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^ Agree, it's a good store no matter the location. While the Valle Crucis location is special, the others are always worth a visit. No doubt this will bring even more people downtown.
We visited one in Banner Elk and if it's like that one $1.3 mil is about $1.2 mil too much IMO.
I agree. This is great for downtown Winston-Salem but 1.3 million is waaay too much for a general store. This is not Saks Fifth Avenue. $200,000 should be the max for a business this size. But it will be a great addition for downtown
Read the whole article. This is not like city council is throwing $1.2 million to the wind for a business to open downtown. This deal involves more than just Mast....it includes building renovations and apartments to be built in an effort to lure the store to downtown Winston-Salem. And the city has clawbacks tied to it's deals, just like Dell, Caterpillar, and Inmar....so that it's money has strings attached.
I agree. This is great for downtown Winston-Salem but 1.3 million is waaay too much for a general store. This is not Saks Fifth Avenue. $200,000 should be the max for a business this size. But it will be a great addition for downtown
Mast General will do much better than a Saks would do in downtown Winston-Salem...I'm sure you love to belittle anything going on outside of Greensboro, but this is a big deal and you know GSO would do anything to get a store like this in its downtown.
Mast General will do much better than a Saks would do in downtown Winston-Salem...I'm sure you love to belittle anything going on outside of Greensboro, but this is a big deal and you know GSO would do anything to get a store like this in its downtown.
I was going to write an explanation but this > will do in respect to your statement.
Mast General will do much better than a Saks would do in downtown Winston-Salem...I'm sure you love to belittle anything going on outside of Greensboro, but this is a big deal and you know GSO would do anything to get a store like this in its downtown.
Oh I forgot, Greensboro is getting a full service grocery store downtown. Believe me, more people would rather have that.
All I was saying is that its a lot of incentive money. It will still be a great addition for Winston-Salem.
Mast General will definitely be a coup for downtown Winston-Salem. The store tends to have a ripple effect in the immediate area with other retail and restaurant establishments following.
Mast General will definitely be a coup for downtown Winston-Salem. The store tends to have a ripple effect in the immediate area with other retail and restaurant establishments following.
I think it great having this store, but should government be giving corporate welfare for retail?
If does have the ripple effect as you state with retail & restaurant, wouldn't it have a ripple effect on them asking for the same incentives?
Oh I forgot, Greensboro is getting a full service grocery store downtown. Believe me, more people would rather have that.
All I was saying is that its a lot of incentive money. It will still be a great addition for Winston-Salem.
A small, locally-owned "grocery store". Don't act like a Harris Teeter is opening in downtown Greensboro.
I've read your other posting on this and other sites. We all know that isn't all you're saying...you are constantly putting down Winston-Salem and talking up Greensboro - you might as well just own it.
Corporate welfare is "bailing out" or otherwise helping businesses that are doing poorly. And more often than not it refers to large corporations (see the auto bailout)
Incentives for popular, growing businesses to open in a particular area are not new. And if the store actually proves popular and attracts other businesses to the area, it will more than pay for itself.
There is absolutely no way downtown Winston would have made the improvements that it has if the city didn't do things to draw in businesses.
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