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Old 02-11-2019, 12:08 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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My post is an elephant in the room that only AquaDulce acknowledged.

I posed the issues and the solutions.

 
Old 02-11-2019, 12:33 PM
 
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Who misses Hooters? My favorite memory of that place was when my mom was in town and wanted to go eat. She saw the sign and said 'lets go in there'. She had no idea what a 'Hooters' was .

When I first moved here and lived down in the 04 I used to love walking there on a nice fall day and watching college football in the afternoon. They would open up the garage doors for fresh air and you would get a nice view of downtown and the event center. Is it high brow? No. Does everything have to be? Does everything have to be a high rise condo with an overpriced bistro or gastropub in the bottom? It's a rhetorical question, the people and planners of Austin have already spoken.
 
Old 02-11-2019, 12:47 PM
 
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When I first moved here and lived down in the 04 I used to love walking there on a nice fall day and watching college football in the afternoon. They would open up the garage doors for fresh air and you would get a nice view of downtown and the event center. Is it high brow? No. Does everything have to be? Does everything have to be a high rise condo with an overpriced bistro or gastropub in the bottom? It's a rhetorical question, the people and planners of Austin have already spoken.
I consider Hooters to be a relatively new addition to that spot. Seems like there was a place there that had the word pelican in its name. Can't remember.
 
Old 02-11-2019, 12:50 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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When I first moved here and lived down in the 04 I used to love walking there on a nice fall day and watching college football in the afternoon. They would open up the garage doors for fresh air and you would get a nice view of downtown and the event center. Is it high brow? No. Does everything have to be? Does everything have to be a high rise condo with an overpriced bistro or gastropub in the bottom? It's a rhetorical question, the people and planners of Austin have already spoken.
Ah, Hooters is just mass-produced, that is all.

The real question is - do the resident of Austin want to subsidize Hooters by paying higher taxes so Hooters can pay lower taxes? I really don't care WHAT operates there, as long as it pulls its weight. When I can't pay the taxes, I will leave. When Hooters can't pay the taxes, they leave. It is also possible that too many people decided not to go to Hooters anymore and that it has little to do with taxes.
 
Old 02-11-2019, 12:52 PM
 
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The real question is - do the residents of Austin want to subsidize Hooters by paying higher taxes so Hooters can pay lower taxes?
Is that even a question, really?
 
Old 02-11-2019, 12:52 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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I consider Hooters to be a relatively new addition to that spot. Seems like there was a place there that had the word pelican in its name. Can't remember.
Is that where Pelican's Wharf used to be?
 
Old 02-11-2019, 12:53 PM
 
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Is that even a question, really?
No, just the option (or perhaps rhetorical question) - if the commercial taxes downtown are lowered so that these business can stay, then the deficit has to be made up somewhere.
 
Old 02-11-2019, 12:54 PM
 
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Is that where Pelican's Wharf used to be?
I think so! Whoa--memories.

I think I only went there once. It wasn't all that great. But just thinking about it brings back memories of riding through that area on my bike in the 80s and 90s.
 
Old 02-11-2019, 12:59 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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I think so! Whoa--memories.

I think I only went there once. It wasn't all that great. But just thinking about it brings back memories of riding through that area on my bike in the 80s and 90s.
I think Hooters dates back to about 1999 - I seem to recall it being 'new' when I ran the Austin Marathon back in 1999. Maybe it was a few years old at that time, though, not sure.

Magic Time Machine restaurant was just a bit further down on Riverside back in the 80s and 90s, iirc.

And If Aussies 'volleybar' can hold on down there and not go bankrupt, it isn't all about taxes....
 
Old 02-11-2019, 01:01 PM
 
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I think Hooters dates back to about 1999 - I seem to recall it being 'new' when I ran the Austin Marathon back in 1999. Maybe it was a few years old at that time, though, not sure.

Magic Time Machine restaurant was just a bit further down on Riverside back in the 80s and 90s, iirc.

And If Aussies 'volleybar' can hold on down there and not go bankrupt, it isn't all about taxes....
MTM closed around 1985.
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