Mayor Frank Jackson announced yesterday that the city will be offering grants to downtown businesses that suffered property damage during the Cleveland George Floyd protest two weeks ago.
Storefronts from Public Square to Playhouse Square and parts north and south have been boarded up since then, with some businesses reopening despite the plywood exteriors and others waiting for repairs to be made before welcoming customers. Many operators, while voicing support for the movement and cause, lamented the damage and interruption coming on the heels of pandemic-related shutdowns that already had them reeling.
While most insurances policies will cover the damage, the city is chipping in to assist with repair, equipment and inventory.
“The property owners do have insurance, but they probably have deductibles,” Jackson said during a press call. “What we’re trying to do is help them with their out of pocket expenses.”
Applications are expected to be available next week from the city’s Department of Economic Development for qualified businesses seeking grant money up to $5,000 for those that suffered up to $20,000 in damage and up to $25,000 for those that suffered more than $20,000 in damage.
This article appears in Jun 10-16, 2020.
So the next time you jackholes that rioted ask where is the money for schools, road repair,family services, rec centers etc…
Now you know.
Not to worry, Taxin Jackson will simply force another 50% income tax increase on us workers that actually have to work for a living in this corruption-filled, crime-ridden, dump of a city!!!
And if that’s not enough, thief Budish will have his hand out yet again for another ma$$ive property tax hike on us property owners to make up any difference!!!
All the more reason to recall both of these crooks out of office now!!!
Scene doesn’t need it. Don’t forget, they cleared out their offices before the “peaceful protests” they promoted so it wouldn’t get looted. Also since scene staffers and their antifa friends were involved in the rioting, the scene window glass was also suspiciously untouched.
Pretty soon the moratorium on Rent, Electricity and Water will be lifted and Scene’s die hard antifa readership will be up shit creek, actually they’ll be living besides a creek full of shit.
That makes me giddy.
This seems fair to me.
After all, the City of Cleveland failed to protect Downtown Cleveland businesses from violent protesters, so it should help Downtown Cleveland businesses that were harmed.
Hoo boy, just wait until Leila Atassi finds out about this. She is going to be hysterical!
Attach the wages of those who did all of the damage. Even if it is a life time garnishment. Don’t be shy – make them pay. Of course after they have spent lots of jail time.
LibGoof “defund the police squawk squawk squawk defund the police squawk squawk squawk”
MORONS.
Is the city going to give a grant to the Ontario Cafe so they can reopen somewhere downtown? Dan Gilbert shut them down last year because he couldn’t stand to see so many black folks on Ontario Street, across from the Casino. Ari Maron did the same thing with East Fourth and Prospect a few years back.
Hey, what if downtown getting burned out was actually a protest against black folks being pushed out of downtown, block by block, street by street? Let’s face it, Colossal Cupcakes was about the whitest business in a totally whitened area. Could the whole thing have been avoided if they would have just left the Peterson Nut Company on the corner of Euclid and Ontario? I still remember when the whole square used to smell like roasted nuts when you got off the rapid. That instantly put everyone in a good mood. I mean, should we bust windows or just buy a bag of hot nuts? The answer is obvious.
Society Lounge is the last place that deserves assistance. Joseph Fredrickson is widely known to use his position of power to actively participate in sexual misconduct with staff and customers alike.
Society Lounge has a long standing history, since those doors opened really, of unlawful and unacceptable behavior.
Joseph Fredrickson is widely known to use his position of power to not only condone but participate in sexual misconduct with staff and customers alike.
Sherwin Williams working on a 180 to move out of the city. I don’t blame them one bit……
Good riddance to Sherwin Williams. Their lead paint is still poisoning Glenville babies. Any what do you think caught fire in the Cuyahoga back in the day, the water, or the Sherwin-Williams paint runoff that was 4 inches thick on top of the water?
Hey Walt, you & your Commie Pinko Teachers Union, coupled with the crooked Democrats, that you nest with, have done more damage to the brains of poor Eastside children than a lead paint buffet.
You’re a Socialst, a Socialist Piece of Shit….what you rotten self loathing fucks do to children should be considered treason.
Bitter, Angry Coward you are.
I’m sorry, but I’m confused. Is “Charter Schools Destroy People Like Walt” your first name, or your last name? Why are you hiding who you are? In fact, why are all of you hiding who you are? Where are all those gun-toting, white protesters we saw out on the streets a few weeks ago? Surely you all aren’t still scared of a bunch of unarmed black teenagers even after you bought an AR-15 and 500 rounds of jacketed 5.56mm ammunition, are you?
You gotta respect those British Nazis, though. At least they had the courage to protest on Trafalgar Square yesterday, instead of cowering in Mom’s basement.
Walt you’re a fucking Commie. One of the first targets of the Minneapolis Riots was Charter Schools. Why was that? Because none of this organic.
Covid was the stunner, and “police brutality” & racism are the KO blows. The Democrats have teamed with Big Tech & China to destroy our country.
Despicable Human Beings like yourself, enabled by Teachers Unions have hijacked the Public Schools and seized the opportunity to posion the minds of the youth with your Social Engineering
We don’t use our names because we travel and live amongst you. All that matters is we see you and your intentions. Tell your thugs to bring it to our front doors, we’ll see who the cowards are.
MAGA & God Bless America
So let me get this straight. You don’t use your name because you travel and live amongst us. You do this because you are what? Watching us? Wow, are you that creepy guy in the corner of the Cleveland Clinic Main Campus Cafeteria? The one with all the fruit cups and the tinfoil on his head?
And we will know who the real cowards are only when we bring it to your front door? So as I understand it, the bravest of the brave will be locked inside their houses while the cowards are all outside, getting ice cream and having a good time?
I think maybe somebody’s Mom needs to make him some hot cocoa.
Anything the Right says to defend their position is immediately determined to be a threat.
When the Left riots, loots and destroys it’s a “mostly peaceful protest.”
The semantics games are over, every minute that we spend trying to reason with you is another moment we lose. You people use the desire of Moderates to argue of logic instead of using violence.
I personally know that there is no dissuading you folks, you’re on a mission to destroy the West/ Capitalism and the only way this ends is in a fight.
Your words mean nothing, I’m just here to warn and educate people about what the next 6 months + will look like.
The disturbance to Downtown Businesses was an “Force majeure” fu#ck them……..
The George Floyd Insurrection was a Act of God !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
White business owners are The Corporate Welfare Queens!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Financial aid and other subsidy, Tax loopholes, Farm Subsidies ect
“The disturbance to Downtown Businesses was an “Force majeure” fu#ck them…….”
And it’s over. The businesses are getting YOUR tax dollars.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.
Blacks killing other blacks at the rate of 1 every three days in Cleveland ALONE.
Hey Buddy, are you OK? What I want you to do is sit down and take a few deep, cleansing breaths. Then, with deep, regular breathing, focus on your toes. Imagine your toes completely and totally relaxed. After a few minutes, move that thought up your body to your calves. Keep doing that until you get to the top of your head.
Don’t worry, everything will pass in a few minutes.
Don’t worry about me Walt. I’ve been awaiting this horseshit for years. Unlike the others, I don’t blindly take up other people’s causes.
What I do, do is catalog and spread the word about who the true enemies are and why.
I like how all the leftists and democrats are admitting to being racist and using the system to enforce their racist policies. Democrat politicians and influencers at all levels are apologizing for their part in creating a racist society. Even all the large corporations are apologizing too. At least we know now that it was these democrats who are responsible for all the systemic racism they keep vsguely pointing out.