FroggleRock
Active Member
I know it’s been posted elsewhere in one of the threads, but I wanted this to have its own post. Here’s the link to the petition to save The Pub. They’re already over 1,600 signatures:
Save The Pub Petition
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An-Cap Frog
Member
Correct me if I am wrong, but how do you petition that a business that willfully did not renew its lease to renew its lease?
FroggleRock
Active Member
From what I understand, they were not given a choice. TCU owns the lease and made a deal with JB to expand Buff Bros.
If that’s not the case and the owners just called it quits, then yeah, no point.
TopFrog
Lifelong Frog
Plus I would guess BB is paying more for the space.
Limey Frog
Full Member
I spent a lot (probably too much) time and money in Buffalo Brothers and seldom frequented the Pub, so I can't say this bothers me too much, personally. Now, if they were forcing a decent purveyor of intoxicating beverages out of business in favor of some morally and socially corrupting rubbish such as another t-shirt printery or frozen yoghurt place, I would be outraged.
froginmn
Full Member
I'm outraged that anyone spells yogurt in that way...
FroggleRock
Active Member
An-Cap is correct. The space itself is in a state of disrepair and the owners just don’t want to/can’t come up with the capital to fix it all. Which is weird…why does the tenant have to pay for that? Either way, that’s apparently the reason, so no amount of signatures can save it now.
An-Cap Frog
Member
In my Chicagoland suburb we had a little coffee shop that was doing fairly well located on a fairly prime corner of town. The owner of the building pretty much kicked the coffee shop out after the lease expired in favor for a restaurant concept. The coffee shop opened back up right down the street where is remains today. The former location is now on its third restaurant concept. I'm sure an increase in rent is attractive but sometimes you can step over dollars to pick up pennies.
06DallasFrog
Active Member
Tell Kelsey I said "what up".
RufeBruton
Active Member
Bring back the Frog Pond!!!
PurplFrawg
Administrator
and Burger Chef?
Chongo94
Active Member
I have to wonder where students go to drink these days especially as this is the last true college bar in that area….hell, the last true bar in that area.
I feel bad for TCU students that don’t get the experience of doing the college drinking and hanging out thing near campus. I guess they go to near Southside or Magnolia or god forbid, the atrociousness that is 7th street these days. In my day it was downtown some, near TCU most, with Snooki’s a close second.
I feel bad for TCU students that don’t get the experience of doing the college drinking and hanging out thing near campus. I guess they go to near Southside or Magnolia or god forbid, the atrociousness that is 7th street these days. In my day it was downtown some, near TCU most, with Snooki’s a close second.
BrewingFrog
Was I supposed to type something here?
The 21 year old drinking age killed them. Slowly, but surely, their customer base dried up. Kids don't go to bars to drink, they can't. So, it's off to a party somewhere at a house or apartment where they can drink and not have to worry about being carded or anything else. Thus the habit of going out to bars slowly died out.
ShadowFrog
Moderators
…and Steak & Egg
ShadowFrog
Moderators
Stealth Dorms
An-Cap Frog
Member
geezer
Colonel, USAF (Retired)
They have a much wider variety of alternatives to choose from these days.
froginaustin
Active Member
Commercial leases, particularly for retail or storefront, are often written that way. And those sorts of leases, at least in the 19th and 20th centuries, were frequently decades long. FWIW.
