With the recent closure of the Turning Point Gallery and efforts underway to clean out the storefront, this looks to be another desirable location on State Street. No word yet on what may occupy the space.
Four more retail spaces will close until Media will become a five block food court. Clueless town reps won't realize it till Deals is a brazilian steak house. Housing values will drop when their are 15 empty store fronts.
I realize I'm only one retail shop that's been added to State Street recently. Come check out Magic Threads Consignment Boutique--inside the Media Mini Mall, next to 320 Market. Hopefully, I'm the beginning a terms for retail shop to refill the other vacancies.
anon 12:25: What is your suggestion? What specific and actionable advice would you provide to council? How do you suggest the decisions of council change in order to attract non-food service business? How do you think Media should alter the economic drivers that are currently attracting food service instead of retail services, given the current economic climate today, coupled with the impact of online retailers like Amazon that affect the how and where people shop? What plans do you have to either a) occupy one of the vacant business yourself b) actively attract viable businesses or c) support the increase in non-food related services?
I would really be interested in hearing your specific, realistic and achievable suggestions. It is easy to say "council should do better, this sucks". It is a lot harder to look realistically at the business problems, understand the limits of what government can do vs. the economics of the situation and then come up with a viable plan. I think all of us would be interested in hearing you suggestions.
This borough has spent countless hours and thousands of dollars worrying about a bridge / dam repair Instead of focusing on things that matter. . In that veign Amazon didn't start impacting local economies last week it's been going on for years The commercial real estate firms could do a far better job of attracting Business then the borough of media They control the rents and the overall viability of a upstart business Also the borough hired a consulting firm for this exact reason how much money did that cost and where are the action items from that ? Also when media borough stop wasting tax payer dollars on 3rd street bridge obstruction, when will the borough sidewalks get fixed. When will the olive street garage get fixed, when will the Boroughs Storm water master plan get put together, when will the wastewater plant get its effluent exceedance, And why do we need 50 k in cameras on Baltimore pike Let the banks install there own cameras ?
Years ago, to protect the striped bass population in the Chesapeake, the government decide to put limits on fishing. The striped bass are natural predators of crabs. Guess what happened? Crab population went down. Over 70 places to eat lunch in town. How did we get there? Certainly Amazon is a category killer. Dictating to real estate owners years ago to whom they can rent to in order to achieve a desired outcome is part of the problem. If you owned property on state street, would you like the borough to tell you who you could or couldn't rent to. Does the CVS and the new apartment complex look a little too close to the road for your liking? Are their set asides?
CAN WE PLEASE take down the monopoly on home movie to DVD conversions and get some actual competition now? I cannot live in a town with only one VHS conversion store, the single storefront of neon lights just aren't enough.
Four more retail spaces will close until Media will become a five block food court. Clueless town reps won't realize it till Deals is a brazilian steak house. Housing values will drop when their are 15 empty store fronts.
ReplyDeleteI realize I'm only one retail shop that's been added to State Street recently. Come check out Magic Threads Consignment Boutique--inside the Media Mini Mall, next to 320 Market.
DeleteHopefully, I'm the beginning a terms for retail shop to refill the other vacancies.
anon 12:25: What is your suggestion? What specific and actionable advice would you provide to council? How do you suggest the decisions of council change in order to attract non-food service business? How do you think Media should alter the economic drivers that are currently attracting food service instead of retail services, given the current economic climate today, coupled with the impact of online retailers like Amazon that affect the how and where people shop? What plans do you have to either a) occupy one of the vacant business yourself b) actively attract viable businesses or c) support the increase in non-food related services?
ReplyDeleteI would really be interested in hearing your specific, realistic and achievable suggestions. It is easy to say "council should do better, this sucks". It is a lot harder to look realistically at the business problems, understand the limits of what government can do vs. the economics of the situation and then come up with a viable plan. I think all of us would be interested in hearing you suggestions.
This borough has spent countless hours and thousands of dollars worrying about a bridge / dam repair
DeleteInstead of focusing on things that matter. . In that veign Amazon didn't start impacting local economies last week it's been going on for years
The commercial real estate firms could do a far better job of attracting
Business then the borough of media
They control the rents and the overall viability of a upstart business
Also the borough hired a consulting firm for this exact reason how much money did that cost and where are the action items from that ?
Also when media borough stop wasting tax payer dollars on 3rd street bridge obstruction, when will the borough sidewalks get fixed. When will the olive street garage get fixed, when will the Boroughs Storm water master plan get put together, when will the wastewater plant get its effluent exceedance,
And why do we need 50 k in cameras on Baltimore pike
Let the banks install there own cameras ?
Years ago, to protect the striped bass population in the Chesapeake, the government decide to put limits on fishing. The striped bass are natural predators of crabs. Guess what happened? Crab population went down. Over 70 places to eat lunch in town. How did we get there? Certainly Amazon is a category killer. Dictating to real estate owners years ago to whom they can rent to in order to achieve a desired outcome is part of the problem. If you owned property on state street, would you like the borough to tell you who you could or couldn't rent to. Does the CVS and the new apartment complex look a little too close to the road for your liking? Are their set asides?
DeleteHave Khan sell the town house property to Apple for an Apple Store
DeleteAnd conference center it will anchor other retail stores here as well
I love it. Striped bass and Crabs on the Chesapeake have something to do with new restaurants on State Street! Must be fault of someone on Council.
ReplyDeleteCAN WE PLEASE take down the monopoly on home movie to DVD conversions and get some actual competition now? I cannot live in a town with only one VHS conversion store, the single storefront of neon lights just aren't enough.
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