I think that kinda stuff is frowned upon.

Most people I've met in Shorewood seem like they are on something.

I would, too. Or a small cafe for breakfast and lunch.

I like those suggestions, Bob. Perhaps you should consider running for a position on our village planning board...

I might have a shot at it. Your village has a record of almost unanimous support for carpetbaggers who live one community to the north.

Bob, My suggestion may fill your criteria. My only concern is that the perpetually outraged are cheap, so catering to them may be a challenge.

Apparently, we have yet to hear from Alan?

Just don't....

Alan - hahahaha!!! :-)

Hoffa knows a guy that would be perfect to implement such a novel concept!

Jimmy John's has free smells.

Yeah, I'm experiencing deja vu also, Cricket...round and round and round we go.

If you miss Actaea so much, all you have to do is google their number/website call/click for an appointment and drive across the Hoan bridge; it's not like they moved to Madison. Besides, there are still a lot of the old Actaea stylists working at other salons around Shorewood and the greater north shore.
Also, I just read in this thread: http://shorewood.patch.com/articles/another-pizza-place-coming-to-shorewood that "the manager at Actaea told my wife they were closing because Oakland Ave is becoming a strip mall.." and I had to laugh. How little appreciation that business manager had for Shorewood after thirteen odd years of support from this community is just sad.

The question posed by the article doesn't really warrant a serious answer. I believe Dan Katz owns the building. If you know his reputation you couldn't possibly expect any suggestion here to hit his radar screen, much less be taken seriously. Whatever goes in there, assuming anything ever does without further subdividing the space and altering the southern street level facade to accommodate such subdividing is going to have to contend with some very Shorewood-ish "arguments", such as people already complaining about having to park 50 feet farther away from Sendiks than they did in the past. This location is even more distant from that parking structure that people are complaining about.

Nothing's likely to happen there until Lighthorse is done. You could very well end up with another "Actea" or some other service based operation designed to appeal to the empty-nesters/young singles/couples that can be expected to occupy that development. Almost nothing could be less appropriate for that corner than a hardware store.

Then a Cheese Shop. Because we all know what goes best with cheese...
No it's not sausage or crackers.

http://youtu.be/AS8X2Qp_6aA

Perhaps even a bookstore co-op.

Shorewood can front startup money, and I'm sure we can find someone around here to run the place. What can go wrong?

I think someone already suggested that CW. Quit taking all my good ideas. I only have like one a month and cannot have you co-op (pun intended) them!

@CowDung -

That's a brilliant idea - a co-op bookstore funded with public monies and managed by a local!

Although, Hoffa is pretty sure that he has heard this one before...

For Shorewood's road-ragers!

2 miles? That's pretty far outside of Shorewood, isn't it?

:::crickets:::: on this one? C'mon, it's the perfectly progressive suggestion.

A whine shop! Smashing idea Donny!

How can we complain about a lack of parking when many in the Patch collective were upset that Anaba wanted to tear down a house to put in more parking? All I've been reading on that thread is that parking isn't really an issue and people should be willing to walk a few of blocks instead of expecting that parking be available near the store...

The biggest problem for parking is during the winter. Shorewood use to clear the walks in the business district, now they must plow the streets and dump as much snow as they can on the parkway, which quickly turns to ice and is almost impossible for the shop owners to clear ....in between running their business, and many of them have women or girls who don't have the strength.

When somebody does park at the curb, they then have to walk in the street to the nearest corner or driveway to get to the sidewalk.

I realize this snow obstacle problem is too plebian a concept for our esteemed Village Board to grasp and resolve --- they have much more important things to do like giving away business grants which have not proven to be a panacea for residential taxpayers, as they continually contend it is intended to be.

What the hell is an ice shop?

@David -

"they have much more important things to do like giving away business grants which have not proven to be a panacea for residential taxpayers, as they continually contend it is intended to be."

Blasphemy! Don't you remember that successful co-op book store that was operated by a Patch commentator that received one of those grants?

Oh wait, never mind :-)