went by it yesterday after paying an installment on property taxes and the side of the building is falling apart, the stucco looking like the DSS building its cracked and crumbling and towards the bottom bricks missing etc. Allready small area of graffiti.
went by it yesterday after paying an installment on property taxes and the side of the building is falling apart, the stucco looking like the DSS building its cracked and crumbling and towards the bottom bricks missing etc. Allready small area of graffiti.
I'm sure Gillen will get a paint crew out ASAP to cover any graffiti...can't miss a photo op.
Good to know that the taxpayers money paid for that paint job...and most likely for all the subsequent ones to cover the endless amounts of graffiti ....
I don't think anyone is actually against this new eatery/bar.
It's more about taxpayer's money being used to create it....AND.....the residents shouldering the cost via tax dollars....AND.....the pathetic condition in the rest of the city!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
The new Mexican Radio restaurant is yet another diamond in the crown of the City-County of Schenectady's Renaissance. The building looks great -- really brightens up Downtown. Be prepared for a lot more positive economic development projects to be announced in the City-County of Schenectady in the weeks and months ahead.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
The new Mexican Radio restaurant is yet another diamond in the crown of the City-County of Schenectady's Renaissance. The building looks great -- really brightens up Downtown. Be prepared for a lot more positive economic development projects to be announced in the City-County of Schenectady in the weeks and months ahead.
Explain why you CHEER for a handful of minimum wage jobs, people who will have to be subsidized by the taxpayers in the city, in a building for which the financially struggling taxpaying homeowner will have to pay the taxes for.
Just another building that contributes to the reduction of the city's tax base.
Just another place for you to stuff your face.
DV, how about telling us what the taxpaying homeowners will be getting for het another downtown gin mill?
Tell us DV, tell us what your buddy dems have done to the city' tax base in the past 10 years. Cam you tell us????? Of course, too embarrassed to answer that because you know the dems are running the city and you are in a desperate attempt to brown nose them in hopes of getting a high paid do nothing job.
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
Be prepared to see your tax bills keep skyrocketing so that we taxpayers can continue to fund a downtown full of gin mills and Galesi tenants.
Metroplex is a sham...the upkeep, the lighting, the facades and the endless tax-exemptions are all going to support for-profit bars which bring less and less in sales taxes every year.
Rudnicks, Olenders, Bancock Bistro, Mr. James and the latest casualty (Scautaub) are all driven out of the city for their YEARS, DECADES of paying taxes and doing business.
Rudnicks, Olenders, Bancock Bistro, Mr. James and the latest casualty (Scautaub) are all driven out of the city for their YEARS, DECADES of paying taxes and doing business.
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Yes true.
How about it DV, How about commenting on the long time taxpaying businesses downtown that closed??????? How about speaking about the endless reduction in sales tax revenue under your dem buddies????????
TOTAL SILENCE from DV on the FACTS. Just keeps spewing LIES LIES LIES, he NEVER NEVER NEVER provides on teeny weeny shred of EVIDENCRE of the things he says.
How many years has he been claiming his dems have lowered taxes in the county, repeats this fairy tale over and over and over, but NEVER provides any documentation, no EVIDENCE, no actual numbers from official sources to prove what he says.
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
Be prepared to see your tax bills keep skyrocketing so that we taxpayers can continue to fund a downtown full of gin mills and Galesi tenants.
Metroplex is a sham...the upkeep, the lighting, the facades and the endless tax-exemptions are all going to support for-profit bars which bring less and less in sales taxes every year.
Rudnicks, Olenders, Bancock Bistro, Mr. James and the latest casualty (Scautaub) are all driven out of the city for their YEARS, DECADES of paying taxes and doing business.
Pathetic...criminal...and disgusting.
Rudnicks and Olenders closed because of THEIR own failed business models. Bangkok Bistro relocated and Mr. James closed due to deaths in the family and family issues. Scautub just moved over the bridge -- and well -- I will keep my personal opinions about them to my self.
Businesses come and go -- look at all the businesses that were here - say - 120 years ago and how many of them closed or moved -- even during Schenectady's boom years (1920's to 1950's).
Metroplex is doing a great job now -- a hell of lot better than the Farley-Jurzynski years when Downtown had almost become a ghost town and GE was ready to pull out of town for good.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
The above-mentioned businesses were in the City for DECADES!! They paid taxes and contributed to the sales tax base more than any of the tax-exempt, government funded businesses in downtown EVER will!!
With millions in metroplex funds, any business can flourish...oh wait...not the Parker Inn, or Cornells. And Cardio Mag took Metroplex money and relocated to Albany as did the owner of the Vandyke (wait, didn't he leave Metroplex high and dry by $350K?).
And didn't the sales tax revenues for Schenectady County drop 4% in 2013........
"Arguing with liberals is like playing chess with a pigeon; no matter how good I am at chess, the pigeon is just going to knock out the pieces, crap on the board, and strut around like it is victorious." - Author Unknown
While we anxiously await the opening of Mexican Radio, I would be remiss in not plugging that other great restaurant which is delighting the taste-buds of patrons from near and far -- Dolce Vita. This is an awesome restaurant and judging by the packed house - it is doing quite well.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
Try supporting a local family business which hasn't received a Metroplex handout and is paying their fair share of taxes in the City.
Pettas comes to mind...they haven't received the handouts Aperitivo, Johnnys or Bombers have received. Hard to compete with other businesses when they aren't paying taxes or upkeep.
Metroplex has created an unfair system in the City. Those family-run taxpaying-businesses cannot compete with a Metroplex funded, tax-exempt restaurants.
Metroplex kills capitalism when taxpayers money benefits only those connected.....
Don't know if the current exterior paint job on MEX.RADIO is the final one, but everytime we go by (3/27) it looks like it needs to be painted. Anyone know?
Rudnicks and Olenders closed because of THEIR own failed business models. Bangkok Bistro relocated and Mr. James closed due to deaths in the family and family issues. Scautub just moved over the bridge -- and well -- I will keep my personal opinions about them to my self.
Businesses come and go -- look at all the businesses that were here - say - 120 years ago and how many of them closed or moved -- even during Schenectady's boom years (1920's to 1950's).
Metroplex is doing a great job now -- a hell of lot better than the Farley-Jurzynski years when Downtown had almost become a ghost town and GE was ready to pull out of town for good.
Sorry DV, you are WONG. James hairstylist closed because your dems brought in a billionaire competition (at taxpayer expense) Paul Mitchell and made Mr James pay Paul Mitchell's taxes. James closed BEFORE he died !!!!!!!!!
Rudnicks did NOT have bad business sense, but because your dems taxed them right out of business. How can ANY business downtown exists these days without taxpayer handouts from your desm.
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
and the side of the building is falling apart, the stucco looking like the DSS building 
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Opening the week of April 20th! Your tax dollars at work! Now all the sheeple packing Johnny's can move over to the next big thang. 
