Posted on 08/30/2020 9:58:23 AM PDT by qaz123
For years, Emory Morsberger has been a proponent of the possibilities along the Ga. 316 corridor.
So when Gwinnett leaders on Tuesday approved up to $72 million in loans for a massive development, Rowen, that could eventually bring more than 50,000 jobs to 2,000 acres outside Dacula, he didn’t mind that the public never got to weigh in on the proposal.
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1. To solicit public comment before this point, he said, could have driven land prices higher and cost residents even more ..... using the government to increase your profit margins by keeping it secret so the public cannot weigh in on anything and bring up minor issues like infrastructure and road construction and the HIGHER taxes that will come with the development, as they always do.
2. Penny Poole, president of the Gwinnett NAACP, said she finds the lack of transparency bothersome...... maybe she wanted to make sure the NAACP had certain guarantees concerning who gets the work, maybe not. Again secrets between the government and public.
3. In 2012, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation found the county had paid inflated prices for parkland to some politically connected developers using questionable appraisals......You don't say. The developers knew that if word got out about this, they would have been paying out the nose for the dirt and they wanted to avoid that. 316 is the road from Atlanta to Athens and it's kind of a nightmare to drive on now. Definitely going to have to be expanded and what friend of the Governor, or someone else in government, is going to get that contract remains to be seen.
4. Lastly....the way it was being reported on local radio the other day was that they expect up to 100k new jobs in the area. I'm not sure what a "research center focused on medicine, agriculture and the environment" is going to look like but they were also talking about the proverbial goose that lays only golden eggs, tech jobs. As if they're the only ones that folks can make money. But while 'tech jobs' do bring high paying salaries, they also bring LIBERALS and H1B visa holders and their entire families. When that happens, the 60k vote margin that allowed for Kemp to be the Governor of Georgia will slowly slip away and Georgia will become the next North Carolina....purple sliding ever more BLUE. Because like the Lt Governor said in his interview with Erickson a while back, they want to turn Georgia into a leading tech location. That happens, the Peach State is another North Carolina, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, soon to be Tennessee and others.
We do have FReepers who live in that part of Georgia so maybe we’ll get some more insight on it.
I would have placed the research campus closer to Athens than placing it in Metro-Atlanta. Athens has got lots of college professors and graduate students who could be hired to work at the facility. Plus, the land just west of Athens is lower priced than is the land just East of Atlanta.
Dacula is closer to Athens than it is to Atlanta, but not by much. Perhaps they were trying to attract talent from both areas? Athens does have lots of people via UGA but Georgia Tech and Emory do also.
I do.
If certain folks in Georgia want to make it the Silicon Valley of the Southeast, then it will become that. Run by liberals who hate many of the things Georgians like about the place.
The Congressman for that area is a Republican. There is a Republican Governor and 2 Republican Senators. The Georgia state senate is majority GOP. If it ends up being run by liberals who hate many things Georgians like about the place whose fault would it be?
All those Republicans taking money from developers and doing their best to lure tech companies to move to Georgia. IE....Austin, Nashville, Chattanooga, research Triangle in NC, and a whole host of other places.
Rick Perry did his best to “Open Texas”. Look at Austin - Dallas Metro Area - Houston(although it’s never been good). The folks that move don’t adopt to their new homes. They bring their old homes with them.
It’s a disease that spreads. The 6th US Congressional district elected a gun hating liberal that some say, didn’t even live in Georgia at the time of her election. I understand you can’t stop progress, but you can damn sure pay attention to who’s coming.
The old expression “you can’t go home again” comes to mind. GA is going the way of NC.
All I can do is wish you luck. I lived in Forsyth County for years, worked at the Lucent plant in Norcross until the dot com bomb exploded. Almost 5 years ago we sold everything and retired to Spain. I still use my old address for absentee voting and pay attention to local races.
Gwinnett Rowen Dacula how confusing. I don’t even want to know.
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