sign in. I also have a list from our wonderful Historical Society of many businesses that were in my building starting 1907. It was built in 1885.
You can still see part of the Schlitz' logo on the east side. and they are listed as a business at the same time as retail stores. I'm wondering if they just had 2nd floor offices or something, I doubt they were brewing.
There was a gym with boxing on the third floor, I think that was the last use up there.
That was a different era.
There is some type of convenience store preparing to open across the street from the post office.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2013 9:52:04 GMT -6
yes there was a gym up stairs
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Post by rvfd44 on Sept 12, 2013 11:50:32 GMT -6
We were shut down due to the parts of the roof collapsing and causing mold. For many years as asked for the roof to be replaced and all that was done was layer after layer of tar. After we took everything out Fieldman then replaced the roof but in the day that the roof had been taken down it rained and now all the wall from the bathroom to the front are moldy now. The only way Save-A-Lot would come back is if the McGrogan opened it, since they had the store here no one else can open one in Streator They have first rights to it unless they gave up that right and gave permission to whom ever wanted to reopen one. I have for many years tried to find a way to reopen it maybe not at that location, the cost to reopen it would be close to $500,000 that is a requirement from Save-A-Lot. Many of us that were at Save-A-Lot when it closed lost out on a second family, we are still in touch with each other and miss working together and serving this community. Maybe some day we will see one again but it will take a lot of calls to the McGrogans from Streator Residence to make it happen.
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