(09-02-2020 06:54 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote: (09-02-2020 11:15 AM)thxjoenovak Wrote: (09-02-2020 09:45 AM)HUSKiESbelieve Wrote: (09-02-2020 09:08 AM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote: ....is there a dispensary in DeKalb?
It looks like they just approved a second one at the Junction Shopping Center.
https://www.daily-chronicle.com/2020/04/...t/a68riay/
Which, in theory, should be good news for The Junction and Pizza Villa.
Just sayin'...
Pizza Villa...... Fatty's
Oh how I miss thee
Two great spots. However for a university the size of NIU, the bar and “college type” restaurants scene is scarce. Basically Fattys has a monopoly at NIU. They are phenomenal, but has anyone else thought the same?
In my opinion, the thing DeKalb and NIU need desperately is an appealing bar and restaurant scene near the primary intersection and entrance to campus (Lincoln highway and Annie glidden). Instead sits an abandoned hotel, a subpar apartment building, a tire store (with an ironic name), and a CVS in which no one at city council requested CVS to build more than their plain base design (I will just say that a CVS built in Geneva or Naperville is much more aesthetically appealing).
It is unacceptable to me that the primary intersection at the university sits an abandoned hotel for what is now years. This would not fly in other towns and would immediately be knocked down (and don’t get me started about an abandoned movie theatre of over 10 years still sitting). I know the movie theatre just received approval to be razed. I’m sorry to vent but deep down we all know what I am talking about. Ultimately it is not the city that builds new bars, restaurants, shopping, and it would take a developer...but this is the 800 pound gorilla sitting in the middle of the room.
I know Pappas is taking blighted areas and putting up new higher end apartments...which is good. But the purpose of this rant is that we need something appealing at the heart intersection of town. Last comment: I wish Pappas would at least put some freaking balconies on his designs so they don’t look like white collar prisons on the outside.
I am happy to the uptick in enrollment, but wonder if this is an organic
uptick or a pandemic related uptick that will dissolve. Cheers and go NIU!