What kind of retail business would you like to see in the former Arensberg’s Shoes space? / LJWorld.com

Asked at Massachusetts Street on February 27, 2010

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“Some sort of specialty store, a clothing store or a toy store.”

— Ken Campbell, business owner, Lawrence

“I’d like to see a nice clothing store for teenagers, something more trendy.”

— Jillian Watson, LHS senior, Lawrence

“A Build-A-Bear store.”

— Jenna Gaston, Langston Hughes first-grader, Lawrence

“I’d like to see an upscale clothing store catering to the Boomers”

— Blaine Allmond, jeweler, Pittsburg

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misterlee 3 years, 2 months ago

How about a big and tall clothing store? There's nothing like that in town now.

looza 3 years, 2 months ago

a baseball card shop or a candy store or a Laundry Mat.....in that order. Thank you and have a nice day!

sherbert 3 years, 2 months ago

How about another show store. One with reasonably priced shoes for everyone in the family. Not just clunky, trendy shoes that a high schooler or college student would wear.

snap_pop_no_crackle 3 years, 2 months ago

A nice quiet place where people can smoke hookahs loaded with incense.

BigPrune 3 years, 2 months ago

A vegetarian steakhouse, a barbecue, a thrift store, homeless shelter with soup kitchen.

Face it folks, it will most likely sit for a very long time since unemployment hovers at 20% using the Clinton method of figuring unemployment as opposed to Obama's method. 25% is a depression.

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 3 years, 2 months ago

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Soap 3 years, 2 months ago

maracas store so moar ppl can play maracas..

pandazrule 3 years, 2 months ago

YES!! Trader Joe's!

zstoltenberg 3 years, 2 months ago

I don't know that my budget could handle a Trader Joe's, I'd be there all the time!

phoggyjay 3 years, 2 months ago

A medical marijuana dispensary... it's about time people.

parrothead8 3 years, 2 months ago

A full-time local farmer's market.

TheBigW 3 years, 2 months ago

We need a good night club in downtown one where you can hear some good live music and get tanked, maybe make it a topless club too.

Dejacrew423 3 years, 2 months ago

Any kind of store that I won't go to. The less reasons I have to walk around Mass. the better. Sorry.

remember_username 3 years, 2 months ago

I think a firearm store or pawn shop would be hilarious. Better yet a store selling dehumidifiers on one side of the store and humidifiers on the other side of the store, cuckoo clocks on both walls - call the store "Partisanship is Hours".

tanaumaga 3 years, 2 months ago

massage parlor....i can see it the storefront now....happy ending

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 3 years, 2 months ago

Geesh, Welcome in the day properly...

BruceWayne 3 years, 2 months ago

a pawn shop or computer recycling center. both sure fire, no fail ventures.

riverdrifter 3 years, 2 months ago

A combination beer joint, bank and bait shop.

Everything you need.

sunny 3 years, 2 months ago

Put in there what ever you can afford.

toe 3 years, 2 months ago

He can build what ever he wants, as long as I do not have to subsidize it.

CWGOKU 3 years, 2 months ago

How about a shoe store... Or a gun, liquor, lingerie store. One stop shopping. Glad to see you survived your birthday Spacehog!

beatrice 3 years, 2 months ago

Lemur grooming shop

tomatogrower 3 years, 2 months ago

if it has to be a corporation, then Coldwater Creek. Otherwise, I'd like to see him make more money from the apartment rents, and charge smaller rents to a local business, so they can make a go of it.

sunny 3 years, 2 months ago

I would like to see the government (obamy) give tax credits to small businesses...and anyone making over $250,000

puddleglum 3 years, 2 months ago

I still want a drag strip. with hookahs, beer, and ammo on the side.

beatrice 3 years, 2 months ago

I'm assuming that the "40" is your IQ.

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 3 years, 2 months ago

Micro Cabela's Maybe they could have one stuffed badger.

Liberty275 3 years, 2 months ago

Strip club

RoeDapple 3 years, 2 months ago

School of massage therapy???

Pywacket 3 years, 2 months ago

Bea~ You just flattered the cretin.

I'd like to see either a C***-Ring Warehouse or Spatula City.... although a modest local business would be all right, too.

beatrice 3 years, 2 months ago

Time travel agency.

AnnaUndercover 3 years, 2 months ago

@paulette2 I am so with you on Trader Joe's! I'm dying without it. The closest one is in Missouri.

beatrice 3 years, 2 months ago

"C***-Ring Warehouse or Spatula City."

Py, I'm surprised you want more of the big, corporate box stores like those.

Anna, Trader Joe's rocks. We have one about four miles away. City life is good.

riverdrifter 3 years, 2 months ago

OK: Guy & Mae's Barbeque/Hooters/bait shop/high-end guns http://www.williamlarkinmoore.com/

That would do it. Though I would be tempted to thrown in the micro-Cabelas with a taxidermied possum.

Uhm, how much room we got to work with here?

Pywacket 3 years, 2 months ago

You're right, Bea. What was I thinking?!

Instead of those rich, heartless purveyors of overpriced c***-rings and spatulas (which, of course, are manufactured by starving, blind Indonesian children), we should throw our support behind local entrepreneurs, regardless of whatever they may be lacking in the personality department.

Certainly there are some eager souls in Lawrence who could sell locally made, organic products. Certain locals whose previous endeavors have sadly failed may wish to try something new--something that won't tax their limited mental capacity.

So here's hoping Maude's Pickle-Piercing Emporium and Tom & Barry's Melon Baller Barn meet with rousing success on Mass St.

KansasPerson 3 years, 2 months ago

Klondike Bar Emporium.

BruceWayne 3 years, 2 months ago

Bong hits for Paulette!

merrill 3 years, 2 months ago

Lands End
Sony Style
Apple Store
Lego Store - These are stores that stock past products,new products and products that cannot be purchased anywhere else. These are great stores for all ages. The nearest one is St Louis.

merrill 3 years, 2 months ago

OR bring Old Navy downtown....

mae 3 years, 2 months ago

Cheesecake factory would make a killing there and I don't know of ANYONE who doesn't like that place.

beatrice 3 years, 2 months ago

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toe 3 years, 2 months ago

How about a free clinic for Orthodontics.

Crossfire 3 years, 2 months ago

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Isabelle 3 years, 2 months ago

Hhmmm-this town needs a good furniture store and the Arensberg space is large enough to handle that kind of inventory. Another great idea is a clothing store that is not -that- trendy as Lawrence downtown has that area covered-too well. Not a restaurant-not a bar-umm not a toy store( we have that already...). My answers come from my thinking of what i leave Lawrence to purchase for my self and my family.

milkman_dan 3 years, 2 months ago

A nice colonic spa certainly would be a special addition to downtown. We'll throw in waxing & beaching to make it a prettier city.

Pywacket 3 years, 2 months ago

Isabelle~ I'm not sure a furniture store could make it in Lawrence. What kind of stuff are you thinking of? With the recent closure of Blue Heron, which stocked unique, higher-end items, it would seem that furniture might be a hard sell downtown. I'd love to see one, too--just not sure it would work.

Bea~Whatever did you say to get pinked?