| cmaloney | Apparently the new "megaplex of fuckery" that is going into Royal Oak has caused Andiamo's to close up | 12:03 |
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| cmaloney | That's the building that took out the parking lot behind Andiamo's over by the library | 12:04 |
| jrwren | huh, i'm surprised. Andiamo's always did good business when I used to frequent that area | 15:11 |
| jrwren | is the Rochester one still open? | 15:11 |
| cmaloney | Andiamo's lost 100% of the parking near it | 15:21 |
| cmaloney | and the valet can't get between the restaurant and the farmer's lot because of that stupid construction there | 15:22 |
| cmaloney | and considering the clientele of Andiamo's trends toward older folks it means there's no way for them to get to the restaurant without a whole lot of walking | 15:22 |
| jrwren | 1 block? | 15:36 |
| cmaloney | it's worse than that | 15:36 |
| jrwren | oh. | 15:37 |
| cmaloney | Think of the entire parking lot from 11 mile to 5th street | 15:37 |
| cmaloney | now imagine that completely gone | 15:37 |
| cmaloney | then, imagine there's no way to get from the farmer's lot to main street unless you cross at 11 mile and walk on the north side | 15:37 |
| cmaloney | or walk down to the south side of 5th | 15:38 |
| jrwren | wtf? that is all construction? | 15:44 |
| jrwren | that is a huge project. what is it? | 15:44 |
| cmaloney | it's a large office building | 15:45 |
| jrwren | cool location for an office :) | 15:45 |
| cmaloney | yeah, I'm sure it'll be awesome, when there's not much around it other than the office bulding | 15:45 |
| cmaloney | IIRC it's going to have the new City Hall in there. | 15:46 |
| cmaloney | and then they'll shuffle around some of the other buildings downtown | 15:46 |
| cmaloney | but frankly it's going to be a clusterbleep | 15:46 |
| jrwren | oh. | 15:46 |
| jrwren | is washington street all messed up too? | 15:47 |
| cmaloney | the signs around the construction have such imaginitive titles as "wealth management, inc." and "Technology Inc." | 15:47 |
| cmaloney | and the developer has a history of not finishing projects and leaving the city with the bill | 15:47 |
| cmaloney | but whatever. Leeches gotta leech | 15:47 |
| jrwren | wow! and the city approved it? | 15:47 |
| cmaloney | washington is OK for now | 15:48 |
| cmaloney | Oh yes! | 15:48 |
| cmaloney | The city thinks this is awesome | 15:48 |
| cmaloney | despite Mr. B's and the businesses bitching up a storm | 15:48 |
| cmaloney | and a lawsuit that was dismissed | 15:48 |
| cmaloney | they think it's brilliant | 15:48 |
| cmaloney | thing is they're banking on a bubble | 15:51 |
| cmaloney | and I fear it's going to kill the character of the city | 15:51 |
| cmaloney | I don't want to be my grandmother saying they needed to put a K-Mart downtown instead of OCC | 15:51 |
| cmaloney | but I think they're overbuilding, overpromising, and under-delivering | 15:52 |
| cmaloney | bbiab | 15:52 |
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