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Uploaded: Tuesday, July 17, 2007, 2:42 PM
Can Allied Arts Guild survive?
MP landmark has no restaurant and a dwindling number of visitors
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 | The Allied Arts Guild in Menlo Park, with its lush gardens, Spanish Colonial architecture, and a soundtrack of trickling fountains, has been a longtime favorite spot for residents of the Peninsula to enjoy peace and quiet.
The guild, to thousands of volunteers and patrons, has also been a favorite institution to support, as its profits go to the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford.
But lately, things are too quiet at the guild's historic complex at 75 Arbor Road — practically no one is ever there. Is its time running out?
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Posted by Tom, a resident of the Menlo Park: Sharon Heights neighborhood, on Jul 17, 2007 at 9:35 pm Allied Arts Gulid provides a wonderful pause from a busy world. It has come on lean times as a result of a concerted effort by "new" neighbors who want their peace and quiet and have hampered the operation of the restaurant and minimized their own involvement. Instead of offering their help and becoming involved they have stood on the outside, even bringing suit against a non-profit because operate at inconvenient hours and take up parking places in front of their homes. It seems there are a number of wolves at the door including some developers that would love to level the buildings and subdivid the grounds. Oh, to build more profitable mansions on postage-stamp sized lots. Condemation to raise the tax income for the public good. It happened in Connecticut and it will happen here.
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