tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-951782330457966647.post3374330166045652086..comments2024-03-28T19:07:23.178-04:00Comments on MOLOVINSKY ON ALLENTOWN: Not Feeling Allentown's Renaissance.michael molovinskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12581039755319742687noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-951782330457966647.post-50169477433188096692016-02-17T12:09:50.197-05:002016-02-17T12:09:50.197-05:00City Center will spin it as they wish and the Morn...City Center will spin it as they wish and the Morning Call will report it as fact. Businesses operate in the real world. If business is good, they are open. If not, they close and cut their losses.<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-951782330457966647.post-1565720175226465032016-02-17T10:27:37.074-05:002016-02-17T10:27:37.074-05:00Tony Lukes Closed to spend more time with his fami...Tony Lukes Closed to spend more time with his family.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-951782330457966647.post-79116462891131188872016-02-16T19:01:27.479-05:002016-02-16T19:01:27.479-05:00Comrade Molovinsky,
Propaganda, um, er, ah, publi...Comrade Molovinsky,<br /><br />Propaganda, um, er, ah, public relations is very important stuff.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br />Col. Viktor Tikhonov<br />Soviet Red Army (ret)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-951782330457966647.post-4626071755477109552016-02-16T18:30:01.766-05:002016-02-16T18:30:01.766-05:00Apparently Bill White has moved into Allentown, pe...Apparently Bill White has moved into Allentown, perhaps some form of penitence. So now he can write rosy columns from the inside.<br /><br /> Scott ArmstrongAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-951782330457966647.post-46799231580859117842016-02-16T18:23:52.314-05:002016-02-16T18:23:52.314-05:00Two blocks in Allentown does not a city makeTwo blocks in Allentown does not a city makeReality Bitesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-951782330457966647.post-6331121252780816402016-02-16T17:47:21.137-05:002016-02-16T17:47:21.137-05:00i'm not hosting any more back and forth commen...i'm not hosting any more back and forth comments about how crowded or empty reillyville was sunday night. some of the restaurants will succeed, others will fail. by any objective criterion, <i>renaissance</i> is a way over the top word to describe the two blocks of hamilton street. hopefully, the morning call will at some point get a grip, and start reporting like a newspaper, instead of a public relations firm.michael molovinskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12581039755319742687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-951782330457966647.post-82470592502821765792016-02-16T16:49:05.874-05:002016-02-16T16:49:05.874-05:00"The Zone": what a wonderful name for th..."The Zone": what a wonderful name for the renaissance area. I hope we can make stick. With welcome signs shoping names of every ANIZDA director at all entrances.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14634111312307369867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-951782330457966647.post-37470273489018113972016-02-16T14:11:51.979-05:002016-02-16T14:11:51.979-05:00Had a great burger on Saturday night at Bell Hall ...Had a great burger on Saturday night at Bell Hall with my family. Place was packed before the hockey game and thinned out once the puck dropped.<br /><br />Went back for a wonderful meal at Grain on Sunday night. Again, the restaurant was full--even with our reservations, we had to wait for 15 min at the bar---which was full.<br /><br />Just wondering where the poster was who was downtown on Valentine's Day and alleging it was empty.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-951782330457966647.post-14090713596949523222016-02-16T13:46:54.244-05:002016-02-16T13:46:54.244-05:00We had plans for Valentine's Day that included...We had plans for Valentine's Day that included being out of town. At the last minute we found ourselves in town with no plans. I clicked on the Open Table app which shows you availability at participating restaurants. This was 4 pm on Sunday and I was amazed at all the availability at the NIZ joints. By the looks of the app, these places weren't busy on the busiest night of the yearAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-951782330457966647.post-49100816865157605322016-02-16T10:35:43.562-05:002016-02-16T10:35:43.562-05:00The NIZ to me is like a car dealership waiting for...The NIZ to me is like a car dealership waiting for customers. It has a couple busy days sure, but most of the time it's staring out the window hoping for some customers to wander on the lot.<br /><br />You won't have a renaissance when every dollar of your NIZ was built for some other city that isn't 50% Hispanic and in the thought process of of largely one wealthy man out in the Saucons.<br /><br />A downtown that doesn't cater to its own residents is an empty downtown. Downtowns have tried and failed to be the downtown for commuters and suburbanites and it's not sustainable.<br /><br />This NIZ wouldn't succeed anywhere in Pennsylvania because it's execution has been terrible - forcing what essentially is the Promenade Shops into ethnically and income diverse cities. I don't know who thought that was a long term sustainable business plan.<br /><br />I'm of the opinion that the long term is irrelevant to both Reilly and City Center - all of what's down there will be quietly sold to Pennrose and other companies over the next few years. You only make money by building it, not managing it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-951782330457966647.post-74997026964125935682016-02-16T09:13:25.403-05:002016-02-16T09:13:25.403-05:00MM wrote:
"Besides the second zone area by t...MM wrote:<br /><br />"Besides the second zone area by the waterfront, the only other outside parcel included was the Sacred Heart Hospital. Considering all the community benefit that institution has provided the poor of center city, its inclusion was well justified."<br /><br /><br />Refresh my memory, but isn't one of the ways the NIZ is funded through earned income taxes? And wasn't that initially even going to include earned income taxes from suburbanites working within the NIZ borders?<br /><br />I would guess that the inclusion of a hospital, even a smaller one, had as much to do with "confiscating" maximum tax revenue as any other consideration.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-951782330457966647.post-64747091818642190592016-02-16T08:26:48.294-05:002016-02-16T08:26:48.294-05:00I just don't feel safe in Allentown. Even th...I just don't feel safe in Allentown. Even though I grew up in the city. I grew up around 14th and Linden. We would walk to Allen, walk to Hamilton Street, and never gave it a second thought. That's not how I feel today when I'm thereJamie Keltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03453782518805745205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-951782330457966647.post-70235452718820590742016-02-16T06:48:12.826-05:002016-02-16T06:48:12.826-05:00george@6:26, if they wanted to be more forthcomin...george@6:26, if they wanted to be more forthcoming, it could say "the morning call building sits <i>outside</i> of the NIZ, but was included anyway."michael molovinskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12581039755319742687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-951782330457966647.post-58850832980090244312016-02-16T06:26:29.188-05:002016-02-16T06:26:29.188-05:00Absolutely. Any respectable new organization would...Absolutely. Any respectable new organization would always note when there might be a perceived conflict in what is written or spoken. How often does one hear on Fox News that "Newscorp is the parent company of Fox News" or "The New York Post is a sister company of Fox News". Every story the Morning Call writes about the NIZ should be accompanied by the statement: "The Morning Call building sits in the NIZ." Simple as that.George Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14913633538326352398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-951782330457966647.post-83562215896569650622016-02-16T06:09:51.889-05:002016-02-16T06:09:51.889-05:00This situation deserves additional national covera...This situation deserves additional national coverage.<br />This is an outrage.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-951782330457966647.post-28263852937059435732016-02-16T06:06:47.843-05:002016-02-16T06:06:47.843-05:00considering that the morning call property was inc...considering that the morning call property was included in the NIZ, although across the street from the rest of the zone, the paper should have created a firewall between itself and NIZ news. on the contrary, it blatantly promotes it.michael molovinskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12581039755319742687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-951782330457966647.post-48234238263434847032016-02-16T05:24:46.346-05:002016-02-16T05:24:46.346-05:001) An observation: I spent the evening downtown on...1) An observation: I spent the evening downtown on Valentine's Day, it was virtually empty in the so-called Renaisance Zone.<br />2) An opinion: The Allentown Morning Call is a case study in the failure of American journalism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com