City Council Work Session

Date: November 2019

Councilman Jose Garcia

“I think it should come to the historic board,” Garcia said. “One of the things I do remember is although Mickey’s (Cafe) was not a building that belonged to the city, the city took a lot of heat because the owner decided to demolish Mickey’s rather than trying to save it and improve it.

“I’d hate to have to go through all that for a building that we do own,” he added. “It is sentimental to many people, many of them are in their upper years and many of us remember the first movie that we saw there and the last movie that we saw there.”

Councilman J.W. Tidwell

“What do you need a parking lot for downtown? There’s no businesses there for people to drive to downtown,”. “You tear down the building and all I see is another vacant lot on Main Street for tumbleweeds and mesquite bushes to grow. If you want to use the fact that it’s an eyesore, I could use that as an argument for two or three other buildings on Main Street. Or are we going to tear them down too?”

Councilman Georges Reuter

“I’ve just been on council for a year and I’ve talked to Jon long before that but apparently the City Council all these past years, they didn’t do anything,”. “I was not there but either way we act or we don’t act. I told Jon years ago that Eloy should have a place that is semi museum, semi event center, something that the new people and old people of Eloy can use.”


Source: Dust Bowl Theatre: To save or not to save, Eloy officials must decide, By MARIA VASQUEZ, Staff Writer, Nov 13, 2019, https://www.pinalcentral.com/eloy_enterprise/news/dust-bowl-theatre-to-save-or-not-to-save-eloy-officials-must-decide/article_c95d0bf1-8fa8-5fd0-80c5-

Councilman Georges Reuter

“I agree that downtown Eloy has one thing and that’s Main Street, that has potential,” Reuter said. “The rest has no potential as it is now. If we don’t get Main Street running, the rest of downtown will not prosper to where we want it. … We’ve put a lot of money in the facades, we’ve put a lot of money in the water tower and if we don’t put the effort in Main Street as a place for people to come to eat, to drink, to have fun, downtown Eloy will never live up again.”

Source: Pair of entrepreneurs present idea for using Eloy's Dust Bowl, By MARIA VASQUEZ, Staff Writer, Mar 5, 2021, https://www.pinalcentral.com/eloy_enterprise/news/pair-of-entrepreneurs-present-idea-for-using-eloys-dust-bowl/article_a9517c89-e935-56b8-bb11-9cc559970f15.html