Says who? That's really sad if it is true... I've been going there for at least 6 years. I remember playing board games with college friends back in the undergrad years... Booo.
I'm guessing the rent they are trying to get out of these places are to high. They closed Rinaldes on 3rd (I know - spelling) and that place has been vacant for months. Seems they would have done better just to lower the rent. It seems getting 70-80% would be better than getting 0%. I wonder if the owners saw the light rail station and bumped the rent. Either way 3rd is now dead. Two good business gone. Rinaldies (great sandwiches) and Mills End (great place to hang out/ live events). Note to property owners - Mill is not Scottsdale. Empty commercial real estate = not good.
I'm guessing that you need Starbucks kind of traffic to make the rental payments. Dunkin probably didn't help as well. I still think these business are not realizing this is a college town and over charging for most stuff.
On a different note the 5 guys burger place is awesome. A1 sauce on my burger - fantastic. The burgers taste like what you would make yourself with your own bbq. Fries are good to - especially the cajun. I'm a big fan of In/Out but I like this place better. In/Out fries suck.
Just got back from 5 Guys. The fries are light years ahead of In-n-Out, but it's a toss up for me which ones burgers I like better. They're each good in their own way.
My imagination or didn't Rally's used to have Curly Fries? I remember them being amazing but the Rally's on 24th doesn't carry them. Did they stop doing them or am I mis-remembering?
While we're on the topic of fast food, has anyone been to a Culver's before? One just opened on Camelback, so I checked out their menu online and it looks pretty good.
The one in Surprise is the shittiest thing I've ever eaten. I've never been so sick as I was after eating a quarter of a burger from them. The amount of grease was too much for me to handle. Their cheese curds are okay but everything else they make sucks.
Although, I hear the one in Surprise is the worst of the worst.
The one in Surprise is the shittiest thing I've ever eaten. I've never been so sick as I was after eating a quarter of a burger from them. The amount of grease was too much for me to handle. Their cheese curds are okay but everything else they make sucks.
Although, I hear the one in Surprise is the worst of the worst.
What a disappointment...I'll probably try it out anyways.
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While we're on the topic of fast food, has anyone been to a Culver's before? One just opened on Camelback, so I checked out their menu online and it looks pretty good.
I haven't been to any here in AZ but they had them in MO and Id eat their often enough in college, its pretty tasty.
I took this just a couple weeks ago. Not really development related, but I thought I'd share this awesome sunset pic though. I posted a few more pics here.
ASU moves ahead with priciest building ever
Arizona State University is moving forward to build the most expensive single building in the institution’s history despite the sluggish economy and uncertainty over the state budget.
The $185 million science-and-technology building is planned on the site of a parking lot south of the Biodesign Institute on the Tempe campus.
Rich Stanley, university planner, said officials are finalizing a contract and price with the builder. But he acknowledged they are keeping a close watch on state finances and the university’s overall funding situation before they decide to break ground.
“We have every intention of moving forward,” he said.
All three state universities have seen steep cuts in their state funding this year, and students have seen sharp tuition increases. But university officials are looking at the building as a way to generate more revenue. The building will create more research space with the goal being to bring in additional research grants.
The university plans to finance the structure by using research grant money, a portion of which can used toward general university overhead.
Research funding “is not threatened by the recession,” Stanley said.
The seven-story, building will house earth and space sciences, climate science and renewable and alternative-energy research. The facility, called Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building IV, fits into ASU President Michael Crow’s vision of ramping up research in energy, engineering and sciences.
Stanley said that once ground is broken, it should take about two years to complete the 293,000-square-foot building. He described the project as very complicated because of the 88,185 square feet of lab space requires more plumbing and special air-filtration systems.
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