Kamala's New Economic Agenda (A disappointment)

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Originally Posted by littlebittybobby

okay----i personally think that building you are referring to is BEAUTIFUL. Not only that, I have proposed several ideas for using it, without turning it into yet another Gentrification project. It does need a nice paint job; perhaps a mural on the south side ond okay---some landscaping. But it should be used for commercial and industrial purposes--light industry; not a dynamite factory or sawmill, etc. Yup. Why does everything need to be an antiques shop or bistro or art gallery or upscale apartments? That's the kind of CRAP the renovators are doing here, and who needs it, besides limousine liberals? Not mee. Hope that helps you kids some.

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I like your ideas, bobby... why can't it be both? I love the idea of a mural! What would that look like?

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Originally Posted by catherine

I like your ideas, bobby... why can't it be both? I love the idea of a mural! What would that look like?

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ummmm…. neither of you have to look at this building as I do. My fondest hope for it is that it is torn down, but that’s not going to happen because the city already went for a government grant – your tax dollars at work – to tear it down but did not get that.

So we are stuck with it. At this point what I hope to happen is that they put in large windows, a new roof, and paint it a color that recedes. no one is going to use it as a factory building that’s just not viable. And you have to take my word for it that Hermann REALLY needs rental housing units.

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Originally Posted by iris lilies

ummmm…. neither of you have to look at this building as I do. My fondest hope for it is that it is torn down, but that’s not going to happen because the city already went for a government grant – your tax dollars at work – to tear it down but did not get that.

So we are stuck with it. At this point what I hope to happen is that they put in large windows, a new roof, and paint it a color that recedes. no one is going to use it as a factory building that’s just not viable. And you have to take my word for it that Hermann REALLY needs rental housing units.

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okay---I think that building would make one hell of a body shop. Or else a custom church furniture shop, like the one on the bluff in DC, Nowhereville, that employs prolly a dozen people full-time for the last 60 years. Actual jobs that don't cater ta agerculchure. Yup. Or would you rather have it something like nine-eleven missipissi, when you can have a nice meal for $100? plus a gratuity for the thugs you encounter in the lot? Ha. Hope that helps you some.

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Originally Posted by littlebittybobby

okay---I think that building would make one hell of a body shop. Or else a custom church furniture shop, like the one on the bluff in DC, Nowhereville, that employs prolly a dozen people full-time for the last 60 years. Actual jobs that don't cater ta agerculchure. Yup. Or would you rather have it something like nine-eleven missipissi, when you can have a nice meal for $100? plus a gratuity for the thugs you encounter in the lot? Ha. Hope that helps you some.

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I would be thrilled with any restaurant coming into Hermann that is as reliably good as that restaurant for which you have a strange obsession.

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Originally Posted by iris lilies

And you have to take my word for it that Hermann REALLY needs rental housing units.

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Here's the Woolen Mill in Winooski, VT. Would this be a viable outcome for the Hermann factory building?

https://woolen-mill.com/gallery/

Here is what it looked like before:

https://woolen-mill.com/history/

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Originally Posted by catherine

Here's the Woolen Mill in Winooski, VT. Would this be a viable outcome for the Hermann factory building?

https://woolen-mill.com/gallery/

Here is what it looked like before:

https://woolen-mill.com/history/

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our Hermann building looks nothing like those old Victorian factories. We had many of those factories in St. Louis turned into residential lofts, including several directly in my old neighborhood. I lived a block from 2 of them. They have brick walls and old growth wood beams and big window openings.

our Hermann building is made of cement block and was put up in the late 50s/early 60s. There’s nothing of architectural interest in it

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Originally Posted by iris lilies

our Hermann building looks nothing like those old Victorian factories. We had many of those factories in St. Louis turned into residential lofts, including several directly in my old neighborhood. I lived a block from 2 of them. They have brick walls and old growth wood beams and big window openings.

our Hermann building is made of cement block and was put up in the late 50s/early 60s. There’s nothing of architectural interest in it

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.....nothing of architectural interest......Ha. Just that it's a modern concrete block commercial building, no doubt with steel trusses, that would prolly cost $500,000 to build, today. Just trying to think why an 18th-century frontier building would be more worthy of preservation???? But yeah---I'd like to have that building, except that there's prolly a bunch of wine-drinking nimby's in the vicinity that would complain, just for for something to "do". Oh I know---they could make it into a lirrrrarry; the nearby lirrrry here started out as a grocery store, then furniture store, then a lirrrrarrrberry. Sure, that's it. Yup. Even put a small shop up front that purveys tea & crumpets, just like the one here. . Ha. Thankk meee.

okay----i came up with another possible use for that unoccupied building up there in Herman that Faux is constantly griping about. With some gummmint grants, it could be made into a Homeless Shelter. Yup. Housing, in out of the rain and cold for those who have nowhere to go. Yup. 3 hot meals a day, and also FREE medical care. Cable TV, and cold A?C. That way, they won't hafta sleep behing a dumpster, somewhere. Yup.