Thursday, December 01, 2016

Caddies installs new sign in Bethesda (Photos)

Caddies on Cordell, one of the most popular sports bars in downtown Bethesda (and one of the few remaining after the disastrous failure of Montgomery County Councilmember Hans Riemer's "nighttime economy" initiative), has installed a new, lighted sign out front at 4922 Cordell Avenue. The bar recently came under new ownership, Ronnie Heckman of the neighboring Heckman's Delicatessen.


47 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why have three crappy photos - far away, odd angles, and blurry - instead of one close shot, head on?

Anonymous said...

What other sports bars have closed since Riemer's term began in 2011?

Robert Dyer said...

6:07: Shut up, idiot.

6:16: We've been over this a 1000 times. Parker's was the most recent, as I recall, and 9 bars (not just sports bars) closed altogether since Riemer's term began.

"If every letter must receive a response, send 30,000 letters." - Saul Alinsky

Anonymous said...

You'd prefer that Bethesda didn't have a Williams-Sonoma?

Anonymous said...

Parker's closed because Federal Realty would not renew their lease not because they wanted to. How many bars have opened?

Robert Dyer said...

6:27: Wrong. Landlords don't usually show highly-profitable businesses the door. If this was a boomtown for bars, they would have opened in another location if what you claimed was true.

Anonymous said...

"not just sports bars"

But your previous comment specifically said "sports bars".

How many?

Robert Dyer said...

6:39: Grow up, Saul Alinsky.

Anonymous said...

I can't even make out the words on the sign below "Caddies", all three photos are badly blurred. I assume that it says "On Cordell" or possibly sports bar" but it could just as easily be " massage parlor". What kind of crappy camera did you use, Dyer?

Robert Dyer said...

7:08: That's because there are no words under "Caddies."

Anonymous said...

@Dyer 6:36

"Landlords don't usually show highly-profitable businesses the door."

Yes. They actually do. There are a long, long list of reasons why this happens, including: redevelopment, property repositioning, poor tenant-landlord relations, opportunity to attract more tenants at a potentially higher rent, tenant reputation, securing a tenant that will drive up foot traffic and patronage of neighboring businesses, etc...

Once you again you show how ignorant and obtuse you are, on top of being a Trump-loving, bold-face liar.

Elm said...

Only Dyer's not so anonymous hater will spend an entire morning debating the angles of a photo of a lit sign.

Robert Dyer said...

I realize our resident troll is frustrated and embarrassed at his publication's failure to break all the stories broken on this site. Think how the angel investors must feel! They want their money back.

Anonymous said...

"Landlords don't usually show highly-profitable businesses the door."

Hey, 7:26AM ! Notice the words "don't usually."

Seems you're the ignorant one. Ooops on you.

Anonymous said...

Hey Bobby D! Hewwwwwwwwww Yewwwwwwwwwwwwww ya birdbrain dipstick? I was oba dere da oda week and saw da sign too! Yeet!

Anonymous said...

The site that gets 20 times as much traffic as yours hasn't published a blurry picture of a new sign?

Moribund, that's what they are!

Anonymous said...

20 times as much traffic as here? Let's see the details.

Robert Dyer said...

Both they and the guy from Arlington have a bad habit of inflating their stats bigtime.

Anonymous said...

Nothing like a good unsubstantiated claim.

Anonymous said...

The next new sign here will say, "Out of Business". Just don't screw up Mia's too please.
At least the Heckman's are protecting this entire block from a bulldozer. I'll give them that.

Anonymous said...

Maybe the new owner will let colored folks in.

Anonymous said...

The Arlington blogger kind of went nuts recently with his obsession over his "exclusive" phantom dog pooper story. A lot of folks in local media shaking their head on that one.

Word is that he lost it after BethesdaNOW crashed and burned. Never the same since. He's peeing in bottles and not living his Roslyn condo.

Anonymous said...

@1014 - looks like they still won't let Dyer in, or even close enough to take a decent picture. Thank God they are catching onto the movement!

#MakeBethesdaSafeAgain

Anonymous said...

Smart move by Heckman. I bet Caddie's makes 10x the revenue of his deli. Every time I go there, there are only 2-3 other customers at most.

What Dyer left out is who the landlord of both properties is, but I believe he's not allowed to mention them.

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Anonymous said...

Total visits:

Bethesda Magazine - 263,268 - 21.3 times Dyer

Arlington Now - 455,967 - 36.8 times Dyer

Dyer - 12,383

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Anonymous said...

Per Urban Dictionary:
heisman
Noun: A rejection given to a member of the opposite sex, a job, or anything no longer wanted.

When his girlfriend started getting serious, he gave her the Heisman.

So then, we agree #BethesdaMagazineforHeisman

Anonymous said...

12:07 PM = guy posting fictional stats again (who uses "visits" as a meaningful metric)? There's certainly not a half million people reading phantom dog pooper stories in ARLington. #fakenews

12:14 PM: what are you babbling about?

Robert Dyer said...

12:07: Totally fake stats, my friend.

Andrea said...

Visits is a pretty poor metric for web traffic.

That being said, Dyer supporters are the ones that were frequently touting "3rd party analytics" without providing a source. Now that a source is brought up that swings the other way, suddenly third party metrics are "totally fake".

You see the problem here, Dyer and Friends.

Anonymous said...

Why can't Dyer, signed or unsigned, produce any of his own statistics?

Anonymous said...

1:27 PM & 1:30 PM: Can you please go back to your job shining the councilman's shoes and leave the MoCo news reporting to Mr. Dyer?

Thanks.

Anonymous said...

Dyer can you allow comments again on the Greenhill developments? Why is lot 667 design constantly changing? You wont let us ask there so I ask here.

Anonymous said...

With all of the local blogs Robert Dyer has inspired folks to create over the past few years, he's probably created more jobs than the Council :)

Amazing that he receives no credit in the legacy media- no Thom Heath write up in the Post, no glossy puff piece in Washingtonian or Bethesda Magazine. He started something special with a blog covering Bethesda like no one else and has continued improving it through the years.

Give credit where credit is due, it's not that hard to say something nice occasionally rather than spit in anger every day anonymously here.

Anonymous said...

In related development news, there are some signs up in front of L'Academie de Cuisine about a proposal for the Claiborne development. Any word on that? Will that mean L'Academie has to vacate? It's on the Wilson Lane side of their building.

Anonymous said...

2:35 PM Claiborne development is just taking vertical development rights away from that site. Basically the can't redevelopment higher and the Claiborne takes those credits to go higher.

Anonymous said...

@ 7:08 AM - I just went by by Caddie's earlier tonight. What you're seeing is actually a reflection of the sign, on the awning immediately below it. That reflection is actually much dimmer than it appears in Dyer's photo.

Crappy camera, crappy filters, crappy photographer.

Anonymous said...

@ 2:56 PM - "Transfer Density".

Anonymous said...

Yep, the Frederick based freelancers of The Sentinel, Patch, etc. would have taken a much sharp photo.

Anonymous said...

Plus: better offer from larger and/or more credit-worthy potential tenant; offer from potential tenant willing to pay higher rent/require fewer financial concessions or lower tenant improvements; offer from existing tenant who needs/wishes to expand; offer from new tenant who desires to lease more space... and so on.

FWIW, landlords don't typically concern themselves with a tenant's profitability unless there is a credit risk/default risk concern, or unless (for retail properties) percentage rent (that is, rent paid on the basis of tenant's revenue or cash flow) is a significant aspect of financial success.

Robert needs to learn more about leasing commercial space, but no need to defame him. He's learning. And he's a lot smarter than Hans Riemer...

Anonymous said...

The real question is, when is Bethesda Chocolates going to open. I think the local media is missing the biggest mystery.

Anonymous said...

What's the story on Greenhill's former homeless shelter on Cordell? It looks like they actually did about 2 hours of construction work inside recently.

Anonymous said...

That font though....

Anonymous said...

@6:49 I guess Comic Sans wasn't available.

Anonymous said...

@ 6:22am and @ 6:35am Dyer will claim his blog post using pictures from the exterior of these buildings and a 30 word "article" with the same questions you just asked as breaking a story.

Anonymous said...

11:34 AM Mr. Dyer's original content vs. you re-typing/scraping Washington Post articles

Anonymous said...

11:34AM - and two weeks later it'll be on BB/BM