Comments on: Dearborn Businesses Come and Go; Others on Hold

By: fred

fred — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:39:24 +0000

east dearborn is alive and thriving with businesses, pedestrian culture, and a healthy community+market relationship. celebrate this.

By: JD

JD — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:54:16 +0000

How about a more realistic realtor’s perspective on what is driving Mr. Hakim to try and evict the ONLY business client he has in that project. It all has to do with the contract he signed years ago with Mr. Jerry. Just like Panera Bread, Mr. Jerry has months if not years of free rent coming to him because the building wasn’t completed on time. that’s why people sign contracts. so if you are Mr. Hakim having an empty building is better than having a client there paying you nothing.

By: emanon

emanon — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:17:24 +0000

…and a rim shot for Becki! Good one.

By: becki kain

becki kain — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:28:34 +0000

I thought Newman was the hold up for Calienti, for him suing them because the building would look too nice in comparison to his run down building on the other side?

By: Donna Hay

Donna Hay — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:44:49 +0000

You are so right Dave that’s about all we hear – this is going to take just a little longer than we anticipated. Think we can forget about Fatburger going in and also C. Grille. You just can’t work on those 2 places forever – well, maybe you can. We wondered how long AHF would last when it first went in, very poor location for that type of business.

By: LifelongDbnRes

LifelongDbnRes — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:11:48 +0000

I’m glad that Judge Somers gets to work that one out and not me—sounds like it’s going to be complicated. As a younger citizen whose friends frequent the Mich. Ave bar scene even though I don’t, I’m actually anticipating the Well. It looks like something more my style. We shall see….

By: Dave Bowman

Dave Bowman — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:08:03 +0000

Couple of comments:

1) I’ve been asking how AHF has been able to keep its doors open for some time now. Nice product line but wrong location for a business of this type…

2) “…But the paper approval process has taken a bit longer than anticipated.” This is a common thread to every business storyline in Dearborn.

By: dearborn's interests

dearborn's interests — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:16:18 +0000

hey everyone,

obviously there is a reason as to why hakim would want to evict someone. commercial landlords are in the business of keeping tenants not evicting them. a tenant has to default over and over to get evicted.

we might all remember that caliente’s construction was at a stand-still for some time, and that had nothing to do with hakim fakhoury, and everything to do with jeremy sutton dragging his feet. eventually, a landlord has enough of that.

believe it or not, it is actually more costly to have a tenant that is not paying rent than an empty space.

in any case, i imagine there might be discussion following said’s posting, and i just wanted to lay out some ideas.

thanks!

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:01:06 +0000

While I am not a fan of another bar opening in West Dearborn, I suppose something is better than nothing. I wish Mr. Varacalli well in his endeavors. Does anyone know what is going on with the Fat Burger? Does anyone truly know what is going on with the Newman buildings? Dearborn waits and wonders.