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Enough, Already!!!!!

posted by Krayon Scribbel on August 29, 2001

So, now Waterloo Brewing Company is going belly up to become lofts.

Maybe I'm a little extra pissed off because Billy Forrester is a friend of mine and I know how much of his soul is in that bar, maybe it's that I can damn near throw a rock at the empty carcass of a 6 story abandoned building that was never completed (that is a block away from W-loo), maybe it's seeing the lofts next door not selling as the tech boom dies its last death, but I'm a little more than fed up with "smart growth" and "downtown revitalization". When the lofts don't sell and become abandoned eyesores, the owners can take a tidy tax loss, while the rest of us get to live with "yuppie ghetto" syndrome. Not to mention, current business owners can no longer afford to do business downtown, and must succumb to the "Starbucks syndrome" and flee for cheaper pastures. Gone forever will be any soul, character, or point in going downtown. Enough is enough, al-fucking-ready!!!

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Posted by: p at August 29, 2001 02:51 PM

Yell louder, MY WIFE can't hear you.

Posted by: Hoyt at August 29, 2001 03:03 PM

yeah sticky. good idea. i'll get out of here and move to DALLAS. right.

yeah.

whatever.

Posted by: ttk at August 29, 2001 03:09 PM

DALLAS LOVES YOU!

Posted by: lang at August 29, 2001 03:38 PM

David, Tom (hell, everybody) -

Someone wanna join me for a beer before they shut the place down on Sunday?

Posted by: kong at August 29, 2001 06:20 PM

king - yes.

Posted by: ttk at August 29, 2001 09:22 PM

hmmm. he idea of fling to austin for the weekend to have a beer sounds amazingly stupid.

i'm checking ticket prices.

Posted by: dick at August 29, 2001 10:34 PM

Here's the deal: I'm on call this weekend, but I'd love to have a pre on call beer with any and everybody Friday before 7PM.

Posted by: Hoyt at August 30, 2001 09:45 AM

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