re: Chauna Banks pens letter describing how to fix North BR.

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The MC didn't decide what businesses were started in SBR or where they were placed. That was done by the owners and/or investors. Perkins Rowe was not the brain child of the MC looking for new retail/medical/entertainment/residential facilities. This isn't Sim City.

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yeah exactly. i always brought this up when i'd post about gary's comments about "excluding the money". he really thinks that a few 6-figure public contracts are going to make the difference in NBR. hell even Champion Medical was a drop in the bucket in terms of the EBR economy

they literally have no understanding of economics and support stupid ideas based on either ignorance or self-promotion (political pandering, political machines, etc).

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They complain that there are no grocery stores in NBR

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perfect example. hell i think that businesses in NBR can already receive lucrative tax breaks and they still don't invest there. what do they want? publicly-run grocery stores?

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They refuse to acknowledge the fact that no one wants to invest in a side of town that has no interest in investing in itself.

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the sad part is that if people did start to invest in the area, they would be criticized for gentrifying the area

it's a lose-lose and they never explain fully what they want. they speak in broad, vague platitudes and nothing else