Well the mystery has revealed itself as a reader sent us the picture on the right. The Bedding Experts are in the hood and whomever posted about the mattress shop wins a Sloopin speculation award.
While most of us will lament about a boring mattress shop, not all is lost. At least we can post this old commercial and remind everyone of what a catchy ad jingle sounds like:
(Hat tip: AV & Bekki!)
How ghetto. They cant even take the Cleaners sign down...
ReplyDeleteThey'll probably take down the sign once a new sign is manufactured (cheaper to pay a crew to take down and replace at the same time than to take down now and replace later).
ReplyDeleteI agree that a bedding store is a little boring and a waste of what will soon be prime real estate, but I guess retail is retail. A lot of the northern neighborhoods have some wtfy storefronts in juicy locations.
I'm glad it's not a chick-fil-a! Any EL stop with a fast food place by it (eg Chicago Red stop and the McDonalds....) is NOT an area I'd like to hang out around. If they open a McD's or chick-fil-a, I'm moving! (Einsteins and chipotle however will be much appreciated!!)
ReplyDeleteBut regardless...guess that's neithor here no there, considering we got an exciting mattress store instead...
Very disappointing. Was hoping for something more exciting and something that someone in the neighborhood could go to regularly. I wonder what market research they did to determine that this area needed a bed store?
ReplyDeleteWell that sucks.
ReplyDeleteI agree, Roosevelt Station is bad enough we don't need a tacky fast food joint!
ReplyDeleteRent is not cheap there I wonder what profit margin mattress place has to afford rent. That being said I've never seen mattress store go out of business.
ReplyDeleteIs there a mattress store called Back to Bed on Roosevelt between Clinton and Canal? One thing for sure, you don't have to worry about a lot of people hanging around and out by a mattress store.
ReplyDeleteFast food at the Roosevelt stop would be the last straw for us. We would put our condo on the market (take a huge loss) and head back to Andersonville. I'd trade the longer commute (which was what attracted us, and most of our neighbors, to the sloop in the first place) for a safe, vibrant community.
ReplyDeleteMove back. Nobody cares. Dumb post. Maybe buy a bullet proof vest and a ton of mace. The city is so scary. We are all impressed you have been so brave to live in our horrible neighborhood so long.
ReplyDeleteA fast food place would cause people to leave the area. That's so funny. I would love to meet the people that say these types of things in real life.
ReplyDeleteWhile I agree that "moving out of the neighborhood" is a pretty drastic response to a fast-food spot opening next to the eL, I do concur that combining the crowds that loiter around fast food joints in the city with the cast of characters around the Jewel, the Walgreens, and the eL/bus terminals at Roosevelt and Wabash would make that corner even less desirable than it is now.
ReplyDeleteShhh! Don't tell "Anonymous - 9:44PM" that a fast food joint IS going up across the street next to the train stop! We wouldn't want this anonymous neighbor to abandon our area, given such a compelling reason to leave, and risk his/her loss of possibly thousands of property value dollars! Oh noes. *snore*
ReplyDeleteAs for mattress places, Roosevelt Rd. now has too many of them.
*9:44 AM
ReplyDeleteChik Fil A would've been awesome. Saying you'd much rather have a Chipotle or Einstein Bagels instead of a fast food place confuses me...Einstein and Chipotle...last time I checked were not fine dining establishments. Also...a fast food place there is not going to ruin that particular area...all the bums that hang out between Starbucks and the soon to be mattress store are much worse as well as the bums near Jewel. Don't forget the couple that got beat up a few years back next to Jewel for denying some homeless people of a cigarette.
ReplyDeleteA casket showroom would have more charm than this mattress store.
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