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Originally Posted by JohnNada
An investor like that would be great. My major concern is that with the current situation that Charleston is in that there may not be an investor willing to come and take the risk.
You take a place that keeps losing population and has no plan in place for growth and combine that with the invasion of vagrants and increasing crime. That's not a good place to invest in.
I was at the mall yesterday. It has the feel of a place that's on it's last legs just like Sears and Kmart are/were when I went in those stores.
And whoever made the decision to put the carpeted squares down on the second floor should be fired. Looks horrible.
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John, you are a man after my heart. I hate those peel and stick carpet tiles as well and you are right the mall feels like a funeral parlor.
The city, in it's infinite wisdom has just decided that there is nothing wrong enough to change our current policy regarding the homeless situation. I actually think that term is inaccurate, vagrant situation is a better descriptor. There are enough studies out there to prove Charleston's current policy is the wrong one. Vagrants are well-traveled it seems, moving to locales that offer more and more services catering to their vagabond lifestyle. The testimony from the police officers of the CPD states clearly they know which of the homeless are locals and which are not, which is the vast majority. The locals, from what I am told and have read of, do not seem to cause an issue and are using the services provided as intended. However, the others are the reverse.
We will not see a change in the city with any of the pressing concerns until Mayor Jones is gone and even then, we have 2 other heads of the evil beast that will remain. The All-powerful hydra known as the County Commissioners office and the collection of self-inflated dunderheads we call the city council. I can't complain too loudly as I believe a people that continues to elect this sort into office deserves all the ill will that goes along with that selection.
If we randomly picked people off the street and placed them all in the various offices of the city, we would be light years ahead of the follies by the current representation. It is a shame too, Charleston once had what I thought was a model group of representatives, but they died out and these wannabes moved into the void and the city has gone down hill ever since. Danny Jones was not the start of the slide but he has been a poor mayor at best.
With the mall in receivership it will do much better but it is going to be a while and the operating authority could decide that CTC is too far gone and begin the end phase of its existence. I can't imagine anyone in government would allow that too happen but when we look out at some of their other genius-level decisions, could we truly be surprised if that did come to pass?
Charleston has a population problem because of the County Commission. If they loose residents to the city they loose revenue. Pretty simple problem there. The city is actually making life worse for itself when it co-locates and works with the county, taking on the burden of running a county on the city ledger. It is a parasitic relationship and both the leech and the host are dying as a result.
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