I have been reading and listening to one of the B-1 rezoning arguments: the Village Center project at the corner of Gills Neck Road and Kings Highway should be approved because it has been scaled back from the original 520,000-square-foot complex which included commercial, housing and office space, to a mere 75,000-square-foot shopping center. An impressive reduction of 85 percent!
If J.G.Townsend was a responsible developer, they would have started at 75,000 square feet, and not something the size of all of the Tanger Outlets.
To go from an application of 520,000 square feet (2007) to 387,000 square feet (2009) to 215,000 square feet (2015) to 75,000 square feet (2016) looks to me as though they are trying to develop as much commercial land as they can possibly get away with.
And to say they have no plans for the remaining 32 acres of prime land is just absurd.
This development is not wanted; we have all of the shopping we could possibly need within a five-mile radius.
Howard and Joann Eberle
Senators
Lewes
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