400 New Jobs to Be Created in Victorville (Orange, Palm Desert: new construction, tax)

[18Montclair]

Excellent!

400 New Jobs to Be Created in Victorville, Calif. - MarketWatch

[Twinkle Toes]

Cool, but they couldn't have just used the old Heilig-Meyers distribution center on Amargosa Road off the freeway? I believe that building is vacant and has been for quite some time.

[David Aguilar]

Originally Posted by Twinkle Toes

Cool, but they couldn't have just used the old Heilig-Meyers distribution center on Amargosa Road off the freeway? I believe that building is vacant and has been for quite some time.

Nah, building new buildings and tearing down old ones creates jobs.

[Twinkle Toes]

Originally Posted by David Aguilar

Nah, building new buildings and tearing down old ones creates jobs.

Yeah. That's what they like to do here in my area. There are SO many vacant buildings, and yet Red Lobster can't locate in one of the hundreds of vacant former restaurant buildings. Oh no ... Red Lobster has to build their very own brand new building. Never mind the fact that many of the empty buildings are fairly new themselves.

[Donn2390]

I would think if I were going to invest millions in a business, that it would be my choice where that business should be located, and whether or not to use an old, recycled building. If it made financial sense to reuse someone else's old restaurant, that would be the way I would go, but I would base my decision on my own knowledge, not from a suggestion I read on a web site..!
It's possible those fairly new, empty places are out of business for a reason, like LOCATION...!

[Twinkle Toes]

Originally Posted by Donn2390

I would think if I were going to invest millions in a business, that it would be my choice where that business should be located, and whether or not to use an old, recycled building. If it made financial sense to reuse someone else's old restaurant, that would be the way I would go, but I would base my decision on my own knowledge, not from a suggestion I read on a web site..!
It's possible those fairly new, empty places are out of business for a reason, like LOCATION...!

Not necessarily. The location where RL wants to build a new structure already has several vacant restaurant buildings which are probably no more than 5 years old. This is at the corner of a major intersection.

[Gandalara]

The vacant buildings have competitor cooties ...

[Twinkle Toes]

Originally Posted by Gandalara

The vacant buildings have competitor cooties ...

Maybe. I don't really know why some of these restaurants went out of business because they were always packed and had great food. Corporate decisions, I guess.

We had a Macaroni Grill in Palm Desert which was one of my favorites and there were always people there and on weekends there was a line out the door to get in! Then ... they took it away from us!

Next to go was a Ruby's Diner. Again, a very popular place with good food (I liked the malts!) and that building is sitting vacant in a high traffic area across from The River in Rancho Mirage.

The Bing Crosby's - also across from The River - went out about 2 years ago and that is a new building, probably about 4 years old, and in a high traffic location. But I think it went out because the owners were involved in some type of fraud or tax evasion or something.

There was also a Chili's here. Not my favorite, but it seemed to be a "happening" place. Gone!

Thing is ... most of these buildings are probably no more than 5 years old. If somebody feels they need to build a new building when there are so many vacant already, that's their business. I just think it's a waste of money and an unnecessary raping of the natural land in the valley. I think a lot of people come here for the beauty of the place and to actually see some open spaces. If they keep building on every available piece of land, this place is going to look like Orange County - the very thing most of us moved here to get away from.

[David Aguilar]

That's right.

Unfortunately, a lot of these chain places have strict 'building requirements' that purposely don't allow them to move into "any old building", which is why they almost always build new construction.

Inversely, that's why we see old Taco Bell's as tax offices and old El Pollo Loco's as family Mexican restaurants (independents seem to be the only ones willing to take on the old chain building monstrosities).

[loloroj]

What is the pay and what are the benes, if any????/