Comments on: Local: Adams Street Market stinks – literally

By: Peoria Pundit Â» Local: Hy-Vee coming to Peoria

Peoria Pundit Â» Local: Hy-Vee coming to Peoria — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:55:48 +0000

[...] two cents: Personally, I think the former Adams Street Market would be a perfect location for a health food store. Why not? It will give sprout-eating liberals a [...]

By: LLA

LLA — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:46:37 +0000

To answer some of the questions that have already appeared. He agreed to be open untill 10:00 p.m. not 12:00 I don’t know where midnight slipped into the picture. If all you people can remember a few months ago the beautiful picture of fresh fruits and vegetables galore that was portrayed to be part of this store??? well people it did not play in Peoria. Also the promise of a large fresh meat varity to be present also did’nt play in Peoria right from the beginning. Don’t you think it’s about time that our council person and this city sits down with the long time residents of the Southside while there are still some still living here and ask them what they would like to have and listen to them for a change. Why would I spend my money weekly at a place that is no better than the one I refuse to shop at on the Southside already. If they would spend half the time they have spent trying to get of the police on trying to find out why people are not shopping there and fix it maybe it could be a success. Why do other area residents in this city think that the people of the Southside should have to shop at a store they would’nt even step into let alone shop? You talk about a slap in the face!!!!!! How about the picture of a Northside resident who has never lived one day in the Southside being the savior for us poor dumb people who can’t make our own case on why this store is failing????? Do you think we would ever be consulted when businesses fail in the 4th or 5th district?? I don’t think so…. Mr. Abud threatned the council right from the start that if they did not create a TIF.area for the store he would leave. Now he is threatening again that if they don’t relieve him of the police agreement he will leave. WELL I SAY GOODBYE AND GOOD RIDENS……….
YOUR STORE SURE IS NOT AN ASSET TO THE SOUTHSIDE. REMEMBER WHY WE DID’NT WANT LIQUOR PEOPLE?????? WELL WATCH AND SEE IF WHAT WE SAID DON”T COME TO PASS.

By: The Peoria Chronicle » Blog Archive » South siders not supporting supermarket

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:56:08 +0000

[...] Here’s one possibility. Billy Dennis visited the store and reports that the place stinks like rotten meat and has no fresh vegetables. If that’s the case (and I don’t know if it’s a chronic problem, or if it was a fluke the time Billy visited), then Abud is never going to get loyal customers, and he’ll be back regularly asking for relief from other regulations to which he enthusiastically agreed just a few months back. [...]

By: SD

SD — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:32:44 +0000

Its pretty sad when a store that only been open a few weeks is already in the toilet. The people in that area definitely needed a good, healthy store within walking distance and one without liquor could have flourished, despite what others say. I spoke to Gulley a while back about a store we had considered putting in in the area and he said he was no longer interested in our project. So now we have what we have.

By: Vonster

Vonster — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:48:13 +0000

Stole my fire, Bill. This was all about being a liquor store from the get go.

By: Billy Dennis

Billy Dennis — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 06:12:28 +0000

Silly question indeed. THE GUY IS RUNNING A LIQUOR STORE.

By: chefkevin

chefkevin — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 05:34:47 +0000

Silly question alert! Why does he need to be open unitl midnight? He could reduce his private security cost by $90 a day if he closed at 9 PM like Haddad’s does. Does he have that many shoppers between 9 and midnight?

By: Peo Proud

Peo Proud — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:54:12 +0000

I was never a fan of the condition placed on the license requiring him to hire off-duty police officers. In fact, I think it is a slap in the face to the residents of the area to assume that such a high level of government intervention is necessary to control the situation. I think that a better condition would be to have indicated that he would lose the license if he were proven to have sold liquor to anyone under age or allowed individuals to congregate on his property. That’s something he can control rather than what his customers do with the alcohol after they purchase it. Hold him accountable but provide a level playing field. Seems that we have as much trouble if not more with Sheridan Liquors and we don’t require them to have off-duty officers — in fact we put up a city funded camera to cover the area.

Personnally, I think there is as much a problem with drunk bar hoppers in the mainstreet area after midnight. Maybe the City Council should require that every new 4 a.m. liquor license applicant agree to hire off-duty officers for their bars. But we know that won’t happen when half the city council spends as much time at Kelleher’s (a likely beneficiary of a new 4 a.m. license thanks to BVA) as they do on conducting preparation for City Council meetings.

By: Peoria AntiPundit

Peoria AntiPundit — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:27:25 +0000

Billy sez: “….his store is revealed to be what neighborhood activists feared: A dirty, smelly place that exists only to peddle liquor and lottery tickets.”

I say: Huh, I knew it, Ricca knew it, in fact everyone who lives in the southend that cares about the neighborhood knew it, except Gulley, BVA, and all the great people who troll down here to have a look and just knew what was good for us.