This thread discusses the Content article: Hard times at Midtown Village

For a mere $800, you too can stay in this fabulous resort for a week. Located right on exotic State Street in Orem, you can drift to sleep at night, listening to the gentle sounds of muffler-less low-riders and motorcycles cruising up and down the street. You can enjoy the sweet smell of the hydrocarbon impregnated air and look out over the beautiful vista created by the the unfinished tower on the the other side of the project. It's a steal. So check it out today!

Midtown Village Timeshare

For a mere free website login, you too can display your utter lack of basic human compassion, ambition and talent by writing a witless, sarcastic lampoon that not only sneers at and derides someone with the courage to take a risk to make his dream come true, but mocks our community's efforts to make its urban growth go in a positive way.

Did't that piece of land where Midtown Village now stands used to be a trailer park and a crime concern for the City of Orem?

When people are done wasting their time and intellect getting their jollies at others' expense, I hope they'll wake up and realize that the tide that caught Midtown Village is the same tide we all count on to keep all of our property values afloat.

This isn't just a hardship for Larry Myler, this is an economic setback for the City of Orem, Utah County, and to a degree the state of Utah.

It is in everyone's best interest locally to see this project successfully complete. Common sense should have us all pulling for it.

Blog801 wrote:
For a mere free website login, you too can display your utter lack of basic human compassion, ambition and talent by writing a witless, sarcastic lampoon that not only sneers at and derides someone with the courage to take a risk to make his dream come true, but mocks our community's efforts to make its urban growth go in a positive way.

Did't that piece of land where Midtown Village now stands used to be a trailer park and a crime concern for the City of Orem?

When people are done wasting their time and intellect getting their jollies at others' expense, I hope they'll wake up and realize that the tide that caught Midtown Village is the same tide we all count on to keep all of our property values afloat.

This isn't just a hardship for Larry Myler, this is an economic setback for the City of Orem, Utah County, and to a degree the state of Utah.

It is in everyone's best interest locally to see this project successfully complete. Common sense should have us all pulling for it.
Might I suggest going back to bed and then getting out of it on the right side?

Now, as far as human compassion, where is yours for the people who used to live in the trailer park?

Pittakos wrote:
Might I suggest going back to bed and then getting out of it on the right side?

Now, as far as human compassion, where is yours for the people who used to live in the trailer park?
Ah, the proud satirist can dish out out but can't take it. No matter.

You are the one writing to make fun of another's misfortune, and then to defend your pride. I am the one writing to exhort us all to pull for Midtown Village and for our local economy... I think you might be a bit bed dyslexic.

Pittakos wrote:
Might I suggest going back to bed and then getting out of it on the right side?

Now, as far as human compassion, where is yours for the people who used to live in the trailer park?
BTW, I grew up in 2 different trailer parks, and trust me, we would have LOVED to have had a Midtown Village condo instead.

Cheers!

Actually, I am not making fun of anyone's misfortune. What I am making fun of is the concept and the ridiculous prices. If you bothered to follow the link I posted, you would have seen that this is being promoted as a resort condo. Excuse me?! A resort condo on State Street in Orem for 800 smackers a week? Where's the beach? Where's the golf course? Where's the casino? Where's the attraction? Those are prices you pay for a resort when you go to some exotic place.

As far as you wishing you had a Midtown Condo instead of a trailer, sure, I can understand that but I'd like a Beverly Hills mansion. Wishes and reality are two different things however. The condos are way overpriced and hence the reason the project is failing. So, you see, my satire isn't about the project. It's about the unrealistic marketing. I wish Mr. Myler all the luck in the world in finishing his project. At least the finished project will look better than the unfinished building that is there now.