Here Comes the Mega BBQ Joint!

We passed this sign last weekend on Union between 3rd and 4th Ave.  A big sign for a big restaurant.  This seems like the last step in opening when places start the hiring process, although the hiring is at a portable office near the site (a few buildings down) and not actually at the site so we guess renovations are still in progress.  They were supposed to open in March but damages from Hurricane Sandy, the loss of their roof for a start, have changed those plans.  There have been so many BBQ spots opening in the area over the last year or so and you can add this chain to the list soon.

Calexico coming.....soon?

It has to be about 7 months now that Calexico has been gutting the old Schnack on Union Street between Hicks and Columbia. What is going on in there? They finally have a sign out front and some press info in the windows. I ate at their street cart back in September when we had the Columbia street- street fair and it was great! I have been dying for it to open already cause there isn't much else around here like it! Does anyone have an update on what the hold up is?

Who you gonna call?

This scene has always struck me as odd. I mean if I was walking by this store for rent on Union Street would I really call the broker over the owner? Why would a broker put their sign over the landlords and not ask the owner to take theirs down? What would compel me to call the broker over the landlord? Does this make the broker look bad? I mean it doesn't make them look good.
Commercial spaces are emptying out left and right in Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill and i just don't see how this kind of advertising is advantages to anyone.