{"id":326,"date":"2007-02-19T16:30:11","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T21:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=326"},"modified":"2007-02-19T16:34:51","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T21:34:51","slug":"first-big-hurdle-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"First Big Hurdle Tonight:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" title=\"Target\" alt=\"Target\" src=\"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/images\/target.jpg\" \/>Okay, the picture pretty much says it.  The <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Crestpoint presentation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cortn.org\/summit\/summit-crestpoint.pdf\">City&#8217;s said it<\/a> much more precisely, but the deal is that a Super Target and associated stores could be reasonably expected to generate about $60M in sales in Oak Ridge.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a lot of money for our schools, but it&#8217;s about more than money.  It&#8217;s about making our town more desirable, both for ourselves, and for others who may be moving into the area.<\/p>\n<p>As <a title=\"AT: shopping\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.atomictumor.com\/2007\/02\/18\/oak-ridge-and-shopping\/\">AT said so well<\/a>, we have to shop somewhere, and what we have locally clearly isn&#8217;t enough.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s hoping that City Council says AYE to the first step in this process tonight.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I recognize that means there will likely be a petition drive for a referendum, and I don&#8217;t know whether GBT and Target would stick it out until June 5.\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;ve already invested a lot of time and money, which it seems would go to waste for naught if they walked away.<\/p>\n<p>Trouble is, their option on the land expires on April 15.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d rather have no referendum, but if we must, I hope at least to retain hope of this development going forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, the picture pretty much says it. The City&#8217;s said it much more precisely, but the deal is that a Super Target and associated stores could be reasonably expected to generate about $60M in sales in Oak Ridge. That&#8217;s a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=326\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}