Comments on: Lowe’s unveils plans for store at Landing Drive

By: Sally

Sally — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:24:41 +0000

I say NO to this project. I am a visitor to this area, I would be horrified to see a Lowes at that sight. Keep the trees and wildlife. NO TO LOWES!

By: JW

JW — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 14:52:04 +0000

If you are going to develop, build something useful. I vote Target and Barnes and Noble. That would at least fulfill a need in the community.

By: Mary

Mary — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:41:02 +0000

Enough of the big chains! Ripping out all those trees will kill any deer that live there, create light pollution, raising the tract for the building and garden shop will cause enviromental runoff issues, & what kind of damage will the immediate neighbors receive from a hurricane or noreaster without the tree buffer? As taxpayers we should have more of a voice and not the man with the big pocketbook! We moved here to get away from such political poop.

By: CQ

CQ — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:56:34 +0000

Born,raised and still currently living in KDH,right off of First Street. I believe it’s a bad idea. It isn’t going to create a ton of new jobs or drop prices. Has Foodlion dropped theirs or hired more locals because we now have several Harris Teeters? Or how about the chain restaurants and Wings? It’s going to be another eyesore. Our uniqueness is almost gone. Can we please stop destroying what so many of you moved here for and why so many still visit. I thought that’s why people moved here because we weren’t like everyplace else and everybody was trying to get away from the rat race. How many more chains do we need? Seriously people. Turning us into Va Beach or Myrtle Beach isn’t going to keep our visitors coming here…it’s just another nail in our coffin.

By: charlie

charlie — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:48:02 +0000

Hey. Let’s hold off on any building on the land bought up by Ngs Head and the Tourism Bureau. If Lowes or HD packs it in and scampers way because the sales are not there they’ll leave a building that can seat even more than a thousand or two. They’ll fork over the building for a song. Now that’s progress.

By: Quantum Mechanic

Quantum Mechanic — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:43:42 +0000

Glad it’s coming. Wish it were further south, but it will help.

By: Russ Lay

Russ Lay — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:05:55 +0000

@Virginia–I suspect there are two parts to those stories. It is true that if zoning is tight it takes one big box store to succeed in order to allow others in. More importantly however is that all of these chains are driven by growth and growth comes from new stores as older ones mature or even decline. These companies use a lot of demographic data to choose new locations, so its a sure bet if one of them had found a new location, its competitors are also discovering the same thing. In big towns this is not much of a problem. In small areas, like ours, a problem can occur if too many of them come to the same conclusion, build their stores and discover the market can’t support that much retail space. Then you get vacant big boxes.

By: Virginia Tadrzynski

Virginia Tadrzynski — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:18:44 +0000

Up here in PA, whenever a Lowes goes in, lo and behold, a Walmart is soon to follow in the same developement. I think they have a devil’s agreement….one breaks down the zoning and the other rides the coat-tails in.

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By: Bill Holt

Bill Holt — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:42:23 +0000

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