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Ahoskie looks to attract new businesses
Published Saturday, March 6, 2010
AHOSKIE – “Matchmaker” – that’s what Ahoskie officials are hoping that a retail recruitment firm is able to offer the town.
At 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 10, representatives of the Buxton Company will be at the Ahoskie Town Hall for a public meeting with town officials where a proposal will outline the scope of fact-based information that can be used by the town to proceed with attracting and expanding its retail business sector.
Buxton’s Community ID Division has developed a program specifically designed to help smaller towns, economic development organizations and chambers of commerce identify and recruit retailers.
In the case of Wednesday’s meeting, Ahoskie officials will partner with the Ahoskie Chamber of Commerce and Hertford County Economic Development.
Additionally, Buxton is able to fine tune its services by using their Small City ID program. Using a variety of parameters, that effort identifies those retailers that have existing locations in communities comparable in size to the client’s community. Once similar markets are identified, the Small City ID program identifies those retailers with the greatest market presence. The client, Ahoskie in this particular case, can then utilize those results to create and establish a recruiting program to attract the identified retailers.
Buxton’s “matchmaking” program provides potential retailers with the factual data and market information on existing locations in their efforts to expand.
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Posted by PublicHealth1 (anonymous) on March 6, 2010 at 6:35 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Dear Buxton Company, you have your hands full. There are numerous problems associated with getting businesses into Ahoskie (aside from the commercial water issues). You have to deal with a town manager who is money hungry and a dysfunctional and inefficient town council. The permits and charges issued to start new construction are astronomical, prohibitive and unrealistic in getting new business growth. Be prepared to pay a lot of money to get water installed and running. You may want to consider bringing business into the surrounding "non-town" districts (look at construction at the other sided of Hwy 11 and 561 West) heading towards St. John or better yet, don't waste your time in Ahoskie and look towards Murfreesboro (they've got a friendlier town manager and town council). Oh, and by the way, bring lots of Tums cause there's a lot of heartburn.
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