Businessman Swaggart rises to reinvention challenge.Byline: RETAIL NOTEBOOK By Joe Mosley The Register-Guard SPRINGFIELD - Les Swaggart is making the best of having an 800-pound gorilla gorilla, an ape, Gorilla gorilla, native to the lowland and mountain forests of western and central equatorial Africa. It is the largest of the apes, the males reaching a height of 5 to 6 ft (150–190 cm) with a 9-ft (144–cm) arm spread. as a neighbor. He lost about two-thirds of his property on South A Street when Lane Transit District A transit district or transit authority is a special-purpose district organized as either a corporation chartered by statute, or a government agency, created for the purpose of providing public transportation within a specific region. sued for imminent domain last year, taking the land for use as the city's new LTD LTD 1 Laron-type dwarfism 2 Leukotriene D 3 Long-term depression, see there 4. Long-term disability station. Swaggart was compensated, but his holdings were fragmented. He had sold his primary business, Les' Service and Canopy Sales, in 1996. But new owner Richard Roser - who bought the business and not the property - moved the operation out of the way of the LTD project last year, settling on Franklin Boulevard in Glenwood. Roser took with him the $4,600 in monthly rent he had been paying for the South A Street property and buildings, and Swaggart was left with one acre of land and a former trailer hitch shop next-door to the bus station. "I was retired for six years there," says Swaggart, who owns the property with his wife, Desta. "It's kind of a shock to have to go back to work at age 70. "It's been a pretty traumatic situation for us, but I think with a little effort we'll get everything back on track." The Swaggarts already have remodeled the hitch shop and opened a new Bible and home schooling home schooling, the practice of teaching children in the home as an alternative to attending public or private elementary or high school. In most cases, one or both of the children's parents serve as the teachers. resource shop, Willamette Christian Resources. They are building a walk-up, drive-through outlet for a Dutch Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . Coffee outlet, which will be leased to Chris Stewart There have been several well-known people named Chris Stewart, including:
And Swaggart began foundation work this month for a 5,000-square-foot building that he hopes to lease to a soup-and-deli-type restaurant and another retail tenant or two. In all, he expects to spend close to $800,000 in upgrading his remaining property. "I won't have any money in the bank after that," Swaggart says. "But I think it will be a wonderful location, once we have it all done." New coffee outlet goes organic And there's another new coffee outlet in the works for both Springfield and Eugene. My Coffee Company, a new enterprise created by recent University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. graduate Travis Miller, will be opening at a total of three locations early next year - at 42nd and Main streets in Springfield, next-door to the Hampton Inn on West 11th Avenue in Eugene and at a Roseburg shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into . The Eugene location will be a sit-down coffee shop, while the Springfield location will be a 200-square-foot kiosk adjacent to a 2,500-square-foot office building currently being built by his mother, Taco Bell Taco Bell Corp., a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., is a Mexican-style quick service restaurant chain based in Irvine, California, United States. The restaurant has locations primarily in the United States and Canada, but also operates outlets in several other markets. franchisee Robin Miller. Miller will use the office space as headquarters for her company. Travis Miller says his My Coffee outlets will serve 100 percent organic coffees and baked goods, and the sit-down locations will offer free wireless Internet service to customers. Retail Notebook runs on Thursdays. Joe Mosley can be reached at 338-2384 or jmosley@guardnet.com. |
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