Comments on: Thursday’s column: How much can City Market merchants endure?

By: JoAnn Criscione

JoAnn Criscione — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 02:01:27 +0000

Please tell me that Ernie’s on the market has not gone out of business! I read today in the paper that a bar is opening in the spring “in the old Ernie’s location”. This is awful!!! I hope it has moved. If so, can you tell me where?

By: Jeff Campell

Jeff Campell — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:08:25 +0000

Great column !

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Duane Howard wrote – “..$9.00 for the only hamburger in the Market Bldg. is simple out of reach for most tourist and residents visiting the Market.

Comment by E. Duane Howard — January 24, 2013 @ 9:33 am

That comment could be inaccurate or misleading. Where did you get your hamburger Duane ? You didnt say.

I saw no 9$ hamburger by itself in the Market Building.

Our’s was fairly less than that from All-Sports Cafe and included the drink and fries. Thanks

By: Steve C

Steve C — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 04:19:42 +0000

John W,

I’ll be moving back to the valley full time in a month or so. Lets do both.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 04:02:02 +0000

Butterfield can’t even get his post on the right thread. So exciting to know he’s blundering around armed.

By: John Wilburn

John Wilburn — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 03:31:05 +0000

Steve C:

“EDH, Martins has outstanding burgers in your price range. They also do 1/2 price burgers on Mondays. Highly recommended.”

Sharkey’s in Blacksburg has buy one, get one free burgers on Mondays and they are delicious. Steve C, if you’ll be in Blacksburg some time, Monday or not, I’ll gladly treat you to one.
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By: Ann Hale

Ann Hale — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 02:56:13 +0000

The heart of the market area are people and vendors, enjoying a market atmosphere, produce, plants, sum of dis and sum of dat. What makes the Market special? Our attachment to it…and the stories and the memories of time well spent roaming the limited spaces, brushing up against other Roanokers we may often see, or seldom see. We purchase as a way to share the wealth and respect the efforts of farmers and growers, yes, and even handbag artists.
I am an artist at the Market Gallery. The renovation lag at 202 Market ruined things for us. Remember up the stairs and 12 studios and great art? Traffic on that side of the street disappeared as Kipp and Calhoun will agree. So we moved up Wall St, and have endured construction ever since. We celebrated ten years of business this Fall.
We are hanging on for the long haul, but I wrote the City Manager that their “essential constructions” are ruining one of the best things about Roanoke. Some things you can”t replace. Burger in the Square is out on Brambleton, and it’s not a bad drive. And, there is still a line out the door. Someday soon, they will be looking at a lot of vacancies, and the people living downtown, will take off, as the heart of the city has been prettified out of existence. The decision makers probably consider all these comments as just the usual complaints about change. Recognizing the truth is subtle, and takes a listening ear that is attached to its heart.

By: gdad

gdad — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 02:33:20 +0000

“I consider it irresponsible to go unarmed in today’s society.”

One of the most idiotic lines ever from gun toters. I don’t carry a gun and never have. And I am not irresponsible.

By: OJ, E. Pulaski County, 1900'

OJ, E. Pulaski County, 1900' — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 02:00:13 +0000

Yeah gdad, it took me by surprise. Generally, in the past anyway, a trip to downtown Roanoke on a weekday entailed lunch at the Market building. But now it seems that is a rarity because they people who choose pick somewhere else.

By: Sally Betsy

Sally Betsy — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:42:17 +0000

Wouldn’t you know it! The market is going to lose the parking spaces that I have depended on in my “old age”! Walking a few extra blocks (#31 above) is not so easy for everyone. Tell a handicapped person to just suck it up! I can drive in and out of the market area most days without having to whip the block too many times. I understand the market concept – it’s just going to leave me out. I cannot shop there if I have to park blocks away and it makes me sad.

By: Allen Butterfield

Allen Butterfield — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:44:54 +0000

I am a 70 year old retired pharmacist. My father taught me to hunt and fish. We ate everything we caught or killed. I inherited his deer rifle and shotgun. I do not consider myself a gun nut. My concealed carry permit was not purchased it was earned. I consider it irresponsible to go unarmed in today’s society.
Regards,
Allen Butterfield