Comment on The mud is starting to fly over the downtown Nugget Project by Pumpman
The payback on the V&T RAILROAD PROJECT has not been proven yet … and here we go again; another pie-in-the-sky boondoggle. How about concentrating on filling the empty buildings and lots in the Industrial Park (Arrowhead Drive)? Get some tax-paying businesses to move in … give “incentives” to make that happen.
Economic Incubators work in communities that have high-horsepower colleges (Stanford; Harvard; MIT) … not in a working class town like ours. You build near the talent-pool.
I agree with the Chamber … let’s walk a bit slower … this might be another ripoff.