Is FAB doing anything to help with the zoning? Fairmount should really be a better commerical strip than it is.

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I'm glad Bread found an alternate location, but I have to say I'm disappointed. I agree Fairmount Ave. is not living up to its potential & a bakery right on the main drag would have been a big boost. *Sigh*

The good news is, though, Neil, that bread* seems to still be planning on opening on Fairmount at some point in time:

"Due to zoning hangups, we are no longer opening at the original spot on Fairmount Ave right away."


That was from the earlier thread about the bakery.

I take the "right away" part to mean that they still intend to open there at some time. I know the original post also stated that they had contractors working on the Fairmount Ave. location, so presumably they won't want the work they've done to go to waste. Time (or another post by Vicki of bread*) will tell.

It's this kind of thing that makes me go "what the HELL?!" Why is the city actively discouraging businesses from opening?? I know all about Darrell Clarke etc, but this is absolutely ridiculous. It makes no economic or any other sense whatsoever.

Besides, how are they going to get payoffs if they keep people out of the neighborhoods?

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Why isn't the coffee shop opening on Girard? The owner fought pretty hard to make it happen.

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A little birdie told me that the space on the south side of Fairmount, between 20th and 21st, is going to be a wine bar...

__Jason

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I heard about the wine bar for the past year or so, but a worker I talked to said he thought it was still available to rent.

Anyone know what happened here? Did they give up, hit too much opposition, or just run out of money?

What is a wine bar? Just a bar where all they serve is wine?

it seemed to go under after she did the feasibility survey. maybe the over head of selling coffee didnt seem to work. she hasnt posted here in a while

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