SouthsideCentral was LIVE! at Danville City Hall for this morning’s Industrial Development Authority meeting. This article is now complete, so enjoy the recap.
Hey, hey! The gang’s all here!
Telly Tucker was late. He didn’t get a seat. Awwww.
Finance Director Mike Adkins knows where the money is.
Telly Tucker, Director of Economic Development, is asking the IDA for $10K for a start on the upcoming precision machining program at GW. Shirley Primiano asks why a new program is needed and why can’t the schools partner with Pittsylvania County. Apparently, she doesn’t read SouthsideCentral. The idea passes 7-0. As Primiano votes, she says she still thinks that there should be some way that the city and county programs could merge together. She just doesn’t get it and hasn’t been keeping up with how the county program is at capacity & has a waiting list. Gah! By the way, Kathy Osborne & Jackie Rochford from Danville Public Schools were at the meeting, but didn’t need to talk after all.
Kathy Cropp is ready to open her new restaurant this weekend.
Kathy Cropp from the upcoming Me’s Burgers & Brews is asking for dumpster space in the parking lot beside the business. She says that the restaurant will start with 4 PM to 11 PM or 12 M Tuesday – Saturday hours with a possible expansion to lunch service down the road. They’re going to do a lot more frying under the new format so used grease storage will be needed.
Next, the IDA officially approves the purchase of the land that went up for auction right as you make the hard right turn on Airport Drive, going towards the Cyberpark. They were the high bidder at $110,000.
The guys from Watershed Ventures introduce themselves to the IDA after buying up lots of downtown properties.
Watershed Ventures is here to explain their River District investment plan. They’re the group that has bought the Continental Imperial warehouse, the Belk building and the First Citizens Bank building.
You’ve seen this photo before. Closed session. Stay out!
The board moves to closed session. Rick Barker remains in the room, so I know that they’re talking about his plans for the 500 block of Craghead St.
The closed session lasted about 35 minutes, and no action was taken as regards to Rick Barker and his properties. There was some action taken extending some kind of agreement, but I’ll have to find out more about that as they talked quickly and then adjourned. All votes today were the standard 7-0 ones.
We’re done here! Thanks for reading the most detailed coverage of today’s meeting. It’s only here on SouthsideCentral!
Bruce a quick correction – Watershed Ventures purchased the Imperial Warehouse not the Continental Warehouse. The Continental is the new set of condos that opened, however, the Continental and the Imperial are very close in proximity. 🙂
Thanks. I’ve made that correction in the article.