Gaming places, gas stations and mini marts all in the heart of the village, I'm ok with it, we need businesses. The investment the Linny's owner has made and the improvements that come along with it all, great job. I won't plug a certain new shop ran by an owner with a piss poor attitude but her building does look much better. What I do have a big problem with and I want to know who is responsible for allowing it is, who in the hell approved a salvage yard, or junkie tow yard to sit right in the middle of the village? Butted up to or actually sitting on the school district's property at Grigsby school is what appears to be a field of towed vehicles, junk vehicles or a large salvage yard business. Why in the world would the council and the mayor allow such an eyesore to be placed on the most traveled street in the village? Why was this kind of business allowed to open shop so close to a school and neighborhoods in the very first place?
This business is open all hours of the night, throughout the night. The roar and the rumble of the engines on these modified trucks and cars can be felt in the pit of your guts if you're close enough when one comes flying off the lot. The burnt rubber on the street from that business heading into Granite City is a common decoration at this point. The entrance or exit of this building is a time bomb for a horrible wreck when a modified big truck with a careless driver desperate to display his masculinity comes flying off that lot and straight into the path of a car half its weight and size. Did the village council approve this big truck and salvage yard business to sit right in the heart of the village? If so, were the surrounding businesses or residents considered or notified of these plans and given a chance to voice their opinions or concerns about this being allowed? This is the biggest blunder showing the lack of good judgement I have witnessed since the Pagano administration has been in charge. The worst part of this situation is the place seems to be expanding when it should be forced out of the center of the village and onto a more suitable piece of land where the noise, and dust from spinning tires kicking up dirt and gravel have no impact on other businesses and residents in surrounding homes.
When driving around the village the last thing I want to see is a damn salvage yard right in the middle of it. I've never seen this allowed in any town I've ever visited, and I've visited a lot, unless it was a town with a population of 50 people in no-where-ville. This place needs to go!
I'm not a big fan of everything that is and isn't going on in Pontoon Beach but you laid it on pretty thick about the one business that you don't appear to be a big fan of. I drive by that location virtually every day, and while it isn't the most eye-appealing site you will ever witness, all that drama you spoke of I've never actually seen myself. Now maybe I've simply missed it the past 200 times I drove by, that certainly is a possibility.Keep those tents Soros bought you, you will need them when Mommy and Daddy kicks you out of the house.
I'm sure you wouldn't have a complaint if you're only driving by it. Try looking at it every day out your front door. Try staying asleep while some gear head is stomping the accelerator to the floor to hear his new flowmaster. The stretch of pontoon road between that business and the old shirl k building is being used as a drag strip especially on the weekends. Driving by this place can't compare to living with it and never escaping the noise of it. Summertime forget thinking about opening your windows, at times I struggle to hear the TV in my front room with the damn windows closed. What do you think has happened to the property values around this place between the noise and the view out your windows being a salvage yard? Buying a house in the middle of the village who would dream you would end up with neighbors being a field of towed vehicles sitting in a salvage yard! Do you think this shit would have been allowed or given a license to operate bordering the Timberlake subdivision? Not a damn chance. The residents of that neighborhood would have been notified and would have went marching straight into a council meeting to stop this from happening.
Is this the place with the big 4 wheeler out front? That place has always looked like crap. I remember when it was a putt putt course.
As for the clowns driving fast and making noise , call the police.
Just remember they only drive fast, loud vehicles to make up for their undersized man part. Something has to make them feel good.they did not fail, because they did what their country asked of them....
Todd, I can at least admit that the place would have never been allowed to operate within 2,000 feet of Timberlake.Keep those tents Soros bought you, you will need them when Mommy and Daddy kicks you out of the house.