AggroPa to Local Business Owner: “You’re doing it right”
by Andrew Dalton on September 11, 2009
In their recent coverage of the upcoming Divisadero renovations, the Examiner interviewed the Michael Richardson – owner of Lilly’s Bar-Be-Que #2 Lilly’s #1 Da’ Pitt BBQ at Divis and Grove. Bi-annual re-namings of his BBQ joint aside, this is a guy who serves up brisket and whitebread next door to a cannabis club, so I’m pretty sure he knows how to run a successful business. But what does he have to say about the renovations?
“I think it’s a great idea,” he said. “The neighborhood is already changing and all, you can see that. But [my restaurant] has a parking lot, so it’s a little bit easier for us [to survive construction] than other businesses.”
If anything, one would imagine a PacHeights-ification of the Divis corridor would bring on the NIMBY’s who might try to poo-poo such…shall we say, “authentic” businesses in the neighborhood. (After all, we’ve already got B’s BBQ up the street and they hang artwork!) But if we’ve got Richardson’s blessing, then bring on the whitebread.
[image via: the Examiner]
[...] If you’ve been wondering why Divis has smelled slightly less like delicious barbecue for the past month, EaterSF has your answer. It seems B’s BBQ won’t be coming back from their “temporary hiatus” that started earlier this month. Instead it looks like their selling the whole deal. I guess not even having a clean bathroom can help you compete with a BBQ joint next door to a Cannabis Club. [...]