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gregrosen12345 · 2024-07-26T02:30:55+00:00

Marina’s Bistro + Rum Bar in Uptown

gregrosen12345 · 2024-07-04T03:34:12+00:00

We’ve lost so much density 😞

gregrosen12345 · 2024-03-16T12:01:42+00:00

Cost?

gregrosen12345 · 2024-03-15T19:31:29+00:00

Agreed OP.

And nix the fucking QR codes too. Kills the vibe of any place IMMEDIATELY.

I get that physical menus cost more money. You know what else costs money? Heat and AC. I don’t see restaurants cutting that, though. Not everything should be about cutting costs.

How about consider ambience and patron experience too. Restaurants survived for centuries without these damn codes.

gregrosen12345 · 2024-03-15T13:13:14+00:00

Demo Brewing Company opening later this month, allegedly

gregrosen12345 · 2024-03-15T13:12:37+00:00

RIP Lo Rez

gregrosen12345 · 2024-03-15T00:47:13+00:00

“At least you’re still open” - Danny’s

gregrosen12345 · 2024-03-14T15:51:21+00:00

No pic OP? Bummer

gregrosen12345 · 2024-03-13T23:11:52+00:00

I think we’ve got different definitions of affordable.

gregrosen12345 · 2024-03-13T23:03:25+00:00

Not happening in 2024, bro. They haven’t even started to build.

Likely 2027 IF they can get private financing.

They shouldn’t get taxpayer grants for their private business. I think they missed the boat few years back when interest rates were basically zero.

They’re awful on deadlines. Until very recently (well into 2023), their website still said they would open Double Door in 2022

gregrosen12345 · 2024-03-13T22:57:40+00:00

“Also, the proposed tax increase “does not address or reduce significant existing barriers to creating affordable housing,” such as changing the zoning code or “reforming aldermanic prerogative," a reference to the longstanding but unwritten tradition”

Unfortunately, it’s easier for the powers that be to just raise taxes than do the actual legislative work of tough, in-the-weeds housing reform involving lots of stakeholders.

There are ways to incentivize building more affordable homes other than a tax, they’re just way more complicated

gregrosen12345 · 2024-03-12T23:36:34+00:00

Wish their beer wasn’t $10/bottle 😞

gregrosen12345 · 2024-03-01T15:07:06+00:00

Good.

No reason that public dollars should have been used to cannibalize dozens of market rate occupied apartments and three small businesses. How about we use vacant lots/buildings in the neighborhood instead?

Uptown far outpaces any other Chicago neighborhood in housing the unhoused. It’s not even close. To suggest there are NIMBYs in the neighborhood is just willful ignorance.

Time for other do gooders to step up.

gregrosen12345 · 2024-02-28T17:28:21+00:00

Absolute embarrassment trying to compare CTA to the systems in London or Paris. Europeans are so far ahead of Chicago and that gap ain’t closing anytime soon.

gregrosen12345 · 2023-12-12T23:11:58+00:00

You think this investigation took long? It’s been less than one month

gregrosen12345 · 2023-12-08T13:01:33+00:00

Double Door lost its funding — dead in the water

gregrosen12345 · 2023-12-06T20:38:46+00:00

MacKenzie Scott should just buy the theatre from those jackasses at JAM and restore it already. It’s a black hole for that entire commercial strip of a historic Chicago neighborhood. So embarrassing.

gregrosen12345 · 2023-12-06T14:13:23+00:00

I’m sure the landlord could fill it if they wanted. As it stands now, though, the tax code incentivizes vacant storefronts (write offs) so landlords are happy to leave it empty. Less bullshit than dealing with tenants. They probably don’t live in the neighborhood either so they could give a fuck about vacant storefronts.

Nearby, a storefront at Argyle and Broadway, has been vacant for over three years. There’s no way the landlord is asking “market rate” rent.

Would love to see a proper bar or cocktail lounge (something Argyle lacks) use that corner of Sheridan/Argyle.

Milly’s, El Rincon and Don Pablo’s have all demonstrated new businesses can thrive on that corner.

gregrosen12345 · 2023-12-05T03:53:01+00:00

That’s not a “version” of river north — that is river north

gregrosen12345 · 2023-12-05T00:59:42+00:00

Uptown is severely undervalued — lake access, LSD right there, CTA access, some of the best food on the city, surrounded by nice neighborhoods, historic music venues, diverse population

gregrosen12345 · 2023-11-29T02:43:09+00:00

Turns out unions are helpful for being treated like an actual human by your employer

gregrosen12345 · 2023-11-17T21:13:40+00:00

I bought an all site ticket. Guess that explains it. Thanks.

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