Johnny's Pizza may open on Broad Street; DDA not tickled pink with Paula's new store color
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Paula’s on Broad sports a bright pink color scheme on its facade. (Charlotte Atkins/RN-T)
Franchisee Robert Blumberg plans a March opening of the pizzeria at 233 Broad St., according to Ann Arnold, executive director of the Downtown Development Authority. Riverside Gourmet, which currently occupies the site, is moving, although a new location has not yet been announced, said Manager Myra Hamilton.
The DDA has applied for a $130,000 Georgia Cities Foundation low-interest loan for Blumberg’s project — to renovate and prepare the building. Arnold said Thursday that he has alternate financing in place “but it always helps to get a lower rate.”
In addition to freshly made, hand-tossed pizzas, Johnny’s menu offers a variety of chicken wings, Italian dinners, pasta, salads, subs and calzones. Nearby locations include Rockmart, Cartersville, Kennesaw and Dallas.
Arnold made the announcement at Thursday’s DDA meeting.
The agency also approved a $500 façade grant to offset $4,320 worth of painting and repairs completed at 1 Broad St., the home of Downtown Mr. Brown’s barbecue.
Pink paint piques board
A similar request for Paula’s on Broad, however, was returned to committee for further review.
Greg Sumner, who chairs the design committee, said the application was tabled after the property changed hands — but the ensuing discussion quickly focused on the storefront’s new paint job with a pink color scheme.
“This is an historic district, and guidelines call for traditional colors,” Arnold said. “We are not on the coast.”
While neither the DDA nor the Historic Preservation Commission can dictate colors used by property owners, Arnold said the DDA has sole discretion on awarding its grants.
Roger Wade, who sold the building to Paula Conaway in October, expressed disappointment the grant would be withheld.
“I do understand the delicacy of the color situation, but that look is important to her (marketing),” he said. “This kind of control is why it’s not worth it to me, and other people, to use your grant program.”
Sumner said the application, submitted by Wade, was initially approved, but the situation changed with the sale.
The DDA typically provides only one form of assistance a year to a business owner, and Conaway received a $73,000 low-interest loan last month. She is free to apply for a façade grant in 2010, he said.
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for "girl's" female's, and " blue" was a symbol
for "boy's" male's? i just think the dda. has better thing's to be concerned about. they knew
paula's, symbol was pink so just why in the heck
are they so surprised that she painted her store
pink? it was pink before she moved to broad street.this whole non-situation is just a bunch of bolney.but i also bet if paula had the right name you would not have heard a word about her choise of color.
Yes. Voter has a Fan Club. I am the President of it. If you want to join, contact me.
If you do not want to join, I don't want to know about it.
Hello? Excuse me? I honestly think that arguing in these forums is ridiculous, however, I can't let this go. As I said before, Voter, you are terribly rude! Weren't you ever told if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all???
Model is a fine school. If you'll research test scores on this site, you'll find that Model usually has the highest across the board. To try to insult someone's intelligence by saying that they are a product of Model is ridiculous. How did the subject of a store front on Broad Street lead to degrading Model? Yes, issues have been had the last few years. A few bad apples do NOT spoil the bunch! Great kids and great teachers!
I understand that some people (that have nothing better to do and nothing else going on in their lives) like to instigate drama on public forums and that's ok. If that makes you happy. But please leave the good people of Floyd County out of your drama.
That's what Charlie Brown used to say to display his frustrations. I suppose it's a good thing Chuck never discovered the comment section of news articles, because I think he'd have to upgrade to profanity.
your logo was pink before you moved to broad st.
so you have every right to keep it. the dda. knew this before you moved to broad st. now they have a problem with it. know what if the dda. has a problem with the color, let the dda. come down and paint it the color purple, same as that major eye sore they call the recycling center, and the color solid waste dept. painted their
recycling truck's.i mean that's about as ugly as ugly can get. voter now i understand why your so
pompas, in germany the only voice that count's is the one in power.
Seemed the city was proud of it's occupancy rate, which has to be dwindling by at least 10 percent of what it was a decade ago.
The Pink color is part of Paula's logo. The city should not be allowed to dictate the color of a business' logo. It's not like she painted the whole building pink.
Paula has built up her busniess from nothing, and has continued to grow unlike many of the other Broad Street start ups that fail within a year. Kudos to Paula for perservering.
As far as Voter goes, my daughters shop there. If you are insulting my beautiful and intelligent daughters, I might have to ask you to step outside. Quit being rude and obnoxious.
Yes, we all make mistakes - I have to be especially careful because English is my second language. We could converse in MY native language, German, how far do you think you would get in that?
You are probably in class now, even though you want to appear to be a big girl, calling me "base" blew your cover, but I think you learned something which indicates that you are teachable and there is hope for you.
I do think you handle language fairly well for a product of Model. Just guessing! You do need to develop a sense of humor otherwise you might blow a gasket. (Like right now!)
How many versions of your screen name are you using? or do you have a little help posting here Annabelle?
Do you see anything wrong with the English in that post voter. You should never start a sentence with a conjunction but if you must, it should at least be capitilized.
I was reading another topic and saw that you had something to say about someone elses English. I guess you are the grammar police on this forum. Is that a tactic that you think you can use as an argument stopper when you don't know what else to say. Do you think it will work because everyone here is too stupid to know better and to know that your English is not very good either.
Were typing on a forum on the internet. It's like conversation. Everyone makes English, grammar, and spelling mistakes, even you.
And since you want to jump in and comment on something when you don't know the rest of the conversation, maybe you should proofread your own posts before commenting on mine. Proofreading is one word.
You might want to start by proof reading and correcting your own posts first.
As for the meaning of disingenuous, just remember, you are the one that can't spell it. I just copied and pasted from your post.
Now, unless you want me proofreading all of your posts from now on, I suggest you leave this one alone.
We may disagree on this forum Voter, but I am not going to continue to argue with you. You seem to be delusional. You also seem to be spoiled and think that everyone likes you but they probably just tolerate you.
I can't let you join my fan club, we can't have any blogging members. That would just create one big love fest and where is the fun in that? They call me and tell me what they liked and what made them laugh. They like for me to have formidable sparring partners. They liked Montezuma a lot but he has sort of withdrawn.
I know I will hear from my writer friend about my definition of a Southern Gentleman below. He knew the Southern Gentleman I was married to and he will have a good laugh.
Anyway, good to have you back.
Grow up, honey, you have a lot to learn.
How do we join your fan club? I want to be the first member that's not imaginary.
slyly deceptive or misleading, typically by means of a pretense of ignorance or unawareness".
They are a way of conducting ourselves in polite company so that we can be around other nice human beings without making them ill.
And anyone that would have told you that joke was either a transplant or a self hating southerner that felt like he had to fit in with your vulgar company somehow. I CAN believe that he was a senator.
(A Georgia State Senator from Columbus told me that joke many years ago)