Please watch this video and see if you don't think there are some parallels.
IF you've never seen the DISNEY Movie - CARS - please go watch it!
The new freeway is built and everyone things the town is going to crumble (M-6 & Wyoming). The people realize that M-6 actually makes the existing retail strip on 28th Street more accessible to all surrounding suburbs of the metropolitan area.
Even though the traffic is traffic, CARS = CUSTOMERS for the businesses and jobs for citizens. We've got such a huge thing going now with metro-cruise!
It's our "Nascar Race" for economic impact to the immediate 28th Street area.
Why not dream a little bit about how it was, about how it can be, CLASSIC CONVENIENCE from the days gone by rebirthed right here on world famous 28th Street.
Why Build New in greenfields? Take what we've got, update it with a theme and market the daylights out of it.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Beltline Drive Inn - 1950's
So who is lining up to watch the movie? The people or the Cars. Just wait until I post a picture from Disney's Pixar Movie - Cars to illustrate the similarity. There is talk between Studio 28 and the Chamber about doing a Drive-In TheaterWith all the Disney and Dream talk going, would it be conceivable to have a Cars theme go with Metro-Cruise to make it all a family / kid friendly thing to go out and watch /see the Cars at Metro-Cruise. Heck the Metro Cruise Logo almost looks like a the Cars Logo from the Movie.
Should the kids park toys and them be something to do with Cars? 28th Street is Cars! Cars! Cars!, but with the new southbeltline to the south its NOT cross town travelers, its local people and people from around the midwest - customers - 45,000 per day of them going by your front door.
Like Mr. Isreals has said, he did not buy the new site for Klingmans because it was the cheapest site for for Klingmans, but because it is the BEST site for Klingmans. It truly is the very best one site location in Metro Grand Rapids and Western Michigan.
HOW ABOUT A CARS AND "CAR"-TOONS THEME?
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Old 28th Street Drive Inn - CARS AND CAR-TOONS?
Here is a picture of the "Beltline" Drive In Theatre - meaning South Beltline - as 28th Street was referred to in those days. The new South Beltline has moved south to M-6 and a lot has changed since this shot in the 1950's.
In 2003, Studio 28 Theatre drew more customers than the Detroit Tigers and up until recently was one of the top "tourist attractions" in the State. Remember this was the "first" 20 Screen Theatre anywhere.
Along with Rogers Department Store, the Studio 28 Theatre have been landmarks in the first suburban shopping and entertainment district outside of downtown Grand Rapids. It remained as such for a generation.
We are now on the edge of a bold new rebirth where people "re-discover" 28thth Street. As far as a 1 store location for Grand Rapids or Western Michigan goes, 28th Street not only gives you the power and draw of US-131 to Metropolitan areas to the south of us, it also gives you well over 1/4 of a million people within 5 miles at above average household incomes.
The two South Beltlines, old and new both have dramatically effected the shopping patterns of southern Grand Rapids. As difficulat as it used to be to get across town on 28th Street and 44th Street, the southbelt has now made both the Kentwood/Cascade area, and the Byron Center, Hudsonville, Grandville areas quicks jumps over to US-131.
This all make the new Klingman's location accessible to shoppers from all over the metropolitan area, as well as a draw to Grand Rapids, the gateway to a Nation's Playground, God's High Five to Mankind, Pure Michigan!
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
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