From the Lampasas Dispatch Record on June 7th, 2011 – or almost exactly 11 years ago:
With the recent redesign of the LEDC’s Web site — lampasasedc.com — growing interest in Lampasas at the retail conventions she attends and state awards the city has received recently, Mrs. Hargrove believes ongoing economic development efforts will bear fruit soon.
Fast forward 11 years to today: the LEDC is AGAIN re-designing their website. Mandy Walsh is the new Cherry Hargrove. She goes to all these conventions about “revitalizing downtown”. Hargrove ALSO believed that the business recruitment and Business Park efforts would “soon bear fruit”. Just like councilwoman Delana Toups said in 2017, six years after Hargrove’s assurances:
“Ms. Toups said she wants to continue to provide infrastructure to develop the business park. Ms. Toups said through the Lampasas Economic Development Corp.’s hard work, “we are on the verge of seeing large corporations come in [to the business park].” – April 21, 2017
As did former-councilwoman and complete numb nuts Wanda Biershwale two years before Toups:
“The incumbent said the city acquired the business park property several years ago but has lacked the infrastructure needed at the site. Soon, she said, the business park will be developed enough to be inviting to businesses. [Then-council-member Wanda Bierschwale] – April 10, 2015
It is like the movie Groundhog Day but not nearly as funny and it will NEVER make a profit.
End the LEDC. Let the free market reign.