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The home to many a We Shot JR meeting; The Meridian Room is closed..

The current excuse is that the State Fair pushed them out. Because Expo Park is dead with the State Fair going on.. which is strange because this weekend, tons of people were at Expo Park.. And when is the availability of a few million more customers an issue?? There's probably more to this story then what has been given to the media outlets, and their employees.. but I guess unlike Pegasus News, and The Observer I don't accept explanations with glaring holes in logic.. but like Pegasus News, and the Observer, I'll simply be too lazy to get more information about it.

Maybe we can blame the credit crisis??

Oh yeah, nobody buys cd's anymore.. so.. Cd World closed also..

  
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Thatcher says..1:29 AM
  
Hey I just want that jalapenio soup recipe I don\'t even live in Dallas anymore. seriously send it to me.
  
i hear tell says..5:50 AM
  
ulises, the owner of fallout lounge, told me that some employees of the libertine bar bought the meridian room. doesn\'t sound like crazed politics to me - just a buyout.

meridian room = bear stearns
libertine employees = jp morgan
former meridian room patrons = bear stearns stockholders
exposition = wall st
the future of expo park = future of U.S. investment banking
  
copy editing says..5:42 AM
  
\"The home to many a We Shot JR meeting; the Meridian Room is closed.\"

This is an incorrect use of the semicolon. The first half of the sentence is a fragment, and to use a semicolon, both parts of the sentence must be complete sentences that are able to stand alone in text. A correct way to write the sentence would be:

The Meridian Room, home to many a We Shot Jr. meeting, has closed.
  
Anonymous says..10:44 PM
  
the owner\'s of meridian couldn\'t financially afford to operate two businesses Meridian/Libertine. The had a unrealistic business model. I suppose they made \"sophie\'s choice\" & went with libertine. The writing was on the wall when most of their entree\'s were replaced with bad sandwiches. Hope libertine stays open.
  
sallyglass says..11:28 PM
  
now where will bruce go to expose his genitals while singing \'i\'ve got big balls\'?
  
nas says..3:54 PM
  
i heard the IRS shut them down . . .
  
Anonymous says..9:33 PM
  
Damn, John!
  
Anonymous says..2:27 PM
  
oh, trust me, dallas will be the same shitty City of Hate it\'s always been.
  
Anonymous says..2:59 AM
  
speaking of lazy...i need my daily value of fat in a teaspoon. where am i going to get some fucking aioli? what will dallas be without the meanest waitresses ever trowing 1/2 price cheese plates to jocks on dates with hipster girls and drunk angry businessmen?
  
Anonymous says..10:52 PM
  
dunhill partners- more like downhill partners!
  
I know says..10:39 PM
  
the people that own the properties are the ones to blame.
They gave everyone shitty deals on their leases.

when the current owners bought the properties they bought it full of tenants.

most of the lease agreements were set by the previous owners who had a good sense of what that area generates financially.

The new owners played as if nothing was going to change , but sure enough they drafted new agreements that were un realistic to that area. they were acting as though expo was uptown , so if you signed the new lease great you stayed , if you didn\'t you were gone. those that signed survived as long as they could but the area doesn\'t bring in enough to justify a huge rent increase,so as you can see everyone is closing.

now i wouldn\'t be surprised if they sold out to any developer that makes an offer, especially since the guy that made the big buy died recently.

someone needs to investigate the people that bought expo park. dunhill partners.
  
Anonymous says..8:40 PM
  
The people who go to the state fair, don\'t go to any of the places in Expo park. They just take up all the parking. Talk to anyone at any of the places down there-- and ask if their business increases during the fair. They will all tell you that it goes down.

Many regulars stay away during the whole fair.

\'Dart Construction\' is the excuse that doesn\'t hold any weight.
  
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