09-09-2010, 05:24 PM
Quote:The mayor says:⢠Improving and leasing the two city-owned retail spaces in the parking garage along Clayton Street for commercial use. Citing the "hundreds" of people who visit the nearby County Building each day, Sabonjian said "that is a market we should be capturing."
The mayor's ignorance of commercial real estate development really shows here. The idea of the empty shell is that a potential lessee can build it out to suit their particular business' needs. One size fits no one in the end. Anyone leasing the space would then have to wreck out everything the city had done so they could install their own interior. That space sits vacant because there is no demand for it. Many years ago, when the city began talk of downtown redevelopment, I suggested that Greenbay Road was our most heavily traveled thoroughfare and it might be a better idea to look at possible redevelopment there. Of course my drawback was(is) that I don't hold a college degree like the rest of our brilliant city elected officials over the years have and why should they listen to a carpenter with only a high school education? Two words comes to mind, COMMON SENSE. You know they always say that we have to offer higher wages and benefits for our local elected officials so we can continue to attract the best and the brightest. I wasn't going to drink today but...