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Asked By BeachGirl on September 8, 2009
Subject: Ship Bottom making things miserable...
I've heard from several neighbors and even businesses about Ship Bottom making it near impossible to build/add/fix-up properties. Has anyone else had this experience? The same name at the borough keeps coming up as being problematic again and again.
Just curious.
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Submitted By Stu K on September 8, 2009
I've had no problems (added a bathroom)- just got to get your building permits
Submitted By Island Guy on March 10, 2010
I heard the same from many people. I heard they fight people especially businesses. Look at all the empty businesses. Most had problems before the recession. I counted 12 commerical properties that were closed, for sale, for rent, etc... They should help businesses. I am hearing it second hand, but from many different people that the town was the reason the Chinese restaurant is closed because they made it so hard. Also, is it true most businesses need architectural plans to open. That adds costs. Why no outdoor seating for restaurants? Helping businesses creates jobs and anchors in the community.
Submitted By Fact Check on March 10, 2010
That isn't why the Szechuan Gourmet closed! If you knew anything about what happened you would know the owner decided - for some unknown reason - to have one of the most expensive LBI architects design him a building, which he had built, that required him to carry a $1 million mortgage and his business simply couldn't support it. After he died his wife and son tried to make it but could not. SB may be a pain to deal with, but you can't blame the poor business decisions of owners on the borough. Next you will blame the demise of the other Chinese restaurant and Joey's (is Subway gone too?) on the borough instead of poor business practices or the economy.
Submitted By Fish Hed on March 10, 2010
Szechuan Gourmet? On LBI? What a great idea...NOT
Submitted By Fact Check on March 11, 2010
Maybe you don't appreciate good Chinese food but theirs was excellent for many years and the restaurant is missed by many on the Island and surrounding mainland.
Submitted By Island Guy on March 11, 2010
Was that $1 million dollar mortgage use to pay for an expensive architect to keep up with town regulations, zoning issues. Did the town fight them that maybe they opened late and had no income to pay for their mortgage. I ask anyone to drive through and look at the for sale signs, for rents signs, and chained off parking lots from old businesses. It is an embarrassment for the entry way to the island. Move some of the bay festivals to the business district and allow outdoor seating instead of building a new town hall and you will see an immediate revival. No one stands a chance to open a business there.
Submitted By Fact Check on March 12, 2010
Take a look at the building - it is the usual over-the-top expensively appointed homage-paying monument Michael Ryan always designs. The owner who passed away got caught up in the design and forgot he was running a business. The whole family saw it happening and couldn't stop it. Ship Bottom had zero to do with it - in fact they still allowed apartments upstairs and zero off-street parking. If they were going to cause trouble don't you think that would be the first thing they would look at?
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