But wait.
Now EVG reader Chris F., who sent us the above photo, got a look at the apparent new tenant taking over the space... A Cold Stone Creamery...
And the Cold Stone(d) website confirms the arrival... Let's welcome store No. 23064!
But wait again. OK, OK... word is this will be a Cold Stone-Tim Hortons combo... like the ones on West 42nd Street and West 72nd Street... The two companies started co-branding stores in the United States and Canada back in 2009.
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Huh, and I thought Cold Stone was closing stores lately. Haven't seen too many of them in the past couple years...
The owners should be able to outfit the store very cheaply- ebay is full of coldstone-branded ice cream equipment for sale by owners of failed franchises.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/39911155
That report is very depressing.
I guess they are going for the double-vomit effect.
No where's that ban on chains in the hood???
been mourning the loss of the only cold stone outside of 9th ave/times square ever since the one in Astor Place became that nondescript "financier" coffee place..
would go to big gay ice cream shop more frequently but the line
Yet more diabetes-inducing trash to attract the asshole 'woo'crowd.
I'm not anti-franchise at all but Coldstone is definitely not the right fit for that space. Not to mention that location seems to be cursed.
Tim Horton's has gotten into a few PR scrapes by being anti-gay. I would never patronize them.
http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/tim-hortons-saga-of-anti-gay-non-apology-for-threatening-lesbian-couple-2/discrimination/2011/10/24/29162
I don't think this Coldstone will make it. The company is closing a lot of stores because their franchises are not profitable. If that’s not enough, the owner of Coldstone (Kahala) has been repeatedly accused of taking kickbacks.
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