Meandering #7

It is a stretch to think of the Coronet Apartments in their current
incarnation as "paradise", but for folks back in the day, they lived large
in the Coronet Apartments. But that was then. Never mind the 7 families
that will have pick up and go, America is about moving on up (to the west
side), when we aren't too busy staying the course.

Sonic Drive-Thru will mean tax money to fund affordable housing elsewhere
in the city for the low wages that can be earned at such places or more TIF
to knock down some other older buildings that no one is interested in
preserving. As long as the University keeps growing, the city will always
have something for that eventual rainy day.

As people are literally chewing the fat over at the Sonic to relive their
youth or trying to find it under the widening girth of their midsections,
neighbors on the other side of the fence will be putting up their for sale
signs and looking for greener pastures and Acme Realty and Electric Co.
rejoices!

In any case, we can be sure that the Sonic will likely last less half the
time that the Coronet Apartments did and will likely be torn down to put in
some nice high rise retirement apartment/casino/ and mortuary complex for all the
people who want to live near the Iowa City International Airport.

Yes, when Highway 6 becomes the Retirement Corridor, connecting the Amanas
to Muscatine, we will have more economic development than we can shake a
stick at.  With the shiny E85 stations and the roadside iPod recharging
stands,  Granny daycare centers, and Greater Johnson County Indoor Zoo
(formally known as EarthPark II), Iowa City will finally be the Mall of
America we all knew it could be.

And who knows, maybe once the pesky neighbors clear out, there will be
enough room to put up that combination City Hall and Super Wal-Mart.