Hat tip Dirty Billy
CAMDEN, NJ—Saying they were fed up with the numerous challenges stemming from their city’s extensive urban decay, Camden, NJ residents confirmed Wednesday that they would love to just skip to the part where they get a hip, revitalized restaurant scene. “I realize that these boarded-up storefronts and abandoned factories might be turned into trendy cafés and bistros someday down the line, but I think most of us would be pretty thrilled if we just went ahead and got to that stage right now,” said resident George Pierson, noting that he is fully willing to bypass Camden’s endemic crime, rampant drug abuse, and high unemployment rate in order to jump right to the point when he and the city’s other occupants can enjoy dozens of farm-to-table gastropubs.
“Sure, we’ll eventually see lobster roll stands and high-end noodle bars popping up on every corner, but that could take years or even decades. Let’s just skim over all the gang turf disputes and burnt-out streetlights and go straight to blocks lined with stores specializing in key lime pies, locally sourced butcher shops, and gourmet empanada places. That honestly seems like the way to go.” Camden residents also told reporters they would like the city’s accelerated revitalization process to then stop just before they are priced out of their current apartments.
That’s where Billy needs to build a restaurant.
Good luck getting a toney restaurant in a New Jersey metropolis.
Skim, payoffs, taxes, and other in-your-pocket charges reduce incentive and investment.
That’s the impression I get.
The article below tells you where the $ go.
The article is from the website VDARE. Take a look at VDARE Most of you TBPers will agree with most all the site’s posts.
TRENTON NJ HAS HAITIAN LEVELS OF CORRUPTION.
By Thomas O. Meehan on May 12, 2015 (VDARE)
“As America is unwillingly transformed into a Third World society, what VDARE.com calls the Minority Occupation Government is becoming more common in cities and states throughout the country. The minority-majority city of Trenton, capital of the state of New Jersey, is a case study:
“A majority black city, Trenton features the kind of racialized one-party rule all too common in American cities, in which a series of often corrupt African-American politicians use the institutions of government like their own private piggy bank. The city is also home to a “hugging drug court judge” releasing non-white drug offenders and Trenton is a “sanctuary city” that offers ID’s to illegal aliens.
“In effect, like so many other post-American communities, the state capital is a multicultural kleptocracy, dominated by racial-grievance mongering and far-Left policies appealing to resentment against whites.
“The recent administrator of this demographic disaster was former Trenton Mayor Tony Mack. But Mack’s tenure ended in disgrace when he was arrested with his brother and an associate on corruption charges in 2012…. ”
And on it goes
Obviously the 30 Blocks culture has been morphing all over metropolitan America.
The savior is visiting his Promise Zone of Camden, where he captured 105% of the vote in 2012, on Monday. He can take full credit for the drug infested, murderous shithole.
Thomas Fitzgerald, Inquirer Politics Writer
Posted: Thursday, May 14, 2015, 11:08 AM
President Obama will travel to Camden Monday to highlight the county police department’s efforts to build trust between officers and the community, the White House said in a statement Thursday.
Camden was recently designated as a “Promise Zone,” a program that leverages federal grants to increase economic opportunity, reduce crime and improve public health. The president is expected to discuss the program.
Further details about the visit will be released soon, the statement said. Sources familiar with planning of the visit say that Obama will visit Camden County Police headquarters and will deliver a speech.
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/big_tent/Obama-to-visit-Camden-Monday.html#umlRK69v7Hl8IjZu.99
There’s just one product needed in the Camden Promise Zone ….. about 20,000 cans of this
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Nothing in modern life sickens me like the destruction of our fine old cities, possibly because I’m old enough to remember their beauty and vitality just before their destruction began. 80 years, really, of absolutely atrocious public policy with its welfare programs and deliberate creation of entire classes of parasites with no social or economic role, has given us this, and it will take a lot more than a few trendy restaurants and art galleries to re-knit the fabric of these places. A functioning city is an incredibly complex ecology in which there need to be many layers of life that each fill a function and make a contribution.
Take a look at those burned out houses in the photo. Look at the architecture, look at the fine detailing.- these were beautiful townhouses in their time and could be so now, had they not been totally wrecked. Some builders I know could salvage and restore those beautiful shells even now. What a pretty, cozy city neighborhood this street must once have been. You could not duplicate those townhouses in all their former beauty for anything like a price affordable to most home buyers now- just take a look at the newly built houses available in the $200K-300K range, with their ugly architecture that gets “traditional” all wrong, with cheap, ugly materials that will barely last 30 years, let alone the 150 these old structures would easily have lasted with a bit of care. What’s even sadder is what we have replaced neighborhoods like this since, as we fled the cities for bedroom suburbs that look like they’re built out of cardboard and matchsticks, places with no center whatsoever, that people are now fleeing for newer versions of the same, with ever-longer commutes, thinner community life, and less permanence and stability.
Obama is coming to celebrate 50 years of Democrat control of Camden. Winning!!!!
“Good luck getting a toney restaurant in a New Jersey metropolis.
Skim, payoffs, taxes, and other in-your-pocket charges reduce incentive and investment.”
That’s EVERY metropolis- Chicago, St Louis, Milwaukee, to name a few close to me. The more established suburbs, too… it often costs $30,000 or more just to get the required permits and licenses, for which you must run an unbelievable gauntlet, including neighborhood meetings where all the surrounding citizens, are invited to put in as to whether they think your business is good for their neighborhood. I love that- a bunch of cubicle critters of various grades and blue-collar workers, not to mention unemployed busybodies, who never ran a business of any sort in their lives- are empowered to decide whether or not you can invest your money in the legitimate business of your choice, and make a free-market transaction with the owner of a commercial space that has stood vacant for a decade or more to open your business there. Add all this to normal business risk, AND the higher risk of competing with connected cronies who are extensively subsidized by the city, and we can see why the only businesses to open up in many cities anymore are those that have gotten a massive subsidy.