where should they put the new Motel/Hotel

[Beck]

Okay.. I read in the paper yesterday that the 900 block is no longer available for the Motel/Hotel... They said there will be one in Tyrone so does anyone have any suggestions where... or why.... or maybe why not! I think we have talked about this before but since "it is going to happen" maybe we need to discuss it once again..

[Blain]

They should put it out of its misery.

[jayestewart]

I think a hotel/motel would be great where the current Lincoln School stands.

[banksy]

I think it would be best where Morris Levine is now in that area.... highly visible to I-99, walking distance to downtown business/eataries.

[Rick]

I think it would be best where Morris Levine is now...

Didn't he move out to Altoona, in the old Toy Warehouse location a few years back?

[banksy]

It's the ShoeFly in the plaza behind Red Lobster.

[Beck]

The Shoefly is Levines. It all belongs to Todd Lewis... I think H & R Block is in the Levines store now until Tax season is over, which will be soon!!

[sissy31696]

Actually its Jackson Hewitt that is in the old Levine's building, H&R Block is across the street closer to the old F&M building.

[Beck]

Thanks for the correction.. you can tell I don't take my taxes at those places!!!

[baggyman]

...about the motel being seen from the freeway. They are sure to erect an 80 foot Pylon sign to rival the mill's smoke-stack. Everyone will know Tyrone by the stack on one end and pylon on the other, and point as they blow by on their way to Altoona or State College.

I'm all for more business in Tyrone, and a motel might bring a smidgen to the downtown area (almost only during football season) but I don't agree that this idea has been thought through, without bias, for the good of the town. What the h*ll is all this talk about "historical value" of buildings infused with the idea of a mediocre motel that just won't fit in with the scheme. It sounds like pork-barrel politics to me. Why aren't we all pursuing "clean"industry for the area? The industrial age is OVER for America. We're all lost in a time warp here and need to change or perish. Technology: electronic, genetic, micro-mechanical, etc. That's where America is at right now. The only areas of the country that are growing and prospering are the areas that develop this sort of industry. Academic areas, like State College, supply the brain-power and California, New York, Florida, Arizona, forward-thinking states with forward-thinking leaders are gobbling them up to run their new industries. Pittsburgh made the change from steel to techno-industry, why can't Tyrone.


A MOTEL...??? Give me a break! Can't we think a little bigger, and maybe a little out-of-the-box? It's only our town and our kids and grand-kids at stake. Move the damned thing to Irish Flats or something.

just my 2 cents...

[banksy]

All I am saying is that when I come home and need a hotel, I say in Altoona. Going outside the box might also mean you need a hotel to support whatever else you bring in. When thinking outside the box, don't limit the idea to just a hotel. This doesn't have to be a hote and nothing else.

[Harlow]

Very true, it shouldn't be the thinking of Hotel or else, but the blind (Stoner) leading the blind (Council) has the only thing on the mind is the hotel.

While we are thinking out of the box, where do you propose for this high tech business to go in Tyrone? There isn't anything open unless you do eminent domain and bulldoze half of Pa. Ave. Not that it doesn't need it.

[Robbuck]

Well we already have a High Tech business on Penna Ave...
If you remember we have Reclamere in the old A&P building...What would be wrong with something where the Villa used to be???