Dad said he was just going out for cigarettes!!

Trying to work around the 190/290 construction huh?

Must’ve made a wrong turn somewhere

I’ve been there 3 times. 2 times they were out of brisket. Idk how that’s possible for a smokehouse. The 3rd time the pulled pork was ice cold. Not surprised about this in the slightest

Building and business have both been for sale for the better part of a year anyway. If the business is closing and not being taken over by new owners, they probably found a buyer for just the building.

Editing just to add: most likely buyer is the table talk pies development that is happening right next door to smokestack. I would expect this building to get knocked down and absorbed into that project

Any insights on why they decided to close?

Went down for me this evening and they identified it was outside the house and scheduled an appointment for next Tuesday to deal with it 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

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This wasn't the consensus before they closed but certainly is now after the fact.

Smokestack just announced they're closing, too. Gotta assume the commenters are about to piss on their grave too instead of interrogating why that one street is seeing so much turnover suddenly.

I mean a shit ton of businesses did have to close their doors permanently over the past 2 years

no

> "Adding a new tax to the eighth-highest commercial tax rate is really not an indicator to our businesses and business owners that we are a business-friendly community,"

Shut the hell up, stop trying to stock pile your damn money

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Only one mention of choose and mix?

Place rules, even with such a small menu and they’re amazing nice.

The bulgogi rules.

Sapporo in west borough is trash

Do you think you're talking about my kids? You are super weird in your assumptions.

Hate to break it to you, but there are none. And will never be any. So you can rest easy.

It’s a figure of speech. They don’t F around when you “block the box” or care if your car gets wrecked parked too close to the intersection. I’ve seen a garbage truck run over the front of a parked car in Albany and the cop told the trucker to “keep going, that’s why he’s not supposed to park there”.

Means it could be a good thing or a bad thing

Right, that's why you seriously thought she was gonna lose lmfao. You had to be getting that idea from somewhere

You know absolutely nothing about me. And I don’t think of you at all.

Wow you think it's about rubbing it in?

Nah dude it's to really emphasize the fact that you live in a hyper conservative bubble and that your perception is heavily biased by it.

There are probably some people out there with ideas, but there are a couple of issues—one is that the money won’t be collected for a while. We’re going to have to wait until at least late 2024 before we start to see projects discussed. The surcharge won’t be collected until July 2023 and the state trust fund match won’t happen until Nov 2024 (after the first year of surcharges are collected).

The second issue is that projects need to go before the 5-9 member local CPA commission, and then they recommend projects to the City Council which will approve or disapprove them.

As an example, Shrewsbury adopted the CPA in 2020 and only just in August began accepting applications for CPA projects

Wow, you’ve been waiting to rub this in. What a sad life.

I’m deeply hurt by that 😀

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I’m deeply hurt by that 😊