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Kate 21:48 on 2021-11-24 Permalink Reply  

• MarcG 08:57 on 2021-11-25 Permalink

  Despite his bitching and moaning about parking over the years, the man is very funny.

• Joey 11:16 on 2021-11-25 Permalink

  Reading this (very long) story reminded me of Joe Beef’s contributions to the local community over the year – kicking out Lily and Oli (with Shiller Lavy?) to make room for another high-priced restaurant and getting a baseball field shut down. Too bad Brownstein only had 1,400 words for his exaltation.

• Ian 11:35 on 2021-11-25 Permalink

  Still an eye-opening read: http://headspacepress.com/joe-beef-and-the-unfortunate-appeal-of-ignorance/

  an excerpt:

  “Now this is where I will, for the sake of clarity, remain vague. David McMillan, Frederic Morin, Dany Lavy, The Schiller Group, all seem to be shareholders in some way or another. McMillan and Morin run the restaurants; Lavy and Schiller are investors and real estate people. Who owns how much of what? Who makes the decisions on the next move? Who gave the final word to kick Lili&Oli out?

  I don’t know. I contacted Mr. McMillan and offered him a chance to comment, but he declined. And so to avoid any misrepresentation and because I don’t really give a shit about their inner workings, McMillan, Morin, Lavy, Schiller, Liverpool House, Le Vin Papillon et al – will thus forth be known as Joe Beef. If anyone wishes to correct or clarify, they know where to find me.

  And anyway, the details aren’t important. I don’t care who said what when. I don’t even care about how badly things were handled, about changing the locks on the café, or moving straight to aggressive legal action and forcing the Hébert brothers (Pat & Dan) to borrow thousands of dollars for lawyer fees – all without first trying to sit down and work things out with your neighbor.

  Keep your dates and claims of written notice; those are handy little blankets to help you sleep.

  Because it doesn’t matter how Joe Beef executed this asshole move, the point is the move itself, and that they did it even though they didn’t have to.”

• walkerp 11:51 on 2021-11-25 Permalink

  Yeah, despite the guy’s sort of sympathetic “I recognize that I became an asshole due to burnout” he actually seems to truly be an asshole with or without burnout.

• walkerp 11:52 on 2021-11-25 Permalink

  Let’s not forget forcing the reversion of the pedestrianization of Wellington so his rich clients would have a place to park.

• carswell 11:52 on 2021-11-25 Permalink

  People in the business who know the whole story tell me the Gazette article is a “whitewashed” account (quoting one of them) of what prompted DM’s exit. Haven’t asked for details but, given the article’s author, not surprising if true.

• MarcG 11:54 on 2021-11-25 Permalink

  walkerp: That was Notre-Dame, not Wellington.

• Ian 12:00 on 2021-11-25 Permalink

  To be fair all the delivery drivers along that strip were making a big stink too, the guys at Nouveau Système were justifiably flipping right out. I mean yeah I get it, pedestrianized streets are awesome and besides bus service issues it worked great on Mont-Royal, but the N-D business owners say they weren’t consulted.

  To a hammer everything looks like a nail, and PM’s tendency to barrel through without consultations or studies have caused issues in other areas, too. Let’s not forget the baseball field, the double repaving of Clarke, the dangerous bike paths in PSC, etc.