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Man shot outside Bombers
Friday, September 17, 2010

SCHENECTADY — Police responded to downtown State Street outside Bombers Burrito Bar at about 12:50 a.m. Friday where a man had been shot.............>>>>...............>>>>..........http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2010/sep/17/0917_Shooting/

I don't believe this story. Death Ray, Mercury Morris and SS Savage have repeatedly stated that there is no violent crime Downtown, especially near Proctors. I read it in my Gazetto. Maybe they need more cameras on State?

Bombers might as well close the doors now.  Why wait for the inevitable slow death after this news circulates?  It's unfortunate, I liked their wings - just not enough to risk my life for.

http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/blog/2010/09/bigger_better_bombers_burrito_bar.html

Matt Baugartner is expanding his Bombers Burrito Bar brand again, this time with the addition of a beached-theme room above his Bombers location in downtown Schenectady.
The room, located on the third story above his Bombers at 447 State St., will hold up to 75 people for mainly private events. Baumgartner said the extra room should solve a space problem that he encounters when private parties want tables in the main Bombers’ bar and dining area.
“We get a lot of requests for people looking to have private parties for 20-30 people. Any time we try, it’s gotten in the way of people having dinner,” he said.
The room which he’s calling “LaPlaya” (Spanish for “beach”), will be broadcasting football games on Sundays and Mondays on the room’s three 60-inch screen TVs, and open to the public on Fridays. It will be used for private parties on the remaining four days. The first private party will be hosted there on Friday.
Baumgartner described the decor as “very beachy,” with whitewashed wooden floors and wooden pendant lamps.
The Union College graduate said he did not want to publicize the expansion until he received the liquor license and necessary approvals from the city. A similar arrangement at his Bombers on Lark Street in Albany was shot down by the city over zoning issues, and Baumgartner said he didn’t want to jump the gun on the Schenectady plans.
“I kept it a little quiet,” he said. Meanwhile, Baumgartner had no new news to report on plans by siblings Tami Dzembo and Glen Young to open a Bombers at 215 River St. in Troy. They have had discussions, Baumgartner said, but nothing has been signed. The Troy restaurant would be the first Bombers franchise.
In addition to his Bombers locations in Schenectady and Albany, Baumgartner owns Bombers and Wolff’s Biergarten in Albany.


Read more: Bigger, better Bombers Burrito Bar - The Business Review (Albany)

Beach themed room? lol. He should think about a gangster themed room. That's what we need Downtown. Scarface posters, booming hip-hop that can be heard for blocks and overpriced watery drinks. A place to chill for the chilly.

Will the new expansion include a place to check in your guns?

One of the drinks at Bombers is a 40oz Colt45 in a champaign chiller.  Not shocked there was a shooting out front.

Isn't this the same place where a Union co-ed got totally plastered and passed out overnight in a broom closet? Another so-called restaurant where nobody goes for the fare. Gin mills back to back. And some call this "renaissance"?

Well, hopefully they're making a lot of money to pay for everything they need to run the establishment, especially considering with their plans to continuously expand, soon, by county law in Schenectady and Albany, they'll need to go ahead and get new menus, listing the caloric intake of everything.  I don't know how much the new menus cost, but it may be a small expense they didn't see coming from an expanding business.

They just had a shooting in front of their bar.  Possibly a Bombers customer committed the shooting or a Bombers customer was the victim, or both.  None the less, Bombers name appears in the papers linked to a shooting.  I would think the last thing they are worried about is new menus.  They have a PR problem on their hands.  Look for Metroplex and the County PR machine to re-write the facts of this story.

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Scarface posters, booming hip-hop that can be heard for blocks and overpriced watery drinks. A place to chill for the chilly.

That's now collectively known as "Mt. Pleasant"

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  I would think the last thing they are worried about is new menus.  They have a PR problem on their hands.  Look for Metroplex and the County PR machine to re-write the facts of this story.

Only the Gazetto has mentioned it. The MSM is trying to avoid reporting on this. And nobody, ever, will say that Schenectady has a major growing gang problem. The City has gang bangers in the junior high but no one will mention it. This major gang problem will not disappear by looking the other way.

Urban renewal 101 - you fix the neighborhoods first, then you create a downtown business district - not the other way around. The City hasn't provided a safe place for families or working class people to live and raise their children. How did Metroplex think the yellow brick road to Proctor's would
flourish if taxpayers are jumping ship? You reap what you sow.  

So true. You know more about urban planning than Czar Ray. Where did he get his planning degree from again? lol.

     According to my many Downtown sources Metrograft is tapped out. The well has run dry. No more governmental gin mills! DEMS are furious at the lack of meaningful job creation. Those waiting for governmental grease can go pound salt. After Savage gets trounced for State Senate watch the entire "working together" house of cards collapse. Smart ones are already locating exits.

It shows that he only cares about the neighborhood around him, and his box office sales numbers, not the actual city.  Metroplex thinks that it can't survive without Proctors, and Proctors knows that it has the Metroplex and the County Legislature in it's pocket.