http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/ Discussion Forum for Riverside Illinois en Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:36:34 +0000 http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic/chamber-golf-outing-moved-to-new-date#post-14830 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:26:17 +0000 scott 14830@http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/ <p>The Chamber of Commerce Golf Outing and Dinner Celebration has been moved to Monday, September 19th.</p> <p>Tickets remain on sale at the Chew Chew. </p> <p>If you purchased tickets and have a conflict with the new date, please stop in the Chew Chew and see Scott. A full refund will be available. </p> http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic/riverside-chamber-golf-outing#post-14803 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:06:03 +0000 scott 14803@http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/ <p>Join the Riverside Chamber of Commerce at Riverside Golf Club on Monday, July 25th for a day of golf and celebration. Golf includes lunch, range, 18 holes, cart, dinner and live music featuring "R-Gang". There will be great prizes awarded as well as a chance to win a 2012 Hyundai Sonata with a Hole-in-One sponsored by McGrath City Hyundai.</p> <p>Non-golfers are welcome to join us for dinner and dancing.</p> <p>Tickets are on sale at Pagani Hair Salon &#38; The Chew Chew. Cost is $150 (all day) or $40 (dinner &#38; dancing only).</p> <p>Lunch &#38; Range 11:00am<br /> Shot Gun Start 12:30pm<br /> Dinner &#38; Music 6:00pm</p> <p>All proceeds benefit the Riverside Chamber of Commerce. Hope to see you there! </p> http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic/40-worth-of-chew-chew-for-20#post-13373 Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:22:25 +0000 ChrisHajer 13373@http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/ <p>1800 sold in all. I hope lots of the purchases were from out of town, so people can see what a great restaurant it is and will tell their friends and come back. </p> http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic/40-worth-of-chew-chew-for-20#post-13372 Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:49:19 +0000 EricSundstrom 13372@http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/ <p>Over 1300 sold as of 4:45 pm </p> http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic/40-worth-of-chew-chew-for-20#post-13370 Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:48:33 +0000 ChrisHajer 13370@http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/ <p><a href="http://www.groupon.com/deals/the-chew-chew" rel="nofollow">http://www.groupon.com/deals/the-chew-chew</a></p> <p>If you don't know what Groupon is, you buy a coupon of a certain face value, typically at 50% off. Today's Deal is $40 worth of stuff at Chew Chew for just $20. When the number of commitments to purchase reach a certain threshold, the deal "tips" and the "deal is on." It's interesting to note the deal tipped at 100 (meaning Chew Chew wanted at least 100 commitments to buy) and as of right now there have been 777 purchases. I hope a lot of the purchases come from outside Riverside.</p> <p>You only have until midnight tonight to make the purchase, so, do it now!</p> <p><a href="http://www.groupon.com/deals/the-chew-chew" rel="nofollow">http://www.groupon.com/deals/the-chew-chew</a> </p> http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic/parking-observations#post-10958 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 09:13:49 +0000 mr 10958@http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/ <p>I was at Chew Chew about 1:00pm. A woman came in an handed Scott a large box that looked like it held a cake. Perhaps the woman was delivering the cake for the evening party. </p> <p>As I understand it, Riverside Foods does not want people parking in their lot when they are closed. They get deliveries after hours. I think that a place like St. Mary's is not going to "invite" parking for non participants in Church activities. I think there are liability and insurance issues. I believe there is a different standard of care owed "invitees".</p> <p>I agree that Oak Park has several parking garages and they are not super convenient to the stores. Still, parking in Oak Park is a hassle. For a quick in and out of a store, do you really want a two block walk? If you plan to spend a few hours there, the walk isn't a problem. Time limit expirations on meters is also an issue. Occasionally, I take those classes at Flavors in Forest Park, and you have to be careful where you park because classes are three hours and the meter limit is two hours.</p> <p>The fact of the matter is that a business like Chew Chew made a major investment in Riverside, and would like a relatively small investment in existing property. The investment would not make the use of the lots irreversible in the future. Also, the "green" parking lot that Fred describes might be a morale booster for people who live here as well as the business community. It is nice to see a "forward" looking invstment rather than a stagnant gravel lot or two homes that are not consistent with the whole FLO thing that is so sacred to so many people. </p> http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic/parking-observations#post-10953 Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:58:27 +0000 ChrisHajer 10953@http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/ <p>I didn't know where best to post this, these anecdotal parking observations in our CBD.</p> <p>Today about 7:15 the family headed over to Grumpy's and we took note of the number of cars parked on Burlington. Burlington was pretty full up from Riverside Bank all the way to the jeweler, and the post office parking lot was full, except for a few spaces, and then about 5 spaces along the tracks (south of the mailboxes) in that lot were full too. We ended up parking where Dan parks normally, between the back door of the post office and the tracks.</p> <p>I was thinking at the time if we had just one more successful business on Burlington, open at those hours, that we'd really have a parking problem. As it was, with just 3 businesses open, the spots were pretty much taken up. I was thinking if a successful business moved into the VC corner space, like another restaurant, we'd really, rally have a problem.</p> <p>Then I started thinking about towns like Oak Park with their parking garages (I know of three that I use pretty regularly: I never end up parking right in front of the store or restaurant I am patronizing in Oak Park) and how far a walk it is from the garage to my destination.</p> <p>We also took note of the number of empty spaces in the St. Mary parking lot and Riverside Foods as well.</p> <p>We also took note of the window stickers on the cars. On the 20 cars we checked on the walk back from Grumpy's to our car it broke down about like this, in order of frequency:</p> <p>Chicago<br /> Riverside<br /> Brookfield<br /> No sticker<br /> Berwyn<br /> Out of state</p> <p>For all I know there was one big party with a lot of out-of-town guests there. </p> http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic/downtown-proposal/page/2#post-10501 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:35:25 +0000 TomJacobs 10501@http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/ <p>This might just be the catalist needed to start building consensus around positive development in the CBD. A couple of things seem important, though:</p> <p>- While organic planning and implementation can work (i.e. many medieval towns, hill towns, which were built without a master plan and developed one at a time, very organically), the formulation of a vision and master plan for the CBD would be the equivalent of a yardstick with with to evaluate everything from parking, walkability, density, etc. I thought the last Board's workshops that happened as part of the TIF debate were very useful, and the current Board should build upon the work done back then and host similar events this fall.</p> <p>- With regard to money, which appears to have been the achilles heel in most prior attempts to improve the CBD, we should look into public-private partnership financing opportunities. Since the proposed plan is very specific to one or a few business owners but would also benefit the broad public, the cost to plan and implement could maybe be split between the Village and the business owners. </p> http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic/downtown-proposal/page/2#post-10499 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:38:09 +0000 spatny 10499@http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/ <p>I went to EDC last night and they voted unanimously to recommend that Preservation and Planning look at it. General consensus was that it would be helpful for summer business at Grumpy's and Chew Chew and might be applicable elsewhere. Perhaps some reluctance to eliminate all the spaces in one place. Interestingly there were three Trustees and Pres. Gorman in attendance, plus the VM. That's a lot better than it used to be - I can remember meetings when just Nick and I were in attendance. </p> http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic/downtown-proposal/page/2#post-10488 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:22:20 +0000 commonsense 10488@http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/ <p>Another premature vote here against speed bumps. I <strong>can't stand </strong>speed bumps. </p>