They should look into starting the "Beagle Farm" business...and start by turning the Convention "Off" Center into one. Then they'd get a hotel for sure.
Their strategy type methods...or lack of...have always been a hoot and a holler...so why would Council be able to do anything now?... we should ask. Most citizens have been shown their tactics unfold in the recent years with:
1. Successful Pro Baseball Field...
2. Successful Convention Center Hotel...
3. A fountain on Market St. that keeps getting hit by cars...
4. Sewer system fully operational...
5. Buying Inland Greens for big plans...
6. Road repairs at a pleasing rate...
(I gotta stop...I'm laughing to hard)
Quotes>(i.e.):
1."We're having to catch up with our new economic realities and I think we have a legislator in place right now that's going to work real hard to do that," says Catlin.
2. "We have to work together to figure out which direction we want to go," says Connie Majure-Rhett, chamber president and CEO. "How to attract companies here, how to attract people here, how to keep people here and how to develop jobs so people don't have to leave."(Unquote)
That leaves the real estate business out...what else?
How about starting a clothing store where I can find a pair of pants with a 29" length?
If there continues to be no solutions to these issues...the Cape Fear River will move elsewhere sooner or later too!
You go Girls!!!