Downtown Problems

The Downtown is dying, as we have seen business after business close shop or move on to more prosperous cities. How would you rejuvenate the town?

We need to advertise our assets all over the country. Invite businesses to come here and extend their growth in our community  We need to bring in businesses that will serve the TriCity Metro area by filling a void and further advance developments already underway. This will give our city a tax base to rebuild the Downtown, parks, and attract new businesses.

Together we can do this. We have  much to offer medium size corporations (<50 but="">500 employees).  Our business  potential is greater than most citizens have realized and now its worth its weight in gold if the right moves are made.  

We can plan our dreams for Downtown and can develop our assets for improvements that increase our tax base.  This town has never seen investments we need to actually bring tourism to our shops and restaurants.  As your Mayor I will encourage big dreams and work to bring vision to the city.

I believe being a place where people want to visit, shop and put their kids in our schools is what we all hope to have here someday. We will still be a community with our rural culture, but through our commercial efforts we will reduce poverty here at  home and contribute to the  prosperity of the greater Benton City community.