Posted on 01/10/2018 6:58:03 PM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
Eat to Live, the food cooperative on the city's South Side, has closed again.
It's the second time in about four years the member grocery store - which was built with more than $1 million dollars in donations from Syracuse University and other area foundations - has shut its doors.
The Dec. 31 closure comes after New York state also invested more than $400,000 into the project, money meant to jumpstart the store's operations and create enough work for four full-time employees....
troubles plagued the market from the beginning. Within a couple of weeks of opening, the general manager at the time was fired. Within two months of that 2013 opening, the store closed. By February 2014, a former board member said the place was running out of money....
The co-op stayed closed until April 2016, when it got an injection of help...the state sent the $400,000 it promised in taxpayer money for the project....
Now, with the store closed, it's possible the state will ask for that money back.
(Excerpt) Read more at syracuse.com ...
You posted the other story like this a couple of weeks ago - the completed factory sitting idle - built with taxpayer money for a CA firm with no contract, right? Unbelievable!!
I would love to see stories like these running side by side with the NY State TV commercials touting solid business climate in the state.. I feel sorry for you folks with Cuomo there but I can’t see him running for president - unless of course, the NYC voters who put the scum into office step up again. He has too much baggage but like Brown in CA, what difference does it make?
“...teach a man to fish, and he’ll steal your equipment and sell it....”
That actually happened to me. A “friend” said he wanted to teach his boy to fish, and could he borrow a few of my lures? I said, sure. No problem.
A week later, he returns my tackle box and nearly all the lures were gone.
He explained that he was thirsty and bought a couple of cases of beer, paid by him through trading my gear for the beer.
“Teach a man to fish and he’ll steal your gear” is prophetic. That phrase needs to be in the Fisherman’s Bible somewhere, probably on page one.
You would have to have lived there to recognize a name Howie Hawkins that was mentioned in the story.
Hawkins is on the board of directors, and he is like the Lyndon LaRouche of Syracuse city politics. He runs for mayor as the Green party candidate, he never wins, he’s as dumb as a bag of dog crap, and everything he gets involved in turns to crap.
Yet, his repeated failures do not discredit him, they only embolden him.
*smiles*...write and tell em
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