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Downtown Gastonia is a symbol of: It’s an important factor for industrial, commercial and professional recruitment. |
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Downtown Gastonia serves as a good incubator for new small businesses-the success of tomorrow. Strips and malls are often too expensive for new entrepreneurs. Lower rents make Downtown Gastonia a good location. |
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Downtown represents independent businesses which: • Support a local family |
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| It helps reduce sprawl by concentrating activity in one area.
Downtown Gastonia is a major employer. Often when you count the number of jobs in a community you will find that Downtown is one of the biggest employers. Downtown Gastonia employs approximately 5000 workers. The infrastructure in Downtown Gastonia is a major public investment. Only healthy businesses in buildings assessed at full value generate taxes that give taxpayers a return on this public investment. A revitalized Downtown Gastonia protects property values in surrounding residential neighborhoods. Rehabilitation work in Downtown Gastonia stimulates the local economy. Materials and labor for new commercial construction often comes from out of town. Downtown Gastonia is the heart of the community, and the site for government, arts, churches, and financial institutions. Downtown Gastonia is an important community space, where members of all segments of the community can meet equally for parades, speeches and other community events. Downtown Gastonia can be a tourist attraction and is the location of a community’s unique businesses and buildings, and asset worth saving. |
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