Saturday, August 22, 2009

Local Blogger survives second bombing attempt

As many of you recall, last year an as of yet unidentified person planted an explosive device in the Mosteller Garage, in what was no doubt an attempt to ruin my day. Recently, after a relatively quite period, a second attempt was made, using nothing short of a JDAM, or Joint Direct Attack Munition, a GPS guided bomb dropped from the thousands of feet in the air by either a B-1A or B-52G bomber that was once again directed at the Mosteller garage where I park, but this time, with devastating effects....

Ok so that didn't exactly happen.
Still, my life has been somewhat disrupted because....god forbid....I have to walk a block, A BLOCK, to another garage in town. I mean I have it all timed out, if I can make it to the garage before the the courthouse clock tower rings 8 o'clock, I'll probably make it to work on time. If you want to watch the real time progress of the destruction of the garage on a webcam, click here!

When they closed the Mosteller garage, they didn't do anything to it for the first couple of weeks, thus for a short time it became the boro's largest indoor/outdoor skate park, with town's troubled teens running roughshod all over it. However it wasn't long before the concrete chomping machines came and began to wrought their distruction. The project is progressing along just fine, sure it would have been cool if they had imploded it, and let's hope the new garage goes up quickly, because it's really one of the only visible works going on in town, what when you consider they are supposed to be building a hotel behind the old Warner theater building, and those cool looking condos on Market Street next to Coyote Crossing. Then there's that proposed Zukin hotel on the old Rite Aid site across from the Post Office, we'll see if that ever get's off the ground.

Clearly the economy is going through a transition, and by extension so is West Chester, but hopefully things like the new garage will position the town for it's next incarnation. And I'll have front row seats for it....if people would stop trying to plant bombs in my way....

5 comments:

Mikey said...

Nice pic of you in downtown Baghdad.

Otownkayaker said...

troubled teens running roughshod all over it = You??

Tom said...

It's good to see you survived the terror. That looks like a cool renovation. Nothing revives the neighborhood like a new garage.

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That looks like a cool renovation. Nothing revives the neighborhood like a new garage.