Contrary to popular belief, I don't relish when something like this happens. But, it's not like I didn't warn them.
Here's one of DevCorp North's biggest propaganda flunky's, Camelot Realty. They recently moved on Morse Avenue at Greenview; a) - to be close to DevCorp North? Or b) - make a statement that Morse Avenue is safe?
Well, today, they got a taste of what the Morse Avenue Hell Hole is all about. Today Camelot has a 'Broken Window' - and a 'Broken Heart'.
The moral of the story is simple. Business owners, if you are thinking of moving your business to Morse Avenue, don't listen to DevCorp North. If you want security bars on your business windows, by all means, put them UP. You'll thank me the next time something like this happens.
Related CAPS Beat 2431: Smashed Windows Force Business to Flee.
Related CAPS Beat 2431: Fight Leads to Broken Window on Morse.
Related CAPS Beat 2431: Smashed Window at Morse Gyros with police tape wrapped around it.
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"DevCorp has been encouraging businesses along Morse Avenue to discard their exterior metal security gates ... "
"The metal gates are a deterrent to prospective businesses," [Rene] Camargo [community development coordinator for DevCorp North] said."
"Camargo said that it only costs businesses a few hundred dollars to remove the exterior metal security gates."
Chicago Journal News-Star
SSA #24 Member Katy Hogan Gets the Broken Window treatment.
More window problems in beat 2431. FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2007: Does this look like a bullet hole to you?
Let me guess DevCorp frowns when a business takes a very common sense step such as putting security bars on their windows. Is that it?
If I were the owner of a business along Morse or some other high-crime street, I would tell Rene Camargo that I would remove my iron gates when he and DevCorp signed a document guaranteeing that he, and his organization, would pay for the additional insurance premiums AND for any criminal damage and loss to my property, and that until I got such a written, signed assurance, the gates were staying up.
how can we hope that reputable businesses will come to rogers park if vandals; keep defacing local businesses
You're right, Rogers, it's a miracle we have any reputable businesses left. This has been quite some spate of B&E, with considerable property damage.
Unlike Devcorp, these business owners cannot tap into the public till to make good their losses. Camelot might have money, but many of the others are operated by people who almost have to live in the back of their stores illegally, for they make so little money off them. How many times can they replace their plate glass windows, especially after their insurance companies CXL their policies because of too many losses?
I've never been one for conspiracy theories, but I can't help but feel in my gut that our city pols would just as soon these little businesses disappear so they can have an excuse to "blight" the area via eminent domain proceedings, the better to enable some tax-subsidized big box or one of their other big corporate cronies to redevelop the area with tax-subsidized gimmes like TIF and tax abatements.
Between the crime,the death duty sales and property taxes, the official obstruction, and the tax-funded competition from large corporations, I don't know how these small businesses make it. It's a wonder we have any left.
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