Yep, Rountree was packed. We went there too.

Maybe true, but that happened after they were caught using another business' license illegally.

I really enjoy them. I hear Queen City Soul Kitchen is really good too, but I forget about them when deciding where to go.

I will do so. Forgot about them when I went out to Mimi's yesterday.

Really sucks the owner turned out to be nothing more than a fraudster. They were delicious.

Oh well, at least Mimi's Soulfood is holding down the fried chicken game.

That's fucking lame.

That's all of the food and beer festivals we have in this town. Pay too much to get in, pay too much for tickets to get food and beer, and spend the whole day standing in lines.

Go ahead and get registered anyway, that way it's done for the next thing. Also there are local and state elections that pop up every now and then, plus primaries. Like the other commenter said, you can register online.

I'm glad it's happening on C Street. That wasn't really affordable housing up there anyway, unless you're talking about them ripping into the neighborhoods around C Street.

This town is so weird. "There's nothing to do/that part is run down, but God forbid anybody put money into developing the town."

All of those issues stem from people who live on the south side going "just ignore the north side."

Are there problems up here? Yes. Are they nearly as bad as what the south siders make it out? Not even close. Will they get any better as long as yall have the "just ignore it" attitude? Fuck no.

Well there you go. This is what the "vote no" crowd should be pushing.

I've been here since 2007. It's largely pearl clutching. Creepy dudes being creeps exist all over town.

Yea, the subdivision thing was more about continuing to push single family developments towards Rogersville, Ozark, and Nixa because people constantly make interior development such a headache. Even the Grant Avenue parkway caused a ruckus, so I'm not singling out Galloway on that particular issue.

Your second sentence is why something like this, with a developer that is adding back green space into their plan and making it mixed use, feels like something to encourage.

Tight, compact development is actually better in the long run for the environment than infinite subdivisions.

The city has already sprawled around it. It's not near the core, but it also isn't out on the edge either.

No, it sounds like the "no more corporate housing" is a convienent excuse for you to hide behind.

Who is going to develop affordable housing complexes? Continue dodging the question if you want.

Edit: blocked? Lol.

As much as it could have without having the money to do so. Didn't you see the Facebook groups?

Tongue in cheek aside, yes, there were people upset by the development downtown. Turning affordable housing into expensive apartment complexes. My point is, people only really care about that stuff when it's threatening their own back yard. Which is why wealthy neighborhoods stay wealthy, single family, and car-centric, and low income neighborhoods become expensive corporate housing hellholes.

I'm not talking about this development with that question. I'm asking who you think is going to develop affordable housing in Springfield, in general? Do you think affordable housing will be funded primarily by private individuals? Or do you think apartment complexes, hopefully with some form of rent control, will be developed by corporate interests?

And the argument that the main problem with this proposal is the corporate nature of it rings hollow when corporate development is perfectly fine in the low income areas.

It's not populated with poor people, that's for sure.

I don't even have skin in the game. I couldn't care less what happens down there. The hypocrisy is real, is all.

If that's a bad argument, so is the "yes on 3."

Mixed. Black and dark red kidney are usually what I use.

So it's fine for affordable housing to be demolished in favor of expensive downtown apartments for students, because the neighborhood didn't have enough money to fight it, but it's not ok for mixed use development to occur in a place that wouldn't be expanding urban sprawl because the rich people who live there don't want it close to them?

Who do you think will develop the affordable housing we need so much? It's not going to be private individuals funding apartment complex builds, its going to be a corporation or two.

As I said in another comment, these exact same arguments were trotted out in relation to the bike trails and other proposals. Yall don't want your property values to be impacted by an apartment complex. Fair argument. Being upset specifically by the "corporate" part of the development smacks of "it was fine until it impacted me."

You all are just as opposed to the corporate housing development occurring around Missouri State, then? Where was the campaign to stop Grad School being demolished in favor of corporate apartments?