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Re: Ames 75% Star Wars LEGO
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Tue, 6 Jun 2000 02:19:17 GMT
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Dave Schuler wrote:
> In lugnet.loc.us.pa.pit, Toki Barron writes:
> > If you browse to www.postgazette.com, you can find plenty about the "Forbes &
> > Fifth" project or whatever it is called. Mayor Murph is plannint to use
> > eminent domain (sp?) to buy a bunch of the older, mom & pop stores and put in
> > things like Nordstroms, I guess to make it a desirable place to shop ala
> > Fifth Avenue, NYC (I guess, that's where all of the big stores like Macy's
> > and Saks Fifth Avenue are, right?).
>
> Does this really seem like a good project to anyone? Downtown already
> suffers from a paucity of parking, especially in the 5th/Forbes area! What
> will be served by bringing in new businesses that no one will be able to
> access? For that matter, since most of the stores downtown are represented
> elsewhere in malls and other, more accessible areas, who's going to bother
> fighting their way downtown when they can go to South or North Hills, for
> instance? The whole thing seems ill-conceived, especially considering how
> badly in debt the town is as a whole, and how strangely reluctant the powers-
> that-be are to consider waterfront development.
I agree, Forbes & 5th isn't really a good idea. Speaking of which, I should
mention that Hari Krishna in Market Square FINALLY got busted for selling
paraphernalia. Well, duh.
They are doing some waterfront development a little bit down the river in
Homestead - the new Loews Cinema comes to mind but there is a whole mall there.
People just don't shop downtown anymore, not in Pittsburgh. South Hills Village
is no more than 10 miles from downtown, and there are a whole bunch of shops near
it as well. Ross Park Mall is about the same, and there is also a whole bunch of
stuff on McKnight Road. I certainly couldn't go downtown on the T or a bus and
buy 12 Lego sets at a time like I did during the recent sale.
> Not until the Pens lost game 3 did they get
> a headline of their own, and only then because they'd lost! Very frustrating
> to a heavy-duty Pens fan!
Glad to hear that! I am as well - as I mentioned, I've played hockey since I was
6 yrs old in 1980. Back in the pre-Lemieux days, my dad could get free tickets
for my whole team and their families in section D to some games because attendance
was so poor. Nowadays, the tickets are so expensive that it isn't hard to see why
people don't go to some of the games against teams like Nashville or in the middle
of the week, but it does suck to see front page coverage of the 2000 draft and an
article by Dave Molinari buried on page 8.
> > I think Pittsburgh is out of its depression of the 80s, but is growing much
> > more slowly that other areas (most notably, San Jose/Silicon Valley and
> > Raleigh/Durham). The relatively high taxes don't help, but it is really the
> > lack of jobs for young people that hurts the city more than anything else.
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> That, and the not incorrect perception of Pittsburgh as a town currently
> past its prime; the Steel mentality is still too strong here for Pittsburgh to
> move beyond its obsolescence. Further, taxes are relatively high in part
> because of the huge tracts of tax-shielded land in the downtown area. The
> building of high-price, high-profile retail juggernauts won't help in that
> regard, though perhaps a less cryptic and inaccessible mass transit system
> might be useful.
That is very true. Did you know that one of the new department stores downtown
(it might be Lazarus) pays no rent until it makes $40 million in sales? I don't
think it is a bad idea to encourage new businesses, but this might be going a
little bit too far. Of course, if it were a concession to get a Lego Imagination
Center that would be a different story altogether :-)
Toki
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| (...) That's true--it's just a shame you have to go through Homestead to get to it! Seriously, I think that area will get a nice little boost in the coming years. (...) I wish that a Target or Wal-Mart were more accessible, though. It's a shame that (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.us.pa.pit)
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| (...) Does this really seem like a good project to anyone? Downtown already suffers from a paucity of parking, especially in the 5th/Forbes area! What will be served by bringing in new businesses that no one will be able to access? For that matter, (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.us.pa.pit)
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