Radical? Tons of money (well tens of thousands) get dumped into various marketing campaigns that are more or less temporary - where's the consumer retention of the marketing efforts?
Again, it's not the landlord's responsibility. If the landlord wanted to run a business - they buy the building and open a bar, a clothing store or whatever it is. They chose not to. The guy buying the upstage - paid a nice ransom for a broken down building that has "bits" of history tied to it. And he will be spending tons more for engineering, legal, architecture fees - let alone modern day construction - for safety, ada compliance, noise structure etc. Kiss his ass - it's HIS money. Not the city nor gov bailout money. He will be the owner and I guess the operator. Ditto for Robert Legre - poured tons of money in. Hey, I want to live on central park - can't you just let me live there? A true incubator has to be supported financially by someone - kind of like charter schools or public schools. Should the CITY invest in a new building OR how about THIS - BUILD a business incubator on Springwood ave.... WHY NOT? You want a private person to pay taxes and everything else that goes along with owning a building to give FREE rent so a business that can't support itself stay in business? Go to a mall. Stores come and go. It's a fact of life. Locations don't always work out -despite the best intentions of the owners. Mcdonalds even closes locations or moves them. So did Wawa. Asbury is a tough market - especially when you open a business that doesn't cater to the real population of the town. Guess what AP Business is one of the most profitable? Go ahead. As reported in major papers - a 23% gain.... Blame the landlord. Kind of like blaming the banks on their shoddy paperwork and giving homeowners a greenlight to not pay their mortgage. Homeowners HAVE TO PAY someone, you can't just stop paying....or can you? So when you find someone to give me a place to live either on the ocean or on central park (why not both) for free or near free, let me know. My business incubator goal one day is: http://www.urbanhightech.com ( I just need about 20,000 sq ft of free rent, equipment, volunteers, cash, etc....) It's all in my head. That should be scary enough by now for most of you. ------------------------------------ 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: asburypark-dig...@yahoogroups.com asburypark-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: asburypark-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
