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Community gives perspectives on 'vanishing' Fry Street
Arash Sahba
Issue date: 4/3/09 Section: MULTIMEDIA
Arson, corporate ownership and city regulations contribute to what former Voyager's Dream owner Mike Sutton calls "the vanishing of Fry Street." Sutton said the grassy, fenced-off area bears little resemblance to the variety of businesses that inhabited the space two years ago. But many new students have no memory of the old Fry Street and some wish the vacant lot could be replaced with something useful, like a grocery store. "This is my community," said Tommy Simmons, a communications design senior. "And I would like something that would make my life easier."
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Chuck Norton
posted 4/03/09 @ 9:40 PM CST
Fry Street as it exists now is a monument to corporate greed and incompetence and predatory capitalism. Houston "developers" thought they could make big bucks by buying and bulldozing Fry Street and then building a corporate-friendly "Fry Street Village. (Continued…)
Derrick
posted 4/03/09 @ 11:01 PM CST
No, thank you. As a Denton resident, I don't want my tax dollars going to a park that students would just trash.
A unique place was not "leveled" by a corporation. (Continued…)
hotcarl
posted 4/04/09 @ 12:33 AM CST
Derrick are you aware that the Tomato was scheduled to be bulldozed not long after the it was molotov'd? Are you aware that there were numerous buildings on the fry-hickory street lot that were bulldozed? Who gave the bulldozer soldiers the go ahead? Not some "socialist asshole". (Continued…)
Chas
posted 4/04/09 @ 8:50 AM CST
Fry Street was something where the old owners didn't capitalize on the uniqueness, the new owner doesn't understand the area, and Denton turned their back on. (Continued…)
?
posted 4/04/09 @ 4:47 PM CST
Derrick, you are way off. Hotcarl already told you the truth. But if this is the rumor that's going around about Fry Street it sounds like there needs to be a reeducation lesson. (Continued…)
Ryan
posted 4/05/09 @ 1:42 AM CST
What "actually happened" is that a socialist loser didn't like the idea of something being built where the Tomato was, so he set it on fire and endangered the lives of students and firefighters. (Continued…)
Suz
posted 4/05/09 @ 2:51 PM CST
Fry Street, and Hickory Street, for that matter, have been 'dumps' for many decades. Whatever the City decides to do with the area, if it does, will be done with MY tax money. (Continued…)
Kev
posted 4/05/09 @ 10:30 PM CST
I've said this before, but it bears repeating: United Equities could have done this project properly if they weren't all about greed. The way to do it? Put the CVS drugstore on the exact opposite corner, at Welch and Oak (site of a former Eckerd Drugs), where they could probably even have their drive-thru window, since that corner is not so pedestrian-intensive. (Continued…)
Joseph
posted 4/06/09 @ 10:51 AM CST
The beauty of these articles appearing once per semester is it is like watching a slow motion train wreck repeated over and over and over and over. People who are ill-informed and misguided offering ideas that have zero basis in reality and cursing at each other because anyone who wants to put anything besides a pizza joint and another head shop on Fry Street is a "conservative monoculture squares" or a "capitalist blowhard". (Continued…)
Cherry
posted 4/06/09 @ 8:26 PM CST
The fact that anyone will lay more blame to the citizens of denton over United Equities shows how ignorant they are of the situation. Please who owns the property? The citizens of Denton or U. (Continued…)
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