February 05, 2007

you just can't make this sh*t up!

From Troy, MI:

Troy, a high-income city of just 80,000 people and home to [Michigan's] only Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue department stores, now has another distinction. It is the only non-resort city of its size to have two Hooters.

"You come directly off the interstate and that's the first thing you come to," said Wade Fleming, a councilman who voted in June to reject the transfer of a liquor licence to the new Hooters restaurant from a rundown tavern that once operated at the same location. "That starts to define Troy, I think, and that's not how we'd like to define Troy."

Hooters executives want just one restaurant in Troy but the company won't close the old one until it's allowed to serve alcohol at the new restaurant, which opened Monday on a larger, more visible site.

Critics are concerned that the restaurants' scantily clad servers don't fit the image the city seeks to project in its Big Beaver commercial district." (emphasis mine- Ed.)

h/t Ken and McG, who got it from Dustbury

Posted by caltechgirl at February 5, 2007 11:05 AM | TrackBack
Comments

Come on, its Troy we're talking about (a city that is more or less the shape of the township that was there first). Its not like the Hooters is in Bloomfield Hills or across the street from the Cranbrook Academy.

And yes, 16 Mile does become Big Beaver Road once it enters Oakland County. You just can't make this stuff up.

Big Beaver is a serious road, boulevarded with three lanes each way and specially designed left turn lanes to handle the traffic flow.

The largish mall that is Troy is "The Somerset Collection" which has major buildings both north and south of West Big Beaver Road. These buildings (each as big as most malls) are connected via a skywalk that is an 1/8th of a mile long.

Seems like The Somerset Collection was built after the Fairlane Town Center started having problems with gangs.

What is really odd about this situation is that Hooters wants to put a restaurant with liquor license where the Master Plan for the City of Troy has the land zoned for a restaurant with liquor license. You can't get any wierder than that.

Posted by: The Thomas at February 5, 2007 08:01 PM

I'm sorry... but I have a horrible sense of humor... hooters... big beaver... ba wa hahahahaha

Posted by: vw bug at February 6, 2007 05:00 AM

Big Beaver!?

Our Hooters just closed. Thank God!

Posted by: Marie at February 6, 2007 06:51 AM

Big Beaver. Heh.

Posted by: Richmond at February 7, 2007 09:31 AM