As much as I despise the white flight that led to the ensuing “Golden Ghetto” greatness of Johnson County, I have to give them credit for keeping an empty blighted building away from the most visible part of their enclave.
Contrastingly, ad mogul
Tony: The Impending West Edge Implosion
Steven
where is that (supposed to be)?
Bella1
I used to live in those brick apartments right across from JJ’s. Those were the days… Is it arrogant to build a shrine for yourself? The Bob Shrine. Imploding. Love it! Bernstein should be ashamed of himself for what he’s done to that neighborhood. If you know Bob, (and I do) he probably doesn’t ever give this mess another thought.
Ross
3-to-1 odds his “local expert” source has a last name that rhymes with “Tazer”.
DeuceandaQuarter
This has nothing to do with the economy. Bob is still purchasing Andy Warhol original paintings and rolling like he always has. This is about making constant changes to designs and then refusing to pay for those changes. If anyone should understand the implication of client changes on a project it should be Bob. His business has dealt with this and the effect on final project costs for a long time. This is about incompetence and mismanagement. The deep pockets of Wal-Mart are not covering up these messes anymore.
Frances
Fine them to the fullest extent! And what an inconvenience it was to have that left lane blocked off for 1+ year, affecting the morning traffic, just so they could end up not ever completing the project.
Bob Loblaw
“Contrastingly, ad mogul Bob Bernstein
Bella1
I agree with DeuceandQuarter – this has NOTHING to do with the economy. This is just Bob being the pompous, egocentric guy he’s always been.
bschloz
The economy is exactly the reason that the project has stalled…also see 135th and Metcalf. The numbers are still in LALA Land and the banks will extend and pretend until they can’t. All that so called cash on the sidelines is vulture money.
jojo
more jealousy by losers…real losers.
Bob Bernstein built a huge company/ad agency
with sweat and hard work. He took a small town
merchant and made hm the largest retailer ever
in the world. He invented some of marketing’s
greatest ideas. And you fucking lsoers sit there
are complain and bitch about this marketing
genius.
Say what you will about his business prowess..the
guys a genius. I knew those buildings …they
were shit holes. they were nasty shit boxes ..and
eventaully someone wiould ter them down.
So the man steps up to take a area that was
really falling apart and uses his own resources
to make it new gbain. Okay..things didnt work
out…but bobs a visionary…a dreamer…a
risk taker…while the resto f you phony fucking
losers sit on your ass doing nothing with your
life.
Good for bob…he roled the dice…and when
he cashed in on his bucks in vegas hwe dreamt
and built something that was to be breathtaking.
Dunn and the other guys were used to working with
government funds…lying about the set asidesfor
minority contractors.
Bob may have come up short on his dream of this
beautiful building…but he has not come up short
oin any aspect of his life….bravo bob.
And for you negative assholes who made upshit
on this story…get back to your cubicles..
you will never accomploish half the things this
man has done…financially/philanthropically or
personally.
You’re all a bunch of whiney fucking losers
bobv
JoJo, you are just as wrong as Tony most of the time. The positions are reversed. Nothing makes sense today.
Bella1
jojo – you’re cracking me up. A genius? Bob had very little to do with inventing some of marketing’s greatest ideas. Or with BR’s clients. He stayed in his office most days with the doors closed. If he did meet with a client, he was usually asleep after about twenty minutes. I have done something with my life. Maybe I should thank Bob for that. He made me understand what I didn’t want or the kind of person I didn’t want to be. And you should calm down, take your cranky pants off – you’re gonna have a stroke.
jojo
bella…you live in high style..in thos shit
box apartments across from JJ’s…you really must
have moved up in the world if you found those
“nice”….great for college aged kids but for
such an accomplished “business” person like
yourself.
Oh…and I detect some jealousy and some
lies in your post. But most importantly I detect
you are another jealous loser who sits at home
wondering where life went. Can tell from your
writings that you were either fired or laid
off from b.r. at some time and have a huge
grudge to hold. But what you don’t know is a
damn thing about what you’re talking about.
Bob did some great things. Built an incredible
operation starting from scratch. Was given credit by Sam Walton for the incredible success
of wal mart (nothing big…just handled the
advertising and was part of the incredible
growth of the largest retailer EVER).
Oh..heard of MCDonalds? Yeah Bella…the largest
food chain in the world? Bobdeveloped some
“small” makreting ideas there. Like the “Happy Meal”….Bob did that…Sippy Straw…
come on bella…give credit there…2 incredible
marketing ideas.
Heard of Blockbuster…that one time small chain
of video stores…Bernstein made they mhuge.
Of course time everntually caught up with the
video rental market and they’ve had problems…
oh…beauty brands? Huge success…heard
of them bella.
Yea bella we all can’t be losers like you sitting
on the couch moaning about others success…
some people do things…create…innovate while
lowly people like yourself sit and try to
tear down successful people.
Bernstein rein like all companies may have had
their rise and fall but bobdid one incredible
job…and had great people helping him on the
way…isn’t that what companies do.
And yes…the prjoect he wanted to accomplish
didn’t work out but thats what happens to
risk takers…sometimes things don’t happen the
way you want them to…and problems occur.
But no risk…no reward.
You are pitiful bella. You are a little
person trying to belittle those who have done
great things. Maybe you should do something
with your life…and not try to tear down
other people.
BELLA…YOU ARE A LOSER!
Really?
Some of the points made sound as if someone works directly for Bob and is getting paid to write these posts. I find that interesting. If Bob were such a great genius, he would hire someone with a little bit better grammar and spelling skills. There is nothing more frustrating than to read the ranting of someone that cannot spell and put a decent sentence together. I like the banter but please make it readable. Also, dropping the “f-bomb” every other word doesn’t really add to the credibility.
As for the whole “what happened” situation, I’m sure those of us that are actually professionals in the design/construction world really know what happened and will chalk it up to a lessons learned. Thank goodness they were someone else’s lessons from which we can learn.