Kingland purchases several campustown buildings

[pyrocyz]

Also, has no one thought about the fact that they could just renovate the top floors of those buildings and have their offices up there...leaving your precious dive bars in tact?

Just a thought.

[ksclone2]

Also, has no one thought about the fact that they could just renovate the top floors of those buildings and have their offices up there...leaving your precious dive bars in tact?

Just a thought.

How dare you use so much logic in a situation like this! **** college bars are at stake!

[longtimeclone]

This is just bad news all around. Hopefully Kingland will keep doing the leasing with at least Jeffs and Yokes..

To the poster that says this doesn't include jeffs, it does, cause it covers the 100 block of stanton and 2400 block of lincoln way..

Pathetic that Kingland would try and force out college staples in a campustown area to increase space for a corporation. Its a campustown for ****s sake.

No the sale didn't include the building Jeffs was in. Jeff's is part of 103 Stanton and the sale was for 107 and 111 which are the empty lot behind Jeffs and the parking lot right before Legacy.
Beacon - Story County, IA / City of Ames

None of the websites have 103 stanton included on the sale and all the properties mentioned in the sale have already had the deed holder changed to Kingland on the assessor's website.

[ribsnwhiskey]

Yeah, it would be Peoples. Always considered one of the top college bars in the nation until it's lease was stolen away by the children of the deceased owner of the building. I remember walking in there when it was Headliners, after the remodeling - it lost it's charm.

Yeah, keep perpetuating this b.s. How do the owners of a property steal a lease away from someone who is $20,000 behind in rent and property taxes? And guess what? Peoples in DSM is closed now too. Did the owners of that building steal the lease too?

[canker2323]

I didn't attend Iowa State so I don't have any cherished memories of this area. I did grow up in Ames though.

Not seeing what the big deal is here. A bunch of fairly bland 1 & 2 story buildings are bought by a software business. Most restaurants and bars go out of business or change ownership frequently. There isn't exactly a ton of space to put anything new here anyways.

This is great news for students looking to gain some valuable work experience while going to school. You should be excited that a business wants to expand and is committed to the school and the area.

[Angie]

But replacing bars and restaurants with a software company that a majority of the student population won't give a **** about is a good alternative?

I understand what you're saying - but yes, for the town, bringing in more business and jobs is a good alternative to most of these businesses that don't bring in a ton of either of those. I don't personally know why any business would open/expand in Campustown, it's a nightmare to park or get anywhere there, but for the town overall this is a good thing.

[CLONECONES]

Would be mad if I was a freshman... but as an Alum this is big time. The campustown area isn't what I'd call "premier" office space but great that a company wants to commit to the long term

you can get drunk less than 500 feet away from any of these places, anyway

[BringBackJohnny]

This is probably the best thing to happen to campustown in thelast 15 years. You have a business that has employeed over 1,000 students in 8 years growing. Giveing more students money to spend in campustown. More money in the area with a responsible cleanly owner making improvements to awful buildings will bring in outside businesses who would once not touch the place. You if you think campustown has charm I would hate to see what your gf looks like if you know what i mean.

[pyrocyz]

I understand what you're saying - but yes, for the town, bringing in more business and jobs is a good alternative to most of these businesses that don't bring in a ton of either of those. I don't personally know why any business would open/expand in Campustown, it's a nightmare to park or get anywhere there, but for the town overall this is a good thing.

If you are employing a bunch of people who live in the direct area or just across the street you don't have to worry about parking at all.

[00clone]

This is probably the best thing to happen to campustown in thelast 15 years. You have a business that has employeed over 1,000 students in 8 years growing. Giveing more students money to spend in campustown. More money in the area with a responsible cleanly owner making improvements to awful buildings will bring in outside businesses who would once not touch the place. You if you think campustown has charm I would hate to see what your gf looks like if you know what i mean.

Hearing the complaining about bars closing is like listening to gran-pappy talking about when they had outhouses. People always get nostalgic about their favorite ****hole.

[CYphyllis]

Yeah, keep perpetuating this b.s. How do the owners of a property steal a lease away from someone who is $20,000 behind in rent and property taxes? And guess what? Peoples in DSM is closed now too. Did the owners of that building steal the lease too?

You'd think with the ability they had to run Papa's Corner into the ground nearly instantly, it might have been more financially responsible to stay the hell away and let the people that actually knew how to run a Campus Town bar get their financials straight.

Instead, they removed a Campus Town institution and in the most obvious of outcomes it ticked off what would have been their customer base. Usually in business, if you manage to **** off your customers six months before you even open, it's not a good thing.

Also, the idea that adding businesses to that area of Ames is a good idea, I've got to disagree. College drunks are a destructive being, I spent 4.5 glorious years as one. From a city planning angle, it's best to keep them in one isolated section instead of moving in on their habitat and pushing them into more civilized areas of town.

[Farnsworth]

Hearing the complaining about bars closing is like listening to gran-pappy talking about when they had outhouses. People always get nostalgic about their favorite ****hole.

Hey lumpys was not a ****h... oh wait, it literally was. a good ****hole though.

[RayShimley]

Hey lumpys was not a ****h... oh wait, it literally was. a good ****hole though.

Yes, I was much more sad to see Lumpy's go than People's. Line to the bathroom too long? No problem just go out the back and pee on the stairs. Stairs occupied? No big deal, just go into the back room and discretely pee in a corner. Corners full? Just have your buddies form a wall while you pee on the Joust arcade machine.

Also, on Friday nights you had to play the game where you tried to stack your 25 cent draws to the ceiling before one of the bouncers came and took them away. It was damn near impossible!

[MissouriCyclone]

Yes, I was much more sad to see Lumpy's go than People's. Line to the bathroom too long? No problem just go out the back and pee on the stairs. Stairs occupied? No big deal, just go into the back room and discretely pee in a corner. Corners full? Just have your buddies form a wall while you pee on the Joust arcade machine.

Also, on Friday nights you had to play the game where you tried to stack your 25 cent draws to the ceiling before one of the bouncers came and took them away. It was damn near impossible!

25 cent draws???? My God!

[ribsnwhiskey]

You'd think with the ability they had to run Papa's Corner into the ground nearly instantly, it might have been more financially responsible to stay the hell away and let the people that actually knew how to run a Campus Town bar get their financials straight.

Instead, they removed a Campus Town institution and in the most obvious of outcomes it ticked off what would have been their customer base. Usually in business, if you manage to **** off your customers six months before you even open, it's not a good thing.

Also, the idea that adding businesses to that area of Ames is a good idea, I've got to disagree. College drunks are a destructive being, I spent 4.5 glorious years as one. From a city planning angle, it's best to keep them in one isolated section instead of moving in on their habitat and pushing them into more civilized areas of town.

You are pretty clueless about the entire situation.