I’m going to disagree with “cosmopolitan.” Ames is starting to feel like a suburb. Even the locally-owned restaurants feel like chains!
In Memoriam: Ames Business/Restaurants
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I’m going to disagree with “cosmopolitan.” Ames is starting to feel like a suburb. Even the locally-owned restaurants feel like chains!
Ames is still set in its ways. Its the battle between being progressive and older people ******** about change and god forbide property taxes go up 46 dollars a year for improvements. This town is bipolar.
I think some of the problem is every time any kind of development is proposed people freak out that Ames is going to magically turn into Ankeny overnight.
Oralabor and Deleware are a nightmare but Ames does dumb **** like allow Chick Fil A to have a driveway off Duff 10' from the stoplight.
(Yes I know it's a highway)
This is my new favorite, along with the complete refusal to try to implement access roads along Duff. HOWEVER… it wasn’t all that long ago that Duff was home to a junkyard. Ames is never going to be Ankeny, but should shoot for a smaller approximation Boulder/Iowa City. This Mayor/Council seem to get it.
Whatcha Smokin in Luther is where it's at!
New speakeasy-style bourbon bar with live entertainment recently opened in downtown.
Noir
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Easy peasy park in the Kmart lot
and take Cy ride to the new fancy convention center. Even the towing companies will like this idea
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That phrase about older people always pauses me. How many people truly aren’t on fixed incomes. If you are 30 and paid a salary, you are fixed income. The only nonfixed income people are commission people and self employed sole proprietors.
I take it as I working age people can always work to make more $$.. People on fixed incomes are usually done working and do not get raises (pensions, SS, etc) or seek supplemental income
Lots of those people that "freak out" are, guess what? ISU faculty and staff that populate various decision-making boards in Ames...who want to keep Ames nice and quiet.
What was that little bread place on south duff? Talking about it watching NBA playoffs and it’s bugging me!
The bread store.
That’s what we called it. Think it’s Overflow Thrift Store now.
The bread store.
Not good enough! I need to know!
Old Home Bakery Outlet? The one that someone crashed into the building and then it never re-opened after fixing the building.
The bread store.
The overflow thirft store was Tobbacco outlet for years, then it moved 10 feet to the new place.
30 yrs ago Ankeny and Waukee were 2A (1A?) schools...now they have 2 4A high schools and Ames had to drop down a level because they can no longer compete in high school sports.
And all the higher priced homes are in the Gilbert school district.
The anti-growth crowd won.
Iowa State just ended up with a bunch crappy apartment buildings all over town since ISU needs the tuition $$$$ to survive.
And all the higher priced homes are in the Gilbert school district.
The anti-growth crowd won.
Iowa State just ended up with a bunch crappy apartment buildings all over town since ISU needs the tuition $$$$ to survive.
You are not wrong on the Anti growth crowd in Ames, but I would bet Ankeny and Waukee would have surpassed Ames anyway.
That's the original one. There's been a second Overflow down south for maybe a year?
