Is Riverside/Avondale Ready For Mellow Mushroom?

[mtraininjax]

What is the exact issue with parking on Talbot that can't be resolved with either no parking signs or painted parallel parking stalls?  Seems like an easy fix regardless of whatever happens on the other block.

Lake - We all know the city will get right on that! There are signs of no parking to end of the street, never enforced, of course. I have not seen a tow truck on St. Johns to pull vehicles in the 14 years I have lived in Avondale. Now Frank used to tow people who parked in his space down near Preservation and Tap house, and rightly so, if you parked at his space, which he did not lease parking to P&T, you were towed.

[mtraininjax]

Really?  Who cares?

Redneck, I was not speaking with you. I was speaking with Chris, if you would like ask a question, ask it to me. I'll answer.

[ChriswUfGator]

Mtrain you're not this stupid. If he withdraws the PUD application as they're pressuring him to do, when he resubmits he's governed by the moratorium. He'd have a takings claim as the owner of the parcel, but that doesn't mean he's opening the restaurant. Quit denying what's already obvious to everyone.

Maybe I am, what is your feeling on Tommy Donahoo as a lawyer or George Gabel as a lawyer?

My opinion on that is that it has nothing to do with this debate, so I don't have an opinion.

They're entitled to their views, as are we all.

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

Really?  Who cares?

Redneck, I was not speaking with you. I was speaking with Chris, if you would like ask a question, ask it to me. I'll answer.

Mtrain,

Do you agree that if Tommy Danahoo (the lawyer) and George Gabel (the lawyer) would have just came out as concerned citizens against a nefarious developer, then there wouldn't have been a need to hide behind the protection of WLA, LLC.  They're both quite capable to file the same paperwork personally or under the name of their firm. 

They did.  Why do you think that is?

[fieldafm]

Love will not force this to be a new project. He has gone, on record, stating that MM was grandfathered in.

No, he has not.  Furthermore, he could have sponosored a floor amendment (like he did with Salty Fig) to assure that MM did get grandfathered in.  That did not happen. 

[Captain Zissou]

HIDE YOUR KIDS!!! HIDE YOUR WIVES!!!  THE RPC HAS GONE TOO FAR THIS TIME!!!!

Not only are they threatening to bring a kid friendly restaurant to the Avondale strip, but they're giving away FREE FOOD to support our troops??  Beware, the benevolent saints from Mellow Mushroom are going to destroy the urban core.

I bet this isn't the first time they've done something like this, and I'm sure it's far from the last.  Avondale should be proud to have this business family in their neighborhood.  This is a pretty embarrassing time to be associated with WLA.

Pizza Chain Makes Special Delivery for Soldier in Afghanistan
Army National Guard Maj. Shawn Fulker is thousands of miles away serving in Afghanistan, and when his wife’s birthday came around, he decided he wanted to do something very special.

Josephine Fulker loves Mellow Mushroom pizza, so her husband emailed Mellow Mushroom’s corporate website on Thursday to ask whether one of the company’s Jacksonville stores could deliver a pizza and a $50 gift card to his wife at their Jacksonville, Fla., home. If they could, he said, he would call the store and pay for it with his credit card.

Mellow Mushroom did one better. Unbeknownst to Shawn Fulker, a local Mellow Mushroom franchise was working to make his request even more memorable.

“We had the cook make a heart-shaped pizza, and then we stopped by the nearest Publix (supermarket) to get flowers and then we picked up balloons, just to kind of make it special,” Brooke Chafee, a manager at the Jacksonville store, told ABCNews.com on Monday evening.

Chafee and another employee of the store made the special delivery â€" which included the $50 gift card to Mellow Mushroom â€" in person to Fulker’s home on Thursday. They didn’t charge Shawn Fulker a thing.

More at: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/01/pizza-chain-makes-special-delivery-for-soldier-in-afghanistan/

[Captain Zissou]

Really? No love for MM for going above and beyond for our troops.....?

[funwithteeth]

I'm still waiting for my white-hot frothing rage at the RPC to subside.

[Pinky]

Dear WLA and RAP,

http://gma.yahoo.com/photos/pizza-chain-makes-special-delivery-for-soldier-in-afghanistan-photo--2075868108.html

What do *you* do to make the world better?

[Pinky]

I'm still waiting for my white-hot frothing rage at the RPC to subside.

How dare these miscreants embarrass Bea Arthur this way?

Just you wait though.  Tonight at least a hundred hooligans will show up at the poor woman's curb peeing on anything nailed down long enough to splash.  Don't these drunks and reprobates have anything better to do?

Not without me!   What time?!? 

(Oh, wait, you're joking huh?)

[funwithteeth]

Hey WLA, here's how you can spin this: Mellow Mushroom supports American imperialism. Metro Jacksonville member funwithteeth says you can have that one gratis.

[zedsdead]

Mr. Donahoo and his friends missed a trick here - surely they could have got the FDA to "interdict" the delivery on some pretext…? Six or seven gun-totin' sorta-cops would do the trick :-)

[funguy]

I tried to go to MELLOW MUSHROOM last weekend in Ashville NC... I could not find a parking place..
Look for the same parking problems if MM ever gets off the ground...
Dennis

[BridgeTroll]

When is something going to start happening there?

[JeffreyS]

I tried to go to MELLOW MUSHROOM last weekend in Ashville NC... I could not find a parking place..
Look for the same parking problems if MM ever gets off the ground...
Dennis

When you say you could not find a space within how many blocks are you talking? Even at peak hours has anyone in Riverside ever had to walk more than a block or two to the door they wanted to enter? If they have it would be extremely rare.