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Title: Downtown Businessman Locked Out Of His Business
Post by: jay on February 15, 2017, 03:12:14 PM
Just Heard On The Street

A North Phelps Street businessman has been locked out of his business and can not gain access to his building to retrieve his belongings.

Note - It was reported months ago that the same building was sold at sheriff's sale.
Title: Re: Downtown Businessman Locked Out Of His Business
Post by: JoyceFarrell on February 15, 2017, 03:14:27 PM
I take it you are speaking of Jim from Pig Iron Press.
Title: Re: Downtown Businessman Locked Out Of His Business
Post by: jay on February 16, 2017, 01:32:48 PM
I walked past the business this morning.  The building is full of stuff.  There is a rotting pumpkin in the front window.
Title: Re: Downtown Businessman Locked Out Of His Business
Post by: Irishbobcat on February 16, 2017, 02:20:07 PM
It may take a year to clean that place out.....sorry to see this happen.....A better business model probably could have kept this place afloat.....
Title: Re: Downtown Businessman Locked Out Of His Business
Post by: Nicholas Serra on February 17, 2017, 02:55:36 PM
What do people expect when they don't pay bills? The building was sold months ago. Plenty of time to move those items.
Title: Re: Downtown Businessman Locked Out Of His Business
Post by: jay on February 23, 2017, 08:14:44 PM
New locks and deadbolts have been installed.
Title: Re: Downtown Businessman Locked Out Of His Business
Post by: Irishbobcat on February 25, 2017, 11:02:03 AM
New owner has given Jim 24 hours this weekend to remove as many belongings as possible.....
Title: Re: Downtown Businessman Locked Out Of His Business
Post by: Irishbobcat on February 26, 2017, 08:15:27 PM
I heard tonight the whole move fell through. Apparently Jim could not get into the building this weekend. Needless to say he is very upset......
Title: Re: Downtown Businessman Locked Out Of His Business
Post by: Nicholas Serra on February 26, 2017, 08:52:55 PM
What has he been doing for the four months since the building was sold?
Title: Re: Downtown Businessman Locked Out Of His Business
Post by: Irishbobcat on February 27, 2017, 09:27:23 AM
Apparently not removing his belongings.....
Title: Re: Downtown Businessman Locked Out Of His Business
Post by: jay on August 17, 2017, 04:36:26 PM
Nothing new to report.  The building is still full of stuff.
Title: Re: Downtown Businessman Locked Out Of His Business
Post by: Irishbobcat on August 19, 2017, 11:03:52 AM
I can't believe the new owners are paying a mortgage and letting the building sit unused for months......Looks like no one wants to haul all that stuff out......
Title: Re: Downtown Businessman Locked Out Of His Business
Post by: iwasthere on August 21, 2017, 12:36:55 AM
I blame it on ytown first nite entertainment committee
Title: Re: Downtown Businessman Locked Out Of His Business
Post by: Irishbobcat on August 21, 2017, 07:44:49 AM
I'm sure Trump and the Russians are involved as well......
Title: Re: Downtown Businessman Locked Out Of His Business
Post by: iwasthere on August 22, 2017, 11:39:56 AM
Uncle tony from Belmont as well
Title: Re: Downtown Businessman Locked Out Of His Business
Post by: Rushblvd on September 14, 2017, 06:43:05 AM
Did he end up getting his stuff out???
Didn't he have a cat inside????

It would be a great place for spies and other agents to meet... :laugh:
Title: Re: Downtown Businessman Locked Out Of His Business
Post by: iwasthere on September 14, 2017, 09:21:47 AM
Right under the windows of the fbi drug enforcement agency. ;D
Title: Re: Downtown Businessman Locked Out Of His Business
Post by: jay on September 22, 2017, 08:58:27 PM
Question

Is the Pig Iron Press Building being cleaned out this weekend?
Title: Re: Downtown Businessman Locked Out Of His Business
Post by: Irishbobcat on October 06, 2017, 03:55:59 PM
Removing items have been taking place all week....but there are still 2 whole floors that have to be removed......Maybe by Christmas......lots of stuff!!!!
Title: Re: Downtown Businessman Locked Out Of His Business
Post by: Rushblvd on October 07, 2017, 06:00:08 AM
Who bought the building?? (Lazy-I don't want to check the Auditors website)
And, what are they going to do with this building?

Title: Re: Downtown Businessman Locked Out Of His Business
Post by: iwasthere on October 07, 2017, 04:34:22 PM
Downtown circle owner for his hooka bar.
Title: Re: Downtown Businessman Locked Out Of His Business
Post by: JoyceFarrell on October 07, 2017, 04:42:37 PM
Hookah lounges are mostly found in college towns (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_town) and urban areas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_area) and are regarded by some as a novel and chic way to socialize and embrace multiculturalism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiculturalism), but not only that. Certain lounges offer modern hookahs with fruit bowls or other kinds of improvements over smoking hookah at home.Some people of Middle Eastern (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East) or South Asian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asia) extraction consider them a continuation of their own cultural traditions. Hookah lounges nowadays often distance themselves from the eastern cultures offering hookah and alcohol without the cultural elements. These bars differ from other bars only in the fact that they offer hookah.
Typically a disposable mouthpiece is provided for each user forhygiene (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene) reasons. Hookah lounges do not typically have liquor licenses (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquor_license) but instead derive the bulk of their revenue from sales of coffee (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee), tea (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea), soft drinks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_drink)and snack foods (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snack_food). Almost all offer Turkish coffee (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_coffee). Some hookah lounges have well-equipped kitchens and are more akin to bistros (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bistro). In the broadest sense, any restaurant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restaurant) or nightclub (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightclub) can be considered a hookah lounge if it offers patrons hookahs, shisha and a comfortable place to smoke. Some offer Middle Eastern cuisine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Eastern_cuisine) menu items. Due to state anti-tobacco laws, many hookah bars have made the transition from smoking traditional shisha to smoking herbal shisha because it contains no tobacco, or nicotine and is legal indoors in areas specific to the prohibition of tobacco smoking. Herbs do produce tar when they burn.
Title: Re: Downtown Businessman Locked Out Of His Business
Post by: Irishbobcat on October 09, 2017, 10:36:30 AM
Not my type of hangout....
Title: Re: Downtown Businessman Locked Out Of His Business
Post by: jay on October 13, 2017, 05:57:08 AM
I looked through the front window of the Pig Iron Press Building this week.  Most of the contents on the first floor have been removed.
Title: Re: Downtown Businessman Locked Out Of His Business
Post by: jay on November 02, 2017, 05:51:43 AM
The operator of Pig Iron Press is looking for a new location to set up shop.

Any suggestions?
Title: Re: Downtown Businessman Locked Out Of His Business
Post by: JoyceFarrell on November 02, 2017, 06:34:54 AM
There are a couple of locations on East Midlothian Blvd. but if he chose one of them he would not be able to turn it into a pig sty like his downtown location. His downtown store was nothing more than a dump the way he kept it. I'm amazed that the city didn't get on his back about the trashey way he kept his shop.
Title: Re: Downtown Businessman Locked Out Of His Business
Post by: jay on November 03, 2017, 08:18:48 AM
Any suggestions?

There is a storefront for rent next to Youngstown Plumbing on Mahoning Avenue.
Title: Re: Downtown Businessman Locked Out Of His Business
Post by: Irishbobcat on November 03, 2017, 08:31:03 AM
There are a lot of locations in the city I bet have cheap rent....
Title: Re: Downtown Businessman Locked Out Of His Business
Post by: JoyceFarrell on November 03, 2017, 10:53:36 AM
What sort of location is he looking for? What will he be doing at a new location?
Title: Re: Downtown Businessman Locked Out Of His Business
Post by: jay on November 03, 2017, 10:57:17 AM
There's space to rent inside the former Ward Bakery Building on Mahoning Avenue.  This is where many artists have their studios.
Title: Re: Downtown Businessman Locked Out Of His Business
Post by: Irishbobcat on November 03, 2017, 01:17:46 PM
The question is what is the store coming back as? A printing press or used bookstore or both? I have seen a few used bookstores go out of business in the past few years. Do printing presses still make money these days?
Title: Re: Downtown Businessman Locked Out Of His Business
Post by: iwasthere on November 05, 2017, 05:42:33 AM
pip has two possible sites one in struthers, oh and the other in jackson township, oh.
Title: Re: Downtown Businessman Locked Out Of His Business
Post by: JoyceFarrell on November 05, 2017, 08:59:36 AM
I VOTE FOR MINGO JUNCTION!
OR STUBENVILLE!