Please Tell Me They're Not Coming Down
Maybe this is just an ugly trim, right? Right? All I do know is the once beloved home of Allen’s Cafe was bought out a couple years ago by R.D. and Scott Smith, the same folks that for years owned the boarded up building that was home to one tenant, “Pat’s Lounge,” on NW 10 and other similarly maintained properties. They also tore down a grocery store with ads dating back to statehood near St. Anthony Hospital.
Allen’s closed after the sale, and the Red Brick restuarant operated there for a few months before closing. All I know now is what I see being done to what were some of the biggest oldest trees downtown other than the Survivor Tree.
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Steve, This is really sad…I hope on balance, in the grand scheme of things, that enough downtown developers and investors are more civic and community minded so that the Smith brothers arent’ the ones who get to write the story on how our downtown community will look in the future.
Sorry Steve but those trees are history – they’ve been trimmed too much to ever survive, which may have been the intent. The one on the far right looks like it was trimmed about halfway up at some point. The top half is regrowth. Why don’t you ask them whats going on?
What a bunch of losers. Like the poster above, who doesn’t realize trees like this are a valuable asset?
Do we know the reasons these trees appear to be in the process of being cut down? It seems an odd choice to be cutting down trees for no reason. Even soulless property owners want to make money and spending money to cut down trees for no purpose seems like an odd choice. Do we know if this is due to the prospect of a building being built there? Do they think this will increase the value of the property? Are the trees diseased? Perhaps they don’t like trees because they couldn’t climb them as small children? I guess I would just like more information, before condemnation…despite the owners’ past history. Although they seem to be owners worthy of skepticism based on everything written here.
One of the trees, I believe the trunk closest to the Red Brick building, looks to be completely rotted out. It wouldn’t be safe to keep the trees up if that’s the case for all of them. If that’s the case, it points to the failure of proper maintenance, not to the random deletion of mature trees. Urban forestry management is something that should be explored further in the City, in my opinion.
Steve, you’re being far too kind to the Smith brothers. I can’t think of one example of an improvement to any of the vast properties they own. They’re in it soley for investment and will expend nothing towards improving a property. The don’t care anything about the community at-large, history of a property or futhering the common good. Pure and simple, and in words well known: They’are slum lords.