Trustee: Kolovani violated Chapter 11 terms

Angry Local Resident wrote:

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If we are talking about the same attorney, that attorney has brought real jobs to the city. Those businesses are responsible for the creation of hundreds of jobs. He did this without "borrowing" money from a city that is on the verge of being bankrupt. His low income first time home owners housing development on the east side is not an eyesore like the many city projects. He won't build the projected mini-mall on the north side until he has clients to fill it, unlike the cities in-town project which is nothing more than a bunch of fancy empty buildings. Right now, as far as Kolovani is concerned, I think it's a shame we don't tar and feather people like this anymore and ride them out of town on a rail!

Hear, hear...

To Angry Local Resident, you seriously have your head up your a$$. Said Attorney and i didn't mention any names is the biggest G@ddamn crook in Lebanon County maybe the history of the County. You don't believe me , just ask any old guy who has been around this town all their lives.

Actually I am an old guy who has been around this city my whole life. I was born here. I went to school here. I plan on living here, within the city limits for the rest of my life as well. Please provide me with information and facts that this individual is a crook or better yet, please provide the police with that information. Has he made a profit from his business ventures...absolutely but that hardly qualifies him as a crook. He's also lost a lot of money as well on some of his investments to help improve the city.

Well i'm also an old guy and it looks like you and i live on different sides of the railroad tracks. Now maybe you want to talk about a 40 year old murder, and something known as the E.I.T. bureau. After we talk about those things we can talk about an over 55 village in West Lebanon were the ground is not polluted.

To those of you who would condemn Bill for creating the most beautiful businesses/properties in Lebanon, I have one thing to say to you; get a life. Most of you sound like typical small-minded busy-bodies who want nothing more than to see others fail. Lebanon didn't deserve places as nice as Niko's, the new market and clothing store, and people like you are proving it. I support all three of them and would be saddened to see them close. Why don't you keep your negativism and grapes attitudes to yourselves.

ManAboutTown wrote:

To those of you who would condemn Bill for creating the most beautiful businesses/properties in Lebanon, I have one thing to say to you; get a life. Most of you sound like typical small-minded busy-bodies who want nothing more than to see others fail. Lebanon didn't deserve places as nice as Niko's, the new market and clothing store, and people like you are proving it. I support all three of them and would be saddened to see them close. Why don't you keep your negativism and grapes attitudes to yourselves.

Thanks Bill, but you really shouldn't refer to yourself in the third person.

Angry Local Resident wrote:

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If we are talking about the same attorney, that attorney has brought real jobs to the city. Those businesses are responsible for the creation of hundreds of jobs. He did this without "borrowing" money from a city that is on the verge of being bankrupt. His low income first time home owners housing development on the east side is not an eyesore like the many city projects. He won't build the projected mini-mall on the north side until he has clients to fill it, unlike the cities in-town project which is nothing more than a bunch of fancy empty buildings. Right now, as far as Kolovani is concerned, I think it's a shame we don't tar and feather people like this anymore and ride them out of town on a rail!

Yeah! Let's beat the crap out of anyone who tries to do something positive for Lebanon. We want more boarded up, beat up properties, not those beautiful ones he put together. The shame!

The Greenman wrote:

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Thanks Bill, but you really shouldn't refer to yourself in the third person.

Bill? Yeah right. I suppose you think everyone in this city hates his guts and should side with you. It sure seems that way. I don't think Bill would waste his time responding to you and the other small-minded people who are putting him down.

While I mentioned I support all his businesses, I am certainly not in agreement with everything he did. I think he overestimated how the local residents would respond to his clothing store and restaurant, and he bit off more than he could chew, right when the economy tanked. Even in good times most people around here would rather shop at Kohl's or TJ Max for their clothing and eat slop at Robert's for $5.00 a plate. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, but that's the norm in Lebanon. His store and restaurant are more fitting for Philadelphia.

Cedarman wrote:

Seriously i really think if he left go of the market and restaurant both those places could survive. The restaurant needs to go a little lower on it's prices but it really is a nice venue. If i had the funds i would take that restaurant in a minute and offer affordable dining
steaks,pasta, maybe call it the upper deck?

Have you actually eaten at his restaurant? His prices are comparable to most other good restaurants (Devon, The Trattoria, Tony's Mining Company). You don't have to spend a fortune to get a decent meal, although you can go all out if you feel like it. You make it sound so easy; lower the prices and everything is great. Well, it doesn't work that way when you have a high rent space and are trying to maintain a higher standard. We have far too many 'affordable' places to eat. If you ever venture to Harrisburg, Second Street has about 30 restaurants priced like Niko's, so why can't we have 2 or 3?

pa resident wrote:

I have no pitty for him after what he charges these vendors in the market there should be no reason on why he is going bankrupt all the time. If anyone would be loosing alot of $$ it would be the vendors from what they get charged each month. Its about time hes finally having one of his stores going out of business. What is he gonna have go out next?? They need someone else to take over the market after he moved from 9th street to 8th street hes been in a big hole and thats his own dumb fault!

So tell me something. Why are those vendors still at the market if, as you claim, he charges them too much? There's something call supply and demand, which you obviously don't understand. If he's charging too much they would leave and nobody else would take their place, but that's not happening. A few have failed, like the coffee shop that keeps changing hands and the frozen pizza place and others who keep trying to do what's already been done. You are the typical naysayer who should keep your venom in your mouth. Besides, you don't even know how to spell when this site has an automatic spell-checker!'Pitty, loosing and alot'? Give me a break!

MOST of US want to see this place SUCCEED.

However... WE... the typical citizen types... can NOT rescue a business from banks.

And..(in general).. we cannot rescue businesses of any type from the operators and owners, who do what they wish, for good or bad.
(This applies to every business, from the railroads to restaurants to car dealerships to eBay).

The fuel for the fire is when WE learn... later on... too late, apparently..... about the details.... which the newspaper puts out in inconsistent clumps.

and what MOST OF US do NOT want to see...

is more of the businesses that signal the downturn of a downtown, places such as:

- Nail Salons (where the clientele can not really afford the silliness they do to their fingernails).

- Tattoo Parlors (ditto tenfold to the skin)

-.. and nondescript Americanized "Chinese" food restaurants..(which are really just a bullshit immigration and relocation pipeline. How many of these workers have American education ?? And how many of them eat from the menu they serve ??)