Hmmmm....Ya Think?
Media types are genuine morons:
- There are many
factors that are making it hard for the downtown shopping districts to
fill empty spaces, but could crime be one of the hurdles?
Smash-and-grabs and retail theft have spiked in Chicago in the last
several months.
After previous I-Team reports, we heard from viewers asking if crime was keeping businesses away. So we dug into the data and spoke to experts close to the issue.
Thieves driving vehicles right through store windows aren't rare. Retail crimes have businesses like Chicago Sports on the Mag Mile on guard, but they're resilient.
"We don't consider leaving," said owner Tyler Reyes. "We've been open since the eighties, but I do think currently it has been a big factor, especially during since the pandemic. All the, you know, the rioting, the looting."
But could current, persistent crime be keeping businesses from filling a record high number of empty storefronts? The Loop has a current vacancy rate of 30%, and the Mag Mile has a vacancy rate of 26% according to Stone Realty.
Once you work crime into the business equation (which includes high taxes, high rent, high parking costs, declining foot traffic, costly insurance) you can see why vacancy rates are at thirty percent....and climbing.
How could anyone do business when you're losing money?
Labels: crime, money questions
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
51 Comments:
The whole place is collapsing and it’s picking up speed.
Dollar Tree, Family Dollar, & Dollar General Will Be The
New Shopping Experience For The Maggot Mile. And
For Your Eating Enjoyment A 7-11 Big Gulp & Nachos!
Would be a great location for a Goodwill or Salvation Army meg store if the
area keeps turning to shithole like downtown State Street is now.
100 million for my friends or friends of BJ
Having a State's Attorney who doesn't do her job as well as a Governor who coddles criminals and harasses law abiding citizens doesn't help matters.
Amazon delivers to your front door with ease. No worries about being robbed or carjacked or worse yet kilt by dude and his cohorts.
don't worry,,,, the liberal news will send out one of their crack "reporters" to interview a liberal business owner who will say everything is fine and they love doing business in the city
The pooch store owner is careful to trace the crime and rioting to “the pandemic”, not the state sponsored anarcho-tyranny that it is. I suppose he just doesn’t want to be victimized for telling the truth, but fact is that 2020 was Year Zero in Revolutionary America.
I don't go downtown. Traffic sucks going down there. You'd get killed on public transit. And you can't walk one block without being asked for money. Then there's the mentally deranged homeless people screaming in the middle of the street. Which I could handle more than the packs of ghetto mutts roaming around looking for people to rob and assault.
The I in I-Team could only stand for idiot.
It’s so cute when 2-5-7-9-32 all play dumb and to maintain the libtard agenda by playing dumb. By the way, nobody was asking Ch7 why businesses are staying away.
And who is responsible, could it be our constituents, could it be our leaders, the mystery deepens.
The real problem in a nutshell;
All Democrats are Communists
It’s not only downtown, it’s everywhere. Jewel at 103rd and Cicero in Oak Lawn is having all kinds of problems. Was in there recently and they had their liquor aisle completely sealed off. Manager said “customers” were filling shopping carts and menacing employing as they left without paying. By the police responded of course people were long gone.
Used to love to take the kids downtown at Christmas time, we really enjoyed the lavish displays in the store front windows, and the shopping. Wouldn’t even consider taking the grandkids down there today it would be a death wish for sure ! These ghetto fucking mutts have destroyed it, and no one is safe shopping downtown anymore ! The progressive socialist democrats have destroyed this once great city that’s now circling the drain the way of Detroit!
The real problem is that we have only two political parties and both of them are corrupt. We have a system in which those with money own both political parties.
The liberal who voted for this doesn’t shop there anymore.
Years ago the community activists always want to take over the Water Tower the day after Thanksgiving, now they’ve ruined it, (they ruin everything). Soon it will look like Ford City, ( which they also ruined). Savages looking to blame everyone else for their normal everyday behavior.
Well, there are the porch pirates.
State street has a ton of empty store fronts now. Just north of DePaul U, it has turned for the worse recently. North Michigan Ave and River North (just west of Michigan Ave.) have turned into really scary sketchy areas at night. There used to be tons of people visiting from the burbs, eating out and enjoying the City at night. Now, there are thugs on almost every street corner or just standing in door fronts. Very uneasy feeling because they are not there to eat out or shop. River North have very little foot traffic, especially compared to five or six years ago. Remember when we had horse drawn carriages on Michigan Ave and Marshall Fields? Chicago was so elegant. Now it is just scary once the sun goes down because you know the probability of being victimized has skyrocketed in the once posh and fun areas. So very sad. I guess everything changes … unfortunately for the worse. I still have found memories but would not take my family there today. Not after what I see on a weekly basis.
Social service agencies etc., added. The media has their narrative. Maybe a few more rocks into a window during a newscast...".oh it's the immigrants again" Polish? German? Irish? You know what your eyes see. You know where NOT to go at night, on weekends. Despite the "Orange Man Bad" and "Covid death counts" there is, on occasion, a news story.....
River North was a great destination to visit restaurants and enjoy a stroll through the city. Amazon isn’t the issue. The issue is the much higher chance of becoming a victim. I just stay away. My wife and I used to go there a lot - now we stay away.
Clear out most of those useless hide inside spots.
Place those officers on foot patrols in the business community.
Implode society from within. Pass the borscht, comrades.
"Smash and grabs and retail thefts have spiked in recent months"????? Really? They have been spiked for years with Foxx not prosecuting being a main reason. Add in the Soros prosecutors being installed throughout the country and it spreads throughout the DemocRATS land. What kind of "investigative reporting" can these idiots be capable of?
Hmmm? Could biased, crappy reporting contribute to the fact that people don't liberal media anymore. Inquiring minds want to know.
Quincy Magoo Says:
The U.S. News Media is mostly nothing more than a hideout Trohan Horse for the Communist Party.
Sounds like a fun place to visit!
https://youtu.be/Cn6kEsloMdE?si=ihwU-54gybhQlSHG
Add a fish store, wig and nail salon, a MBC church and a rib tip & wing shop and you have a winner
Why do people continue to equal communism with crime? The commies were pretty well known for their prison system. Commit a crime in China and see how it works out for you.
Sad. Just a mere 25 years ago, State Street got turned around from the wasteland it was for decades. Now it’s back to looking like crap.
What about the exempts in charge of the Districts in 018 & 1? What about coming up with actual crime control strategies instead of having us do traffic missions and bring in petty blue cards. Let the tact teams do their thing. Making us focus on #’s instead of actual policing will continue the same shit. It doesn’t work!!! Our own data shows you dummies!
When said liberal business owner finds that their business is no longer insurable due to the crime rate in the area, it will actually take a crack reporter to find another business that will give an interview that buttresses the narrative.
It’s one group in society causing all this havoc. Everyone is afraid to say who it is.
More room for Spirit stores.
The willful cluelessness reminds me of the story in the Scum-Times today about the homeless living in Gompers Park. Group of neighbors are saying they keep their kids away from there now because it isn't safe and there's been illegal activity. So, of course, the Scum-Times talks to a couple lower-level academics from Berkeley and Michigan State who (from their ivory towers hundreds and thousands of miles away) say the neighbors are wrong and that they're "stigmatizing" the homeless.
OT: Brandon's Body #3. Woman shot dead in an alley on the East Side. Laid there a couple of days before somebody called about her because she hadn't moved. When was she shot? Who knows?
It’s easy take the gloves off let the police be the police let us chase these idiots before they even show up to smash in a store … oh wait I was dreaming those are the old days .
Walmart was smart to leave after taking huge losses. Even though they fought Daley and the 50 thieves for over 10 years to get in to Chicago.
Can I walk while I eat them..?
Maybe if Barz would lead by example and come up with actual good methods to reduce crime and be at work a little more often instead of out of state bears games and throwing his tact teams under the bus when they do what he demands there would be less crime and would attract more merchants.
This is from a post earlier in the week on another thread.
OT. Just left the Bears game in Indy. How is Commander Mikey Barz able to work for the Bears/NFL in Indy. Exempts aren’t supposed to have part time jobs and a Commander went down for the Sox game shooting. Barz was a IAD sgt rat so I’m sure the fix is in.
“Spellman was dumped for Sox park incident. Barz is the biggest scammer and phony on this job. He screwed over many coppers while he was in IAD. Using city car and being on medical working part time is not very smart Mikey!!!”
So I’m hearing from someone in the know that they’ve already checked the GPS on his department vehicle and department cell phone too
and have reviewed video from the actual game. Mikey Barz Da Superstarz (just ask him) may have a problem unless fast Freddy Waller Da Baller throws him yet another lifeline. Larry may want to need to make some changes before this weasel pops!
Response to last weeks comment about Spellman.
Very simple, he’s Fred Waller’s bitch who covered up a lot of shit over the years and is “exempt” (no pun) from following the rules. He also works as the lead authenticator for MLB/CUBS safekeeping balls, as he does with Waller’s.
Check out the link below right in page 1 with photo’s of this clown and all. Different strokes for different folks.
Have fun with this one SCC.
“TO PROTECT AND SERVE
While the job sounds like fun, it's not something to be taken lightly. Nor is Barz a person to be taken lightly. In his day job, the affable
43-year-old is a sergeant in the Bureau of Internal Affairs for the Chicago Police Department.”
http://content.mlb.com/documents/5/5/2/262424552/102013_authentics_news.pdf
I honestly wonder, are these media-types feigning ignorance and stupidity? Or do they really just have absolutely no sense?
wow,,, sure is hard keeping track of all the things the dems and libs and boofers destroy,,,,,downtown, ford city,, the brickyard,,, the lake front,,,, the public schools,,,, public housing,,,,riverview park,,,,, the post office,,,,, nice neighborhoods,,,,,etc,,,etc,,,,etc,,,
Oh well … another one bites the Brandon dust.
I sure hope you’re not implying the Amish again. I see the Amish at Union Station all the time. They are just passing through via the trains. If it’s not the Amish, who can it be?
Go to the 900 Block of West Randolph, the new hot entertainment spot. Breathe in all the weed, and observe all the Venezuelans on stolen scooters and stolen electric bicycles that deliver Uber eats. Notice all the fancy shops with boards on some of the windows. A block away is the Venezuelan shelter. Those shelters are owned by folks on the North shore. Beaks get wet, your tax dollars, hard at work. Follow the money. At the corner of Foster and Cumberland is an old office building. $545 MILLION dollars has gone through a certain a business in the last few years, "helping" these migrants. Follow the money. CWB should look into this.
They don't and won't get it or understand it.
The same reason certain particular neighborhoods are "food deserts"
These muts mentality is if we can't have it for free, then we will destroy it for all so nobody get it. Maybe if you hard charges working in "their" neighborhoods would stop policing them, they wouldn't venture out to other neighborhoods looking to commit crime ..
Can't blame the savages for adapting
ABC: So, do businesses close when they're robbed blind, every damn day?
Me: Are ya new here? Go have a chat with Kimm Foxx... morons.
The decoy teams should be resurrected.
A rainy, cold November mid-afternoon downtown Chicago X-mas shopping has a certain Jen-Assay Kwah! Well worth the busted teeth & 2 week headaches plus your Hush-Puppies will hold your loved ones bloodstains for decades. Cherish the Joy of Growing Up Middle Class!
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