The "as big as your head" burritos were epic at 2 AM.
There are 2 under construction currently. One where the Garden House Apts and Eddie's Bicyles was, and another on West College at the split with Beaver(across from where O.W. Houts was). The thing is, all these new highrises have empty space at the bottom and no one is moving in. With the problem of finding help, many places downtown are closed in the evenings and non-football weekends.
And they always reappeared at 9am the next morning.
It's not some much as trouble finding help why all the retail space is open. Look around downtown, there is lots of retail space open in the legacy buildings too. The rents make opening downtown prohibitive at this time. Over the years, it seems to go in cycles. Rents get high, no businesses. They lower rent and they move in. Raise them again and out they go. Look outside of downtown and look how many businesses either had places downtown or started downtown and they got out. Sad.
Always stayed at the Days Inn in the summer months...played golf at Toftrees, have a beer there, then Pickles, The Skeller, Primantis and dinner at The Corner Room. Great times. Didn't eat at The Tavern, didn't want to run into Neuheisel!
There has to be a real estate bubble in State College. All of the development is not justified by higher enrollment. It could be really ugly when it pops.
Just curious…have you been engaged in the annual student housing rat race recently? Having just done through it with my freshman daughter, I can tell you definitively that there is extremely high demand for those new high rise apartment buildings which are demanding top dollar. And, their prominence has required every other property owner in town to invest in their buildings resulting in better property choices all around. Do I personally like the price points? Absolutely not. But that is where the market is and nobody is balking.
I've seen some of your other restaurant reviews and am impressed. Unofficial MacAndrew Board State College Food Critic?
I got a burrito in August 1984 at Pedros' and I am still tasting it.
I always thought that if you had a place that delivers breakfast, you could have a pretty good business in a college town. So, you can pre-order your breakfast the night before, with a delivery time. And a hot breakfast would be delivered to you.
As far as the apparent reduction in hotel rooms, does any of that have to do with AirBnB, VRBO or similar choices? Thereby reducing the need for an actual hotel for people to stay?
