C-Town liquors & deli has moved from 511 Washington Ave as the first tenants at 601 Washington Avenue. The new office complex, which had been unoccupied as a result of the recession, is located about 850 feet north of the original location of C-Town.
Now how about Thai restaurant next?
Liz Smith says
Thai … absolutely !!! Personally, I’d like to see it downtown .
Howard McCoy says
Uptown. Downtown. Yes, let’s have a Thai restaurant in Chestertown. PLEASE!!
Joe Lill says
Thai sounds great but probably wouldn’t have the needed support to stay open. The Thai Ki in Easton was great while it was open and it was a great place to go for lunches while working in that town but closed because of a lack of business.
Janice Dickson says
There’s a fine Thai restaurant in Dover on route 13 just south of Lockerman Street, just below the Jiffy Lube.
As said in the review: don’t be put off by the strip mall it’s in.
Clean, nothing fancy, good food, good prices.
Mary wood says
What’s wrong with eating Eastern Shore food on the Eastern Shore ?
Gerry Levin says
Love the diversity factor. Thai, Chinese, American, we’ll take what we can get ! ! Chestertown can certainly use something different.
Marge Fallaw says
It’s good to see that the building is finally beginning to be occupied (especially because the first occupant is a local business), but what is not good to see is all the huge, horrible beer/liquor signs covering the large windows. They detract from what would otherwise be a quite good-looking building and business front and, in fact, repel at least me from going there. Every time I drive by, my reaction is ugh, how ugly and jarring the business’ appearance is, hardly in keeping with the increasingly attractive general appearance of the town in areas outside the historic district. If such a sizable honky-tonk-type array conforms to the town’s signage ordinances, then I think the sign code needs revision and redefinition. If not, then it ought to be enforced. With a little creativity, the nature of the wares sold within could be conveyed to local passersby and visitors both clearly and more attractively.
Jeremy Caponi says
thank you for your comments , most of the sign up right now are temporary. Due to the layout of the building the back room and offices are Street side so we are trying to conceal storage areas. any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. All new land scaping should be
completed by the end of this week.
Keith Thompson says
Of course, it was the signs that alerted me to the fact that a business was now located in the property. Whatever happens with the changes to the sign ordinance, as a marketing tool for business; signs do work.
Randy Duyeene says
I have nothing against liquor stores, but why is it that the only businesses allowed to grown in Chestertown are Liquor stores? Maybe if Walmart had sold beer the town would have let them in.
Joe Diamond says
Randy,
Take a look. Not only are there too many liquor stores for the population, there are too many gas stations, garages, pizza places, bookstores, bars, …. the list goes on. What happens is someone is always trying to get a piece of a small and shrinking action. The reality of the market place thins out the least competitive; the ones with the marginal sites, the ones with poor parking or lighting. A new player arrives and another one will leave. Watch and learn.
Remember there was a time when Kent County sold the liquor at a county store………right there in the recently vacated Jim’s ….College Heights …………… C-Town liquor store.
Walmart was a different story. Had they prepositioned their own council members before making application they would be here now. Probably the only other commerce in town would be lawyers and antique stores…………visit Leesburg, VA. The sitting council had support in slowing the big W.
Joe
D amotte says
Oh God, are we still bemoaning the lack of WalMart? Really, can we be a bit circumspect with what this county is about?
Keith Thompson says
I think it’s less about the loss of the Wal-Mart as it is the failure to follow up that move with an alternative to keep shoppers in Chestertown. When Wal-Mart opened up the road, it helped create a regional retail center in Middletown that Chestertown residents now contribute to instead of contributing to Chestertown. Also don’t forget…the Rock Hall, Millington, Betterton and Galena residents who now contribute to Middletown’s economy, used to contribute to Chestertown’s economy.
d Lamotte says
That is what a good planning office and good zoning are for. Of course there will always be shoppers at WalMart. Perhaps this area can
be one of the few without the baggage that store brings….as I’ve said before, there are super stores everywhere. I would think those
who shop at the Middletown store had or still do shop at the Dover one, as well. Perhaps these people are happy to have a choice as well
as having the advantages of living in an area that is still rural. I regret that a WalMart and a rural community cannot be sustained.
Keith Thompson says
“That is what a good planning office and good zoning are for.”
Which is precisely my point…if you have good planning and zoning, you can have an effective economy in a rural setting. What in the glut of vacant commercial properties indicates effective planning and zoning?
Joe Lill says
It would seem that part of the reason shoppers in northern Kent County travel to Middletown to shop is purely geographical. It’s just a shorter ride to there go than to come to Chestertown.
Joe Diamond says
Joe,
Likewise when Piney Neck goes downtown the end up in Rock Hall.
Joe