Posted by phiber101 (anonymous) on October 20, 2009 at 8:35 p.m. (Suggest removal)

so basically the city of Emporia is going to hold this up until July 2010 and then so "whoops, guess we can build it now but we really wanted to!". bunch of freaking jokes those "higher ups" in our public offices!

Posted by oh4theluvof (anonymous) on October 20, 2009 at 8:52 p.m. (Suggest removal)

No!!!! Really????? Huh! ;-)

Posted by ToxicPink (anonymous) on October 20, 2009 at 9:22 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Can I just have a Gordmans instead? I want someplace that's...great to buy clothes in Emporia.

=D

Posted by JohnDoe (anonymous) on October 20, 2009 at 10:34 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I'm sure the economic climate going from bad to worse in the last couple of years had nothing to do with the decision... by Lowe's. A national chain. City officials might be able to attract new businesses to town but you might be asking too much if you think they can control the economy or the decision-making of a home improvement giant with hundreds of stores in the US.

Perhaps this is a blessing in disguise. Do we really need another hardware store?

Posted by ToxicPink (anonymous) on October 21, 2009 at 12:48 p.m. (Suggest removal)

No we don't, we need more shoes. *nod*

Posted by create (anonymous) on October 21, 2009 at 1:15 p.m. (Suggest removal)

A decent clothing store would be nice.

I know, how about a really fabulous bakery that can bake real bread from scratch, the kind with crispy crust and chewy middle instead of the soft-airy-gummy horrible and disgusting stuff that passes for bread offered around here.

Amanda's has beautiful bread, but that's for her sandwiches. I mean a real city bakery that bakes nothing but bread. Maybe a few pies. And when the bread runs out, that's it, they close until the next day. No doughnuts, no pastries, no cakes. Just damn good bread and pie.

Posted by admireed (anonymous) on October 21, 2009 at 2:12 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Crete..This would be great but, how many loaves would they have to sell each day to make a profit? 100 loaves @ $5 might make it?

Posted by Blue_Dog (anonymous) on October 21, 2009 at 2:38 p.m. (Suggest removal)

create, have you tried the mexican bakery on east 6th. Wife buys great cookies there. Don't know about bread.

Posted by create (anonymous) on October 22, 2009 at 9:30 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Yes, Blue_Dog, thank you. I do go occasionally to that Mexican Bakery. They do have great cookies and I like their pineapple pastries -- need those like I need another hole in the head -- but they don't make bread. Maybe I should talk to them since they already have the equipment in place.

You're right, admire, the profit structure might present a problem, but a small place might be able to swing it. This little Mexican place seems to make it.

When I was in Chicago this summer, I saw several of those kinds of bakeries, just small ones in store fronts where people buy their bread daily. Italian, French, Jewish Rye and not much more. People were lined up.

Of course, population = demand = profit.

Wal Mart has artisan breads in their bread section, but they keep packaging the warm breads in plastic and they get soggy. The last package of English muffins I bought there was like that, soggy on one side because they packed them while they were still warm. But that's Wal Mart. They always seem to be in a rush.

Posted by HenryVIII (anonymous) on October 22, 2009 at 1:43 p.m. (Suggest removal)

create,
If we could get some big businesses like Lowes to set-up shop here, we could attract a larger population that would be able to support a local bread shop. Too bad there is a lot of resistance to development/progress ‘round here…
'enry

Posted by admireed (anonymous) on October 22, 2009 at 2:33 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Lowes will not increase the population. Result will be less folks here because of lost jobs at closed competition. More industrial/service employment like ,1000 more, might make a Lowes feasible. Lowes management would have to be nuts to put a big box store here while we continue to shrink

Posted by create (anonymous) on October 22, 2009 at 5:23 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Sorry Henry, you won't convince me about Lowes. I prefer to see local money stay in town not be sent to a corporate headquarters elsewhere. Also, not only will it cause profit strain and more unemployment of those now employed at other hardware/lumber stores in town, I don't see anyone moving to Emporia because it has a Lowe's. I would, however see people moving to Emporia if big industry were to open up the picture and provide jobs, lots of jobs. I'm with admire here.

Posted by biscuitboy (anonymous) on October 22, 2009 at 6:19 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Can anybody explain to me why every time I hear all the hoopla start about a new business coming to Emporia...I can rest assured it will be duplicating one or more businesses already here. What little gain we might have from a Lowes would be more than off-set by losses to Mark II and Sutherlands. Both who have been here for us all along.

We don't need another home improvement store or factory outlet. What we need is a place to buy a shirt...or a good pair of shoes at a decent price.

Posted by admireed (anonymous) on October 22, 2009 at 8:50 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Dollar General and Salvation Army have cheap shoes.