Can the County Government Grow Fast Enough to Fill Vacant Retail?
This was the question with the death of many retail stores, can the local governments grow fast enough to fill all the space? The local government have purchased many of the available retail spaces as they open up. The governments are growing, but can they keep up with growing retail availability.
The county took over the restaurant that eventually became Live oaks theater. The city of Brooksville took over the bank building. The county utilities took over the Times building. The county has moved into the Innovative Technology Corp (also was where Tracers was located).
The Commissioner of District 6 was excited about looking at the new Rooms to Go building off of Cortez. He figured it would be out of business in a few years and in about five years he could have an office in the building. He explained that any time a new commercial building is built he looks to see if it would be a nice place for an office.
He then went on to admit that when he is approving commercial zoning he often thinks about how that would be a great spot for a county building. I figure at least half the retail will fail, so we need to keep building the county government to fill all the empty spaces. Just this past week we hired a bunch of new people. I will probably never learn their names.
Eventually, the master plan is to have just about everything be a government office he went on to explain. As the number of people in the county increases we need more government. Also as we pass more ordinances and building regulations we need more people to implement these.
