{"id":2444373,"date":"2019-05-19T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/support-paradise-regardless-of-its-location\/"},"modified":"2019-05-20T07:18:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T13:18:24","slug":"support-paradise-regardless-of-its-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/support-paradise-regardless-of-its-location\/","title":{"rendered":"Support Paradise regardless of its location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I too wanted to comment on Paradise Bakery losing its lease. I respect Lex Tarumianz for stating his case (<a id=\"N0x178fd10N0x15979d0:N0x178fd10N0x1662be0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/guest-commentary\/guest-commentary-landlords-explain-paradise-decision\/\">\u201cLandlords explain Paradise decision,\u201d<\/a> May 15, The Aspen Times), but it still seems that after being a loyal tenant for approximately 40 years, instead of a thank-you Paradise was offered a less desirable place, the expensive of moving, a disruption of their business and the turnover of the current lease to a competitive business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">That being said, a landlord can rent to anyone they choose, but as consumers we have the ability to choose where to spend our money and what businesses to support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I\u2019ve personally witnessed the Pattersons\u2019 generosity to community nonprofits, schools and area kids, combined with their ability to employ countless locals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">My suggestion is to reach out to Loro Piana to let them know that you will not support them or recommend them as a community business. Loro Piana may not know how this expansion will affect our town, and they deserve to have all the information. Then if Paradise has to move locations, walk wherever you need to and buy your gelato from a business that supports your community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Barb Frank<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/support-paradise-regardless-of-its-location\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I too wanted to comment on Paradise Bakery losing its lease. I respect Lex Tarumianz for stating his case (\u201cLandlords explain Paradise decision,\u201d May 15, The Aspen Times), but it still seems that after being a loyal tenant for approximately 40 years, instead of a thank-you Paradise was offered a less desirable place, the expensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2444373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 12:50:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}