In my opinion, the most out of the box thing that would have a huge impact on AP would be something like a House of Blues, like I mentioned before. If one of those were built here, it would definitely succeed and probably jumpstart many other things.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 12/12/2007 10:40:16 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > As optimistic as this sounds, I think there's a couple of problems. > Bradley has an advantage that if you go see a movie at that theater, > you can stay parked and walk to a wide variety of restaurants. > Currently, we only have one viable movie theater, The Paramount. > Not too many places that you can walk to from there. > Also, people don't go to the movies like they used to. It's getting > increasingly hard for movie theaters to stay profitable. > One benefit that Bradley has is that theater has been in continuous > operation for many many years. You need that kind of consistency to > stay viable. > AP isn't established itself as a place to go see movies, and I tend to > think that getting people to start doing so would be an uphill battle > considering the other options already available. > > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com) , > MarioAPNJ@, Ma > > > > Folks at Bradley's Beach Cinema keep quietly doing their thing, and > I'm > > > > Everything here is an uphill battle -- comes with the territory of > renaissance/redevelopment. > > As a layman, I'd say we should welcome more out-of-the-box creativity: > retailers other than boutiques and antiques, meat 'n' potatoes eateries in > addition to fine fare restaurants, and possibly a small (non-teenage) movie house in > the shopping district. > > > > > > **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes > (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004) > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/