Comments on: Back from the Brink

By: Seth

Seth — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:40:31 +0000

maybe you are.
i think what i’ve said is pretty straightforward.

By: Christa

Christa — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:14:32 +0000

Well said John.
And Seth, maybe I’m missing something here, but you aren’t making a lot of sense.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:43:03 +0000

i was joking. i obviously don’t know him at all.

By: John

John — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:26:56 +0000

Let’s not be naive – Barry does what he does for money. Big deal. Painting him with the ‘benevolent conservator’ brush is silly. He is a businessman.

His efforts downtown have provided a HUGE benefit to the city. Whether that was intended or not is irrelevant. It’s easy to sit on the sidelines and critique – as people will find things to complain about regardless. It is much more difficult (and takes exponentially more balls) to actually DO something.

If people want to bitch about businessmen that are put on a pedestal by the community, but who have actually done jack squat, there are much better targets out there – trust me.

By: Seth

Seth — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:04:11 +0000

and christa,
at the risk of stating the obvious,
you don’t fix up the house.

By: seth

seth — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:19:07 +0000

dolla dolla bill ya’ll

By: Scott P. Rogers

Scott P. Rogers — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:45:54 +0000

Seth — my apologies, I mis-read your comment to be asserting that the apartments above the Blue Nile had been “slummed out to students”.

By: David Miller

David Miller — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:57:39 +0000

Seth, I believe that understand your intentions. My perspective is that Mr. Kelley did downtown a great service by remodeling/rehabilitating this building. I don’t really pay attention to much outside of Downtown.

By: Christa

Christa — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:56:59 +0000

Bryan, hope you are joking about Barry Kelley being a chump. You obviously don’t know him at all. He bent over backwards to give me advice when I was renovating my building and hooked me up with a great accountant in Roanoke and a super law firm in Richmond that handles historic tax credits. He had nothing to gain by it at all…he’s just a great guy. And Seth, I wouldn’t be caught dead renting to college students. He’s got more guts than I do. Why fix a house up when the students are just going to destroy it again? Just my opinion. He’s a great guy.