Good bye Battles/Campus town liquors building
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They will probably sell it to Casey's. The way it is now is good enough for them.
Total non sequitur here but this joke has really been beaten to death here over the last couple of months.
Yeah it's pretty annoying. 3 auto part stores in a city of 60K. OMG that is so many!
Not taking the opposite side but there is NAPA, Arnold, Advance, O'Reilly, and soon to be Auto zone. So you were a little over half right.
Well on that note, a college kid typically equals crappy car not taken care of so it makes sense.
We were on Welch Ave last night (after the K-State game) and could not get over how many people asked us just outside of the Blue Owl/WAS where the Kum & Go was. It was very bizarre.
I think in the end, people will like the new setup on Welch/Lincoln Way. Campus town is within a very compressed area, so there's no way to go but up.
The Dunkin Donuts IMO is better
Ames is a much better college town now than it was 20 years ago when I was a student there. I'm interested in seeing how Welch Ave looking in 2-3 years after the construction and renovations
I once lived on the same block as a Kum & Go and a Pump & Pack...wanted to start my own convenience store called F$#@ & Save just to see if anyone would notice.
My neighborhood of about 200k people has one O'Reilly and that's it, it's not really even in my neighborhood, but an adjacent one. I was in Ames this summer and was astounded how half of the businesses on Duff are car care related. If someone can't see the humor in it they need to get out of Ames, matress stores I get because of all the moving in and out of students...auto parts & service? I'm guessing students have a lower % of car ownership than the average adult Iowan, it's odd.
You have to realize though most students don't have the means to fix their car on their own or the ability for that matter. Also generally not worth taking home so they take it somewhere.
How many people in those compressed urban neighborhoods actually own a car? A lot of recent graduates that work and live in downtown Chicago can go 2-3 years w/o owning a car. Not only do you have the cost of the vehicle but the added cost of garage space.
it's also super funny because not one auto store is near the more 'independent' apartments in west ames
at least put one service/parts store out there
thanks, city planner who is lurking this forum
