City of Worthington gets positive news on growth
January 21, 2011 at 6:00 pm in Worthington Daily Globe
Permitted work tops five-year average; population growing
WORTHINGTON Economic conditions still may be difficult for many, but that doesn’t appear to be slowing development in the city of Worthington. Continue Reading
Hyvee and Sterling drug is all well and good. So now the taxpayer can pay for the demolition of the failed northland mall. The gain is far less than the loss in this situation. Where development leaves behind a building or facility, part of the overall plan must deal with the re-use of the old building!!!
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Why reuse a building that is poorly maintained and over priced for space? Each business feels it is a better business move to build new buildings. Not to mention that HyVee building is an expansion of their current location and is hiring for the new store. As for Sterling, they will be right across a clinic and hospital. That will easily generate more business for them simply by location.
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You’re absolutely right, Merc. HyVee and Sterling are making sound business decisions. I guess the naysayers here will boycott the new HyVee or Sterling Drug once they open. The future of the Northland Mall is uncertain, at best. I’m sure the city and the mall owner/developer would welcome ideas on how the space could be optimized. One idea: outlet mall. Others?
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The city of worthington has no one with any vision to try and bring more jobs to this town. The person in charge of trying to bring new busnesses to town is a joke he has done nothing for this area, oh and the county is just as bad.
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Perhaps you could volunteer your time for such a task…..
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I would love to do that but first we need people in leadership positions that care about what is best for this town and will take your advice and forget about what is best for just their friends, In talking to people who have tryed to make a difference in this town nobody cares what they have to say.
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Didnt realize my comments on this article were political. I just stated that hyvee and sterling moves were good business choices. And i didnt realize you were part of my congregation.
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Glad you took a quote and used it without the context of the discussion. I am not sure what you exposed me as….but you certainly have comfirmed my questions on your mental status.
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Just curious… How can we be certain that “Minister Merc’s” a man of the cloth, just from his handle here? Does that make Whatajoke a comedian?
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Most All of this so-called growth in recent memory is really corporate leaches! They take out millions on millions all while hiring as few and paying as little as possible! What we really need is businesses that bring gainful employment to town in numbers! The city should also consider a local tax on the millions leaving the community now, if possible. If there is growth here it is to a very small percent of the population while a large part of the population is baying for it. That scenario is unsustainable just as is our federal export jobs and import labor policy is! I hope we are all seeing that now (getting It).
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What Deano said!!!!! Get your heads out of the sand people!!!!! Soon worthington will get a new events center. Glitz, glam, and bling will prevail and it will look flashy, but what will it accomplish? The construction company will be from out of town. The workers will stay at hotels and spend a little money in the bars but the real gravy money will go elsewhere. A couple of managers will get good paying jobs and they will build houses and buy cars and stimulate the economy. The vast majority of the new jobs will be part time and low wage. Worthington will have to build more subsidized housing and Nobles county will have to supplement their meager income with food stamps and general assistance. Some economic growth. Soon there will be no one left to supplement those meager incomes as the rest of us will be joining them in income adjusted housing and assistance!!!!!
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Why all the cynicism? Has anyone else noticed lately that virtually EVERY comment — regardless of the article’s content — has been angry or negative? Are we really all that miserable? Is our lot in life really so tragic? Americans are better off than 90% of the world’s population but it never seems good enough. Some people’s first reaction is to criticize, to blame, to denigrate, to complain… almost always without offering any solutions. All you hear is that “people in authority are idiotic, crooked, incompetent”. Is there nothing to be grateful for? Do you really think someone’s out to get you?
I encourage you to take a glance at the posts on the articles here and count the comments that are positive or constructive. You’ll see quickly they’re in the minority. If you’re so unhappy, try to do something to make it better. Being an armchair quarterback is unproductive.
Two sayings come to mind: “If you don’t have something good to say about someone, don’t say anything at all.” And, “It’s better to be silent, and to be thought stupid, than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.”
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Still Not Getting It? Ok it’s obvious you haven’t lived here long! Talk to some of the older residents, ones that are old enough to really remember say 25 or so years ago. I’m sure you will get a lot of background on how this town has deteriorated over the years. It may look clean on the surface but underneath it’s dirty. As I said talk to the citizens, and not the 15% that make a killing off of the people but to the other 85% paying the price. Then if you still don’t get it, all I can say is, as pat e. says…welcome to Worthington you will come to love us… or something like that! Most likely it will be the other way around. The longer the worse..
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I grew up here, so I “get it”. Cynicism gets us nowhere. Nor does continuing to spout problems, without solutions. Misery doesn’t always love company.
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A better idea would be to force the packing plant into the hands of people that care about the U. S. and its citizens. A place that pays enough so the people that work there could support themselves without draining the taxpayers. A place where the taxpayer does not have to pay for the welfare of their work force.. Gainful employment so that some sort of a dream might be achieved instead of the nightmare we have now! You know like it was before wrongful immigration!
How is that for a solution?
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Standing up for a failed system sure doesn’t help either. At least you finally admit that there are problems. Maybe you are getting it! The solutions will have to come from people in higher places then you or I. I only endeavor to keep the problems in focus and not to minimize or deny their existence, as it seems you want to do…
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I see solutions to the problems. “consider a tax on the millions leaving the community”. Great solution. “where development leaves behind an empty building, part of the solution must be the reuse (or demolition) of that building.” The so called “nay sayers” regularly post possible solutions. Pull your head out of the sand so you can hear and see what is going on!!!!!
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“Naysayers regularly post possible solutions.” Isn’t that a good thing? It’s a whole lot better than lobbing grenades from the sidelines at people in power. Share YOUR solutions with these people — who likely aren’t reading your comments here.
Your complaints fall on deaf ears here. You likely know that. Why don’t all the miserable people get together, grab a table at the Blue Line, and come up with solutions offline? Then those who seriously want to discuss issues don’t get sidetracked.
“Grumpy Old Men” was a great movie. It shouldn’t be a way of life.
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“grab a table at the Blue Line, and come up with solutions offline? Then those who seriously want to discuss issues don’t get sidetracked.†So you want us to shut up so serious people like you can be heard! I’m pretty sure we are serious here and besides according to you there are no issues…
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When you grew up here and how long you have lived here since can make a big difference on your view. For instance my kids grew up here also and say like in high school they knew there was a problem but they couldn’t understand the scope of it. Since they grew up with it, it was all they knew and thought it was just the way it is\was. Since moving on to areas that more resemble the United States they now understand the problems faced here. One of the real sad things is that they had to grow up in the oppressed environment that Worthington offers. They grew up without many things due to the illegal and wrongful oppression of the area. In hindsight I would have done things differently, but it snuck up slowly.
There is no room for growth here. Except maybe for foreigners. Not the way many think a U. S. town should be.
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I will agree with one thing! I do quite often write to our representatives and I hope many more here do also. The Blue Line isn’t going to Get It, isn’t that kinda on the eastend?
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Deano — I’m not sure what the Blue Line isn’t going to “Get”, but I assume it’s your $$$. Yep, it’s on the east end, in the shadow of JBS. Recall that the sun rises everyday in the East — something very reassuring, and as regular as clockwork, signaling the start of a bright, new day in Worthington! Something to be feel good about, no?
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