Heir Flick of the Gestapo wrote:
Um... Isn't there a slight disparity between the cost of one and the other. These units start at 329,000. You can buy half a trailer park for that. I don't suppose any of the displaced people are now living in the new structure, they are living in low income housing someplace else.
Your confusion comes from not having read the thread. The context is about WISHING, not investing.

As for the other critics, come on...

Wouldn't Orem be better off with a successful Midtown Village, than it was with a trailer park there, or a half finished complex?

That's what I'm saying, and I can't understand how someone could honestly argue otherwise.

As for the sellmytimeshare.com ad, I AGREE that is way over the top, but I do know as an investor myself that this kind of thing is done ALL the time, so you kind of take that sales babble stuff in stride. I hate it, and I personally couldn't do that, and I don't doubt this sets potential investors up to be disappointed.

Criticizing the City of Orem's involvement is naive at best. Do you have ANY idea what the difference in tax revenues for the City will be with a successful Midtown Village over that trailer park?! They were right to jump on that. Had the economy continued to grow at the rate these guys must have thought it would, every tax payer in Orem would have benefited.

The bottom line is the tide changed for Midtown Village, but it has changed for us all. There are a lot of good people here struggling to sell houses for a price that isn't too much of a loss, and struggling to make the mortgage payments for vacant properties.

Additionally, there are contractors and workers who were no doubt planning on working this summer who aren't because construction was halted. THESE guys might be struggling to make their own payments now.

Wake up everyone! This isn't just Mr. Myler's problem, this is Orem's problem.

THAT is what I am saying!

Blog801, may I be the first, today, to wish you a happy day.

Well, now, Blog801, your sense of humor is totally non-existent or you're having a really crappy day. Which is it?

I wondered what your take was on Midtown, and if I understood your post, you're an investor --- so maybe you are just having a crappy day. Even so, taking personal potshots at Pitt was beneath you. You remind me of some investors I had the unfortunate opportunity to know. . .they talk all "sweet" when they want us to spend money/invest in their pet project (as you did in your post saying the website for Midtown was over the top). But, THEN, if we don't care for the project, don't want to invest or reconsider and want to pull out, then your other personality comes out, and all bets are off (your attack on Pitt). Is this how you conduct business on a day-to-day basis? I would welcome any corrections to my opinion of you.

Pittakos wrote:
Blog801, may I be the first, today, to wish you a happy day.

I hope, Blog801, you feel about as big as a piss ant.

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.

I'm sorry but I don't see this as a "common sense" project to begin with. Never in my wildest dreams would I ever think of that spot in Orem as a "resort" atmosphere...you'd have to level the entire area and rebuild it, not just knock out a trailer park and do some fancy talking.

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.


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?

Now they have an unfinished, eyesore that's sitting empty and sure to become a target of vandalism.

Great trade!