By C.B.
State Street Cartoon
CBcartoons
April 2, 2022, 10:10 am
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I’d like the cartoonist to drawn one showing a female bicyclist causing two children to fall as they were walking across State Street to attend the Granada children’s concert Saturday afternoon. The grandmother should be shown picking up the children and pulling them back and yelling for someone to stop the bicyclist. Not fun for them or the families watching it unfold.
Cartoon is spot on. The latest scuttlebutt on our late great City of SB: Macy’s and adjacent parking areas have been sold to condo developers. This came from a store manager in a struggling store in what is left of the La Cumbre shopping center stores. Can anyone confirm? The manager’s reason for the debacle there: greedy landlords and high rents.
Downtown SB basically sucks nowadays. Feel free to argue/disagree.
State Street sucks
holy toledo are the rents actually that high?
Haha, yeah. This one is pretty spot on!
I worked there for over 6 years. You can say it’s fake but that doesn’t make it not true.
Right on, C.B. — nice work!
State Street landlords are due for a spanking.
Probably true but this is still a fine piece — great dialogue, good artwork…
State Street was losing businesses- and had way too many empty storefronts before the promenade. When it was full of the “hustle and bustle “ of traffic and the people population pushed all together, concentrated on the sidewalks, it was less noticeable, and with the pandemic adding to the empty space numbers, it’s sad.
The rents are crazy high on state, that’s why the mom and pop, and small businesses are unable to remain. A big problem is that these big corporations or wealthy land owners that have empty spaces get tax write offs, so they don’t seem to care if it stays empty. I have heard of other towns that had similar issues, start charging some sort of “empty/ vacancy tax” that charges the owners a tax/ fee for having an empty building, making it worth their while to get renters. And it apparently is working for them. Something has to be done.
And mixed use is a great idea. When I was young I knew people who lived above the State Street shops and businesses downtown. Having residents there keep the area populated day and night and can help reduce crime by having eyes on the area ( their neighborhood) 24/7.
Like the “empty/vacancy” tax idea!
There are way more thriving small businesses on State St than there are vacant storefronts.
@11:18, I was wondering when the pro-development, investor landlords would chime in. Glad you’re here!
Old Navy was paying $90,000 a month for their spot on State Street several years ago, so yes, rents are that high.
Someone had to build the house you live in, the building at your place of employment, the grocery store you buy your food from, the restaurant where you connect with friends…..
@1216 – someone also doesn’t need to jack up rent above the market rate to raise their own salaries.