Is Riverside/Avondale Ready For Mellow Mushroom?

[mtraininjax]

Quote from: mtraininjax on Today at 11:33:46 AM
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Lets play a little game called, "Which restaurant in the avondale shopping district does Tony in Chicago in own?

That may not be entirely correct. I know "Tony in Chicago" owns the building and the parking lot, but Richard Grenamyer owns the restaurant and is in charge of running the show. Yes "Tony in Chicago" is in person and helps place a swift kick in the butt to some of the people who need it now and then

Quote from: mtraininjax on November 30, 2010, 01:01:00 AM
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Frank (Bluefish) told me last week he has customers from Ponte Vedra that are tiring of the parking scene.

Frank is a tired old gasbag. He still owns the parking lot next to bluefish, and the buildings, but he lets Richard run the restaurant (which is awesome by the way). Frank will tell ANYONE and I mean ANYONE who will listen why his people coming in from Ponte Vedra won't come to Sterlings, er Bluefish, because they can't find a place to park.

CZ, people change, and their priorities change. Maybe one day you and I will meet too, and my perception of you will change as well? One can only hope.

[mtraininjax]

And now, new information that some of the owners are not happy to be losing parking spaces, wow, didn't they JUST say the same thing about Mojo's? Maybe we could tear down some of the ugly duplexes on Riverside Avenue, just north of the shops and replace them with parking lots? I'd like to see the rents rise a little more and the supply fall as well.

[Bewler]

Still don't understand all this concern with parking. Isn't walkability one of the primary reasons people like to live in the Avondale/Riverside area? Plus you can always park in the streets, it's ok, reeeeeeally.

[Captain Zissou]

Meeting tonight at 7:00 PM at Grace Church, corner of Herschel and Edgewood to discuss parking and growth in the Avondale area.
I'm a few blocks away and hopefully insulated from having to wake up on a Saturday or Sunday morning and move Bud Light beer cans, cigarette filters, and other rubbish from the street, but those living closer to the Shoppes can expect that on a regular basis.

Most of the restaurants and shops in the Shoppes are small storefronts, and I for one would prefer to keep it that way. Mellow, another growing chain operation with low to medium priced food, will be large, and will attract a class of diners less inclined to concern themselves with finding an appropriate place to discard their rubbish.

Concerned citizens, FEAR NOT!!!

I have assembled a team of engineers, attorneys, finance professionals, and experienced eaters of food to infiltrate this crowd of heathens and discern whether or not MM will destroy Avondale.  We will be attending both the Southside and Jax beach location of MM this evening armed with a camera and an audio recorder to try and get some intelligible responses out of this inbred fools.  If you have any pressing questions you'd like to know the answer to, please let me know.  If they plan to pee in your yard and destroy your home from the foundation up, we'll find out.  Article to follow.

[BridgeTroll]

If you have any pressing questions you'd like to know the answer to, please let me know.

I am very concerned that MM pizza may cause uncontrolled urine flow.  This would ruin a perfectly good evening IMHO.  Could you please verify or debunk? 

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

@CZ

I would be more interested in finding out the cause of the spontaneous appearance of aluminum cans and bottles on lawns after the witching hour.

[PeeJayEss]

@CZ

I would be more interested in finding out the cause of the spontaneous appearance of aluminum cans and bottles on lawns after the witching hour.

If you've already got that problem in Avondale, its not MM's fault. Inconsiderate people will still exist even if we remove all the businesses from the neighborhood. Then we'd still have trash on our lawns (which is in all likelihood from someone drinking apart from a bar), but we'd also have a boring neighborhood.

[Kaiser Soze]

@CZ

I would be more interested in finding out the cause of the spontaneous appearance of aluminum cans and bottles on lawns after the witching hour.

These must all get picked up before I walk my dog every morning because I don't see them.

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

... having to wake up on a Saturday or Sunday morning and move Bud Light beer cans, cigarette filters, and other rubbish from the street, but those living closer to the Shoppes can expect that on a regular basis.

[Tacachale]

Ask them why they hate parking so much. What did parking ever do to them? At the Beach location, ask those hillbillies who ride their bikes why they didn't make a wholesome car trip like all good citizens are supposed to do.

[mtraininjax]

Inconsiderate people will still exist even if we remove all the businesses from the neighborhood.

+1, Had a real butthead almost run me over on the sidewalk with his F-ing bike last night and I had my dog with me, its these people who I wish would leave Avondale and never return.

[Bewler]

Well I hate to say it but Captain Zissou posted his brave declaration on May 4th, its already the 9th and we still haven't heard anything from him. I think it's safe to say that he and his entire crew must have died during their dangerous excursion to MM.

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

Well I hate to say it but Captain Zissou posted his brave declaration on May 4th, its already the 9th and we still haven't heard anything from him. I think it's safe to say that he and his entire crew must have died during their dangerous excursion to MM.

Or still in jail after urinating in public and throwing beer cans/bottles around and general mischief that MM customers get into.

[Tacachale]

How typical of those parking-hating malefactors.

[fieldafm]

From the http://www.igetmellow.com/ blog:

The Mellow team has been doing a little walking around the Avondale neighborhood, lately. Last week, we walked around with the City’s parking consultants â€" the people likely to be entrusted with a study to see how the pressure of parking might be alleviated, particularly in the streets  around the Shoppes of Avondale. We think we got a better understanding of the situation and were very interested in what the consultants had to say. We’ve been looking for options to minimize the impact our new restaurant will have on parking, so this was certainly helpful.


This week, we were walking again, this time to speak to retailers in the neighborhood to tell them about this blog as a source of information and encourage them to give us feedback on our  proposals  for the restaurant. We got some great feedback, strong expressions of support and a good chance to put names to faces. We did not have time to visit all of the retailers, but  will be back next week to finish off our introductions. We are also making special efforts to engage with our colleagues  from the restaurants in the area.

As always, we are doing our very best to be good neighbors and seek out solutions to  shared challenges.