Re: GC mayor out with the old and in with the new
All of the above you mentioned are problems for every city. The commerce is not taking place within the inner-city neighborhoods, nor do investors tour these same neighborhoods where you will find most of these drug zombies casing yards and alley ways. But investors, both in private property and commerce, sure do visit the town and tour the main thoroughfare. They do traffic studies, of how many, with counts of even which direction and times the traffic flows. It is at the best interest of the city to make the investments needed to update and clean up the city's curb appeal. The city can't expect investors to be interested in setting up shop or homes here if they allow the busiest part of the city to sit stagnant while they keep putting lipstick on the downtown area only. The city will never get any serious investors in this area as long as it's allowed to reflect the message, we have no pride and more than that, we have no money to spend. It takes money to make money, and everyone knows that. If you look like a town that falls under the poverty line you will attract businesses like payday loans, family dollar, dollar tree, pawnshops, and furniture stores like the Cavalier that moved into the Kmart building, over stock buy outs instead of an actual furniture store like value city or weekends furniture. The city needs attention along Nameoki Road and what happened to the entrance of the city near the old IHOP property getting some kind of facelift as promised? Say what you want about all the problems the city faces, but until these particular issues are addressed, this city will never be anything better than what it is today. We will sit on the sidelines and watch the growth up the hill and be envious and anxious at the same time we take our money up that hill to spend.
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