King Dolan at it again...
'Excessive' growth bodes well for Sandy, Dolan says
Once again Mayor Dolan is bragging about how he has brought the promised land to Sandy. He has brought in tons of new retail and even greater things are planned with the glorious new soccer arena that should start construction soon.
How, makes you want to pack up and move doesn't it.
Right until you start putting the numbers together then you think again about how good the promised land will be in say 15 to 25 years. He brags about how much sales tax collections have gone up since all of this new retail has come to town.
But lets look at the other side of the coin.
1. Retail is cyclical. Retail comes in it goes out. When there is an economic slow down retail is the first businesses to feel the when people stop buying.
2. In addition, because of our generous tax right offs for developers, they design the projects to last for the period of their tax right offs then they are usually sold and someone else is left to hold the bag when the buildings start falling apart.
3. Big Boxes like the Super Wal-Mart, Lowes and the others like them actually cost more in resources in the long run than they bring in. That includes city services such as Police, Fire, Sewers, Roads and others. In the long run the residents could be taking it in the shorts.
4. Sandy may be the hot spot now, but just like Cottonwood Mall things begin to change. Developers find new places, and the retailers slowly move on.
5. Sandy is not working toward bringing any retail in that has any connections to the community. Sandy should be pushing for smaller independent stores to come in that benefit the community more and generally pay higher wages.
6. Sandy needs to be bringing in something besides retail. It is no different than places to dependent on Logging, Mining, Tourism or any other single industry, when that industry hurts the town is hurt even worse.
People need to start asking Mayor Dolan the hard questions, and see what Sandy's long term future really looks like.
Once again Mayor Dolan is bragging about how he has brought the promised land to Sandy. He has brought in tons of new retail and even greater things are planned with the glorious new soccer arena that should start construction soon.
How, makes you want to pack up and move doesn't it.
Right until you start putting the numbers together then you think again about how good the promised land will be in say 15 to 25 years. He brags about how much sales tax collections have gone up since all of this new retail has come to town.
But lets look at the other side of the coin.
1. Retail is cyclical. Retail comes in it goes out. When there is an economic slow down retail is the first businesses to feel the when people stop buying.
2. In addition, because of our generous tax right offs for developers, they design the projects to last for the period of their tax right offs then they are usually sold and someone else is left to hold the bag when the buildings start falling apart.
3. Big Boxes like the Super Wal-Mart, Lowes and the others like them actually cost more in resources in the long run than they bring in. That includes city services such as Police, Fire, Sewers, Roads and others. In the long run the residents could be taking it in the shorts.
4. Sandy may be the hot spot now, but just like Cottonwood Mall things begin to change. Developers find new places, and the retailers slowly move on.
5. Sandy is not working toward bringing any retail in that has any connections to the community. Sandy should be pushing for smaller independent stores to come in that benefit the community more and generally pay higher wages.
6. Sandy needs to be bringing in something besides retail. It is no different than places to dependent on Logging, Mining, Tourism or any other single industry, when that industry hurts the town is hurt even worse.
People need to start asking Mayor Dolan the hard questions, and see what Sandy's long term future really looks like.
posted by JMD at 12:49 PM
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