You did your good deed trying to help it here, Paul!
They met the 50,000 and are now shooting for 75K (but who can say if any number makes a specific bit of impact or not? - certainly a guess).
I suspect Jim R is on the right track suggesting that local support means at least a little more than broad internet support for something like this (and perhaps physical - how old fashioned! - but an actual signature proves a person is actually near there, rather than a bunch of unknown internet "signatures").
Hopefully it helps at least a little to offset the simple raw math of collecting rent from Starbucks and Panera vs. keeping it as it is right now.
-Dave