Failing Businesses
The businesses are failing fast in New Encinitas. Linens & Things is closing soon. Filippi's short run ended recently. Shoe Pavilion was open for about a week. Circuit City is closing a bunch of stores. Who's next?
Update: The Patio Source is having a going out of business sale.
Sign on the front door of Filippi's.
Update: The Patio Source is having a going out of business sale.
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posted by dosten at
7:32 PM
26 Comments:
Where is the Chamber when you need them?
Oh yeah, opposing a pro commerce Whalgrens drog store, I kid you not. Opposing the streetscape project in Leucadia, because the one downtown practically ruined downtown Encinitas I guess, and having a failed Winter rose formal while Rome burns, attended by 300 errr...30 folks non in formal attire.
It was so bad the Chamber CEO did not even attend.
A formal at a golf course with heavy appitizers...
As a chamber member I am starting to wonder what the heck is going on and why are they not working to better the El Camino Real and Encinitas Blvd area?
I know there is a lot of B.S. and misinformation flying around these blogs, but there is no way that the Encinitas Chamber of Commerce OPPOSED a Walgreen’s drug store from opening in New Encinitas.
They’re a Chamber of “Commerce”!
Quit spreading the lies and the anti Chamber B.S.
The new traffic median getting installed for Walgreens will prevent shoppers coming out of the Henry's shopping center from turning west onto Encinitas Boulevard therefore the Chamber was against it.
No way,
So it's true!
The Encinitas Chamber opposed a reputable business, one of the oldest and most established companies, Walgreen’s, that was trying to locate in New Encinitas!
I am glad The council supported it! It’s America for friggen sakes!
Can you imagine the Encinitas Chamber ten years saying something like this:
“The traffic generated by the Encinitas Ranch and the fact that there is a median on Leucadia blvd that needed to be installed thus preventing a person northbound from…. therefore the Chamber opposed the Encinitas Ranch?
Or…..
“There was concern for the shopping center across the street due to the installation of a new median required by the Home Depot so therefore the Chamber opposed the Home Depot.
Who needs enviro whack jobs to oppose new sales tax generation and new business for our city that badly needs it, when you have the Encinitas Chamber to do the same job!
What the heck is that all about Chamber!
D street cafe??
Since this is the New Encinitas blog, and not one of the coastal blogs, maybe it is past time to ask what the city is doing for New Encinitas and its businesses (other than using us as a source of tax revenues to upgrade the coast)? What projects has the city done for New Encinitas (other than road paving) in the last decade?
How about a Sports Park that the citizens on the coast do not want?
why not a park on the old county land behind the sheriff's station?
3:40 -
I love that idea - give New World the sports park.
And would you also like a new Hospital? Think of it as a two-fer.
I Like this blog but was wondering if the topics could be changed alittle more often? I understand if the moderator cannot do it. Just a thought to make it a little more interesting and timely.
I Like this blog but was wondering if the topics could be changed alittle more often? I understand if the moderator cannot do it. Just a thought to make it a little more interesting and timely.
Everytime I went into Filippi's the place was packed and the to-go orders were flying out the door.
If that store couldn't support itself with the gross revenue it was generating, there must have been some other issues.
Jerome
There are many others closing and going to close.
It serves no purpose to pretend it is something else other than people are not spending.
Maybe some empathy or active plan to help.
Please don't say depend on the C of C.
Why do they deserve $90 a year.
Why should we spend millions on sports parks? Why not make more use of the sports fields of the local schools? What we need is more parks, maybe a new library, and to preserve what is left of the open space.
By parks of course, I mean grassy picnic and play areas.
As an insurance agency owner and someone who grew up working in the family retail sore I feel very keenly the stresses that accompany small business and know it's a terrible blow to owners, employees, suppliers, and customers when a business closes.
We are going through an economic cycle and some will be able to thrive, some will survive, and some, sadly, will not make it.
People vote with their wallets and while Pino's and Filippi's is gone, Borelli's and Rosana's and Tratoria Positano, among others, are still chugging along. There will likely be further contractions before we see expansion again for a variety of reason.
Jerome Stocks - a bag full of hot air
And the Chamber of Commerce spends the $90k on energies to pubically thwart city projects such as the Boathouses, Pacific Station, Walgreen’s, Parking solution downtown, Leucadia improvements and closes the visitors center on weekends and fires all it's volunteers.
What are thy doing to help commerce?
Their effort seem to thwart vs. help business.
After eating there a few times I was not impressed with their food or service. If you have good food with good service people will go to your restaurant. The economy will not hurt Encinitas residents when they want a good meal.
Lets move the sports park to the old dump off of Encinitas Blvd. Lots of space and the closest houses are up the hill. It will be easier for our kids to get to it and located closer to most of the youth in Encinitas. It will make it a little for more difficult for Carlsbad kids to get to it but I hope we aren't building a sports park for Carlsbad.
Shop local mom and pop!
http://leucadia.blogspot.com/
Is the Enc. Chamber of Commerce hindering commerce?
It is appalling that the Chamber of Commerce wants to halt the long awaited Leucadia Streetscape project to create a safe, pleasant, and prosperous business environment because of, " ...the real potential for impeding through traffic to downtown inherent in the plan..." (published comment from the Encinitas Chamber of Commerce) There is something terribly wrong with that.
The Chamber of Commerce should be supportive to business, even if they are in Leucadia.
How can the city support a Chamber, with our taxes, that takes the attitude that the Leucadia 101 strip does not deserve the improvements, so long promised, that the rest of the city has received.?
I don't intend to defend the Encinitas Chamber of Commerce. I find both Mike Andreen and Gary Tucker people of questionable character. Their own selfish interests always come before the interests of the citizens of Encinitas.
However, in the case of Walgreens at Encinitas Blvd. and El Camino Real, the Chamber actually had a good argument against the the drugstore as proposed. This had to do with giving access to the new Walgreens by talking it away from Henry's and adjacent stores. It is foolish to punish long established businesses that have contributed sales tax revenue for many years.
What I would like to know, Is how come the city council and the cc do not just spend some money cleaning up encinitas. I am not against having illegals in our city. What really irritates the hell out of me is the fact that they use any open land as their toilet whenever the need arises, and no one has ever done anything about it. You as a resident, hop a fence by the home depot or behind the malls and you will surely face a gendarme from our very efficient sheriffs department. Try it in Carlsbad and they might send you off to the pokey no questions asked..
Like it or not, All of this fecal matter eventually ends up at our beaches and we all get to swim or surf in it. if you cannot see it....its easier to ignore. On the other hand if a lifeguard spots a dogs turd floating near the beach, they will immediately close a mile and a half of beach on either side of the offending item.
Put some toilets for these poor sods at the hoe depot, and along encniitas blvd where they congregate.and lets clean up our town.
The HomeDepot Expo across from Island's and REI is going out of business too.
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