Bellos gets completely full 5-7pm, when Ive been. I havent been later than 9 since before covid so Im not sure when they actually close. Google says 12 but thats not reliable. They havent opened their upstairs in years though.

I think the only successful bar downtown in McGoverns which does stay open until 1 and does have people until closing. Good variety in the crowd as well.

I wouldn’t say squandered being as our city’s upward trajectory is so recent. However it is being tremendously undervalued and this probably won’t change until gentrification hits harder and tbh these many Black & Brown businesses turn White.

I personally like Ras, but Jesus Christ is his administration borderline incompetent.

They'll do the opposite of what he says and proclaim it's what he wants, and then he'll have to call a meeting and force everyone involved to work things out like it's a gotdamn high school intervention.

I want rapid development the same way Jersey City has seen a crazy amount of development in the past few decades.

Yeah right now the Halsey Street businesses are trying to get support from Newark Alliance, but it's a slow process considering how little time these guys have outside of their business + with them not being prioritized by the decision makers for whatever reason.

> I would love a spot like this on Halsey, however, Halsey struggles with foot traffic and many of it's small businesses are upset that the city isn't doing more to highlight them.

It still blows my mind that during Covid, the city did not do outdoor dining on Halsey. So much incompetence.

Bello’s is later, right? Hopefully proximity to the train draws a crowd.

>which hopefully is 2am each night.

For reference, the hotel bar closes at 8pm and American Whiskey closes at 8pm. I think Redds is at 11 these days but they close early if no one is there.

They’re probably waiting for Serafina to open with its liquor license. I imagine they’ll want to keep the skyway open as late as that place stays open which hopefully is 2am each night.

Oh yeah I’m not even talking about that, just commenting on how the state and city do a poor job of promoting, cultivating, etc themselves. This city is certainly up for sale to out of town developers

The owner of Gateway Center, Onyx Equities, got Tax Breaks from the state and City.

Few states and cities are worse at promoting their own brand than NJ and Newark.

Yeah but what if a homeless person walks in and is allowed to freely move around and about /s

Pardon the typos!

Kk! That’s alright!

No not really all I have is this post and chat, don’t really know how to do the discord server stuff

Awesome! I’ll have the shuttle drop me off in front of RBS - did you set up a discord server to discuss in depth? And to consolidate our ideas/thoughts?

If you can get them to pivot that way it would be wondrous. Then they can go back to the HPC and point to the Walker House, RBG Hall, and Eleven80 as complementary. The two tower examples in this article may be helpful: https://www.dezeen.com/2019/06/07/art-deco-architecture-design-projects/

If my calendar doesn't fill up I'll join y'all. Just publicize the time here.

Nah it was my idea to meet with them, I wanted to with the design and convince them to make the tower art deco with the same body design. I figure with our minds and their architects we can create something for Newark from the people who live eat and sleep in Newark. Who knows we might be able to live in the tower for free 🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️

Damn is this an open invitation to the subreddit to collab with the Arc developers? What clout we have.

I'm just imagining them citing this outreach to the HPC: "Meeting with X number of members of r/Newark."

Bet the location is 520 broad street on the 15th floor I believe

That works for me! I’ll be in the office on Tuesday

I bought donuts for a class yesterday and wanna switch it up. Would you believe a dozen and like 8 donuts is $30 🥴 I’ll drop 50 for the cookies since this class deserves it and they’re the only ones that I haven’t rewarded for their behavior / work yet haha

I was thinking we can go Tuesday at 12pm Does that sound good

Yes! I’m down to collab! I love newark - I went to school and now work in brick city

That would be plenty and cost like $45

Donuts are cheaper but your kids will probably want more than one!