But I also got to work closely with a lot of economic development folks in the area. Plus, we pretty much covered the gamut of community and economic development. However, there were a number of housing and service projects, as well as our share of retail projects. You know, I'm not naive enough to think that we don't have problems here. I would like to do as much as we can on the economic development side to turn the population loss around.
Retail is a different ballgame.
Incentives are nice for any business, but you need to increase the numbers downtown. You need to prove to retail folks that there is a population that will visit their stores. I think we're headed in the right direction, but it's not going to happen overnight. It's been our bread and butter for years. The Wright Dunbar area.