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Cape Charles Planning Commissioners cast their eyes outside Town limits at their October 1 meeting, as Town Planner Robert Testerman asked for ideas about kinds of highway businesses that could benefit the Town, as well as those that could hurt it.
"Good" businesses suggested by the planning commissioners for Route 13 included chain motels, an antique center, outlet stores, fast food restaurants, adult daycare, a tutoring center, family practice, an emergency care facility, retail seafood, a veterinarian, dog grooming, and eco-tour businesses.
Development outside of town was on the agenda as the result of a recent joint work session by the Town and County planning commissions. Routes cheap tampa rental cars into Cape Charles make up the Historic Town Entrance Corridor Overlay District, as designated in the 1991 Annexation Agreements.
Town planning commissioners agreed that Route 13 needs more motels. The existing ones (Rittenhouse Motor Inn, Peacock Inn, Shore Stay Suites, Sunset Beach Inn) are not chains, which they saw as a negative. Speaking about the nearest motel, the Rittenhouse, for example, Buchholz said, "People won't stop there. They'll cheap tampa rental cars stay at a Red Roof Inn. They will not stop unless it is a known chain."
The commissioners agreed cheap tampa rental cars that Bed Breakfasts cheap tampa rental cars would not suffer if more motels were built on the highway, because people who stay at B Bs have to plan ahead and are a different clientele from persons staying at motels.
Two Annexation Agreements were signed in 1991, one between the Town and developer Brown Root, and one between the Town and Northampton County. Both agreements address concerns about potential development on the access routes into town.
The agreement between Northampton County and Cape Charles states: "The County acknowledges that the Town and the Commission [on Local Government] have concerns about the potential impact to the existing business districts within the towns of Cape Charles and Cheriton caused by commercial development along the Virginia State Route 184 corridor and at the traffic light on U.S. Route 13."
That plan will shut down the Coffee Shop, Rayfields Pharmacy, Watson s Hardware, Rittenhouse Motor Inn, Peacock Motel, and others. The chains with their big money will just about make Cape Charles business district into a Ghost Town. You don t need people to come here, you need people to live here. People have money to move the economy around all year long, not just the summer.
If and when strip malls come here there will be no control over what goes into them. That is my concern. Who can say what the businesses will be? Perhaps a little cheap tampa rental cars ladies clothing store (look out Bad Girlz), perhaps a bait and tackle shop (look out Bailey s), maybe an Ace Hardware (look out Watson s). Do you see where I am going with this? Strip malls are tacky at best and we do not need them on the highway coming into town. More businesses cheap tampa rental cars in town are needed. Problem is that the owners of vacant buildings cheap tampa rental cars want Virginia Beach prices for renting space.
A hotel would be nice I suppose. I agree that the people that stay at the B B s are a different type of person than the people that stay at hotels. All I want is for the town businesses to flourish and grow and for everyone to KNOW that it will be impossible to control what goes onto the highway. That would be discrimination.
Or could it be that many many people cheap tampa rental cars saw how the Town planners treated Hotel Cape Charles cheap tampa rental cars regarding the balconies? When Governments are business-friendly, businesses come. When Governments are hostile to businesses, they stay away.
Several years ago a group doing business as Harmony Investments presented a very attractive plan for a Hampton Inn at the corner of Parsons Cir N and US13. Their website currently shows 12 hotels including the Sunset Beach Inn here and 3 area Hampton Inn facilities.
The County gave all approvals to begin construction and yet nothing cheap tampa rental cars ever happened. I was told by one of their representatives about a year after the approvals were granted they did not have financing yet they proceeded to buy the Sunset Beach Inn.
Harmony Investments at 1300 Diamond Springs Rd, Suite 204 still owns the 19.5 acres and the approvals are still valid. Whoy dosen t Mr Buchholz galvanize the local CC real estate cheap tampa rental cars community and jointly convince Harmony to build instead of just obtaining approvals and then marketing them?
Shore Bank has, for years, an approved 8.5 acre unified site plan for development across from Food Lion and yet they have not chosen to invest in the features that the CCPC wants. And now those site approvals are for sale.
Maybe there is something else at play here that no one in the town or county government yet understands. Wouldn't it be wiser to build slowly by active government support for those businesses that have demonstrated investment in the community and are functioning?
For the past 61 YEARS the Rittenhouse lodge rents more rooms every night than any of the B Bs. This fact might not fit in with your concept of the way things should be, but it is a fact. Bob Rittenhouse
Chain motels do not impart character, foster a unique identity, or strengthen ones sense of place. If you ve done much traveling, the places that end up being memorable are the ones that are just that- memorable. Can t really remember much about the last Red Roof Inn I stayed in. The Peacock, The Rittenhouse- now we re talking character! Surely developing chain motels is not an integral part of a healthy economy ..is it?
Am I the only one who thinks this way? That is, competition is either good or bad for your business –- bad if you have nothing better to offer, as for value, quality, ambiance, customer service, cheap tampa rental cars etc. The future of your business is in your hands, the business owner, not the customer. I patronize restaurants in town because I truly like what I'm getting for my money, not because of altruism. The same logic that is attributed to people who patronize B Bs rather than chain hotels applies cheap tampa rental cars to any other kind of business. Why should town business owners fear competition if they have something different or better to offer? I say town businesses should not be too complacent about their existence and be more proactive cheap tampa rental cars in improving whatever needs improvement or maintaining what is working for them. Watson s Hardware has survived (centuries?) because it does provide a variety of merchandise that I never imagined I could find there (even if the prices are higher than the big chain stores), it's funky, and I always feel like I need to examine what's in every counter or aisle (and floor) because it's like a treasure hunt. I get excited when I find something cheap tampa rental cars I didn't expect to find. I did get intimidated at first by the old guards sitting in front of the store, which I later learned is a daily ritual and part of the atmosphere. Now, that's ambiance I can't find at Home Depot or Ace!
Location, location, location visitors will pay a little bit more to stay inside historic Cape Charles for the ambience and the amenities. A moderate- to budget-priced chain hotel built along Route 13 close to Cape Charles will attract clients who are more concerned for the value of their money rather than amenities and the hotel will therefore not be in direct competition to the lodging business in town.
As the parent of three young boys, when we travel, believe me, we have to look for affordable accommodations, not bed and breakfasts. Not do-able for our family. Neither can we afford expensive resort hotels, preferring instead to spend our limited money on experiences, not where we sleep for the night. We generally look for a reasonably priced chain motel, and if we can t find one, we have to keep going. Conversely, when my family comes to town, they prefer either a rental house or a B and B. So there is room for everyone in this discussion. We certainly don t want families to keep going.
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