Every now and then I drive around and hit all the hot spots to see what’s going on. Today I hit several – here is my report:
BRODIE ESTATES: There has been ZERO activity over at Brodie Estates in the two months since I last questioned how S2M2 was going to hold up their end of the bargain after grabbing $185,000 from the City almost three years ago. As a reminder, S2M2 agreed to build 22 houses. They are still sitting at only six. So they only have to build a house about every two weeks to meet their goals. I can’t wait to see what happens when they are nowhere near 22 houses at the end of this year. Another black eye for the Talbert administration.
INDUSTRIAL PARK AGREEMENT: Well, Martin Rod is off to a slow start if he hopes to have 50 boats/trailers in his new lot (supplied to him at only $100 per month, courtesy of the City).
But he DOES have some nifty signs informing us of all the massive investments that are coming! Food trucks (which I’ve been hearing about in this town for at LEAST 6 years and requires nothing but space), dog park (which also requires nothing but space), cigar lounge, and a mechanical vocational school:
Wait a second! What about the distillery/microbrewery? What about the barber shop! If you’re gonna throw a bunch of bullshit up there, why not go hog wild? None of it will ever happen anyways – well, except for maybe the dog park. All you need is a sign out there that says “This is now a dog park”.
Anyone can buy vinyl banners promising the world. Building all this shit and making it a viable business is another story altogether.
They will call this utopia “Xanadu” – and rich dummies will come from all over the world to get a haircut, smoke a stogie and walk their dog. The City will become a famous mecca for food trucks and they will make their initial investment back 100 times over and create dozens, nay, HUNDREDS of “primary jobs” like Dog Park Attendant and Food Truck Worker.
Just kidding. It’s called Patina Alley and right now, it’s in the “vinyl banner of a pipe dream” stage.
But when it’s complete, it’s gonna be AWESOME!
It’s totally gonna be like that artist’s rendition of the LEDC Business Pork that turned out to be so eerily accurate!
LEDC NON-PROFIT IRS FILINGS: The IRS is WAY behind on posting Form 990 for non-profits. I have been waiting for the 2021 LEDC filing for almost a year now. So, I stopped by Jack Clark’s CPA office and requested a copy. Jack is as nice as can be and was very helpful. I recommend him for ALL of your tax needs!
Anyways, I’m digging through it now. I CAN tell you they skimmed a new record of $422,532 in sales tax off the citizenry that year – crushing the previous record set the year before by 21%.
Where does all the money go?? Well, I’ve covered that before.