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a A ER A new electronic data- base is set to give The Mountaineer Partnership a competitive edge in down- town development. The Mountaineer Part- nership Incorporation is taking a significant step to- . ward competing with suc- cessful auto-oriented, large “corporate retail shopping centers through more in- formed and proactive eco- nomic development efforts by managing the down- town much the same way a big shopping center does. Shopping centers typi- cally have a competitive advantage over traditional “downtowns because they own the real estate, re- search the market, manage the business mix, actively recruit, require uniform hours, cooperatively ad- vertise, monitor business performance, and insist on frequent store makeovers. As a non-profit organi- zation, the Mountaineer Partnership is not in the business of real estate ownership, but its first pri- ority in being a strong eco- nomic supporter for the City of Kings Mountain, in the management of down- town growth, is to thor- oughly know the downtown real estate and the downtown tenants. The Mountaineer Part- nership's economic re- structuring committee led by property and business owners Bobby ‘Horne of " Horne Construction & De- sign, and Howard Elmore of Hometown Hardware Wednesday, May 19, 2010 will oversee the volunteer effort to do a market analy- sis after the creation of the downtown property and business inventories are completed. Economic Restructur- ing Committee co-chair Bobby Horne and MPI board member Gina Col- lias have begun to create the +. downtown building/property inven- tory spreadsheet and will help to oversee the volun- teers who will help re- search and compile the data to be housed in the database yet to be created. The database will in- clude information about each of the buildings in the downtown area including assessed value and taxes, last sale date and amount, availability for sale or rent, total square footage, build- ing amenities, zoning class, historic status and building condition. The database will also include information about each business including the category of business, age of business, hours of “operation, volume of foot traffic, busiest times, type of goods and services, and business assistance needs. Using the downtown database, © Mountaineer Partnership will be able to output a variety of reports . and maps to answer ques- tions about the downtown posed existing businesses, realtors, bankers, develop- ers and businesses prospects. : What is the total as- The Kings Mountain Herald Database to help downtown sessed value for all down- town properties? Is the value going up or down and by how much? ‘What properties meet- ing specific criteria, such as a specific amount of floor space, are for sale or for rent? i How many square feet of retail, office, storage, public and other space is located downtown? What are the strengths and weaknesses in the business mix? Where are the strong or weak business clusters in the downtown?” The inventories and re- sulting database combined with surveys of customer ‘preferences’ and needs, business owner perspec- tives, and sales data from large national databases ~ will be the informational building blocks for the cre- ation of a concerted eco- nomic recruitment ahd incentive plan for the downtown. Based on this data, Mountaineer Partnership will create a profile of downtown customers and determine the geographic area from which the down- town draws most of its traffic. The profile of down-. town customers will then be compared with census, information from the downtown trade area to discover differences and similarities that will indi- cate business opportuni- ties. "The downtown data- TRIATHLON From Page 1 Gold Street, past Kings Mountain High on Phifer Road and back. All partici- pants must complete the race in 4 hours-15 minutes. Two competitors have al- ready broken the two-hour- 10-minutes record for the course. 2009 was a record- setting year. Justin Park, then 29, of €hapel Hill finished the race first in 2:07:56, fol- lowed by 31-year-old Kevin Lisska of Charlotte, who came in second overall with a time ‘of 2:08:37. Lisska beat the record first place finish time he set in 2007, crossing the finish line at 2:11:05. David Sokolofsky, of Wilmington, finished first in 2008 with an overall time of 12:14:44. Tt was just a few seconds shy of his first place finish in 2006 when Sokolofsky completed the course in 2:14:28. For the past three years, Stacey Richardson, 38, of Chapel Hill has led the women with a first place fin- ish time in 2009 of 2:24:49, in 2008 of 2:24:58 and in 2007 of 2:27:14. As of Friday, Lisska, Sokolofsky and Richardson had signed up to participate in Saturday's race. Locally, 18-year-old Joshua Bayle, of Bessemer City, and Eric Collins, 32, Liza Dellinger, 43, Ashley Harris, 42, Larry Hyde, 45, Drew Kinney, 41, George Patterson, 47, Melissa Phillips, 32, Alan Riggs, 19, and Jim Sotelo, 59, all of Kings Mountain, have signed up to compete. ; Athletes will be coming a grateful. To the EMT’s - Thanks for being there for my urgent need on 4-26-10. To the Kings Mountain Hospital & staff, the churches, my family and friends who prayed for me and for their concern - thanks so much. I'll always be Thanks you, Marilyn Tapley & a Si GR i ve 4 to Kings Mountain from as far away as New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Illinois, Alaska, Wisconsin, California, Pennsylvania and Florida to compete. The city will hold a spaghetti supper for participants and their families at 6 p.m. at the H. Lawrence Patrick Senior Center, 909 E. King Street. Over the Mountain has grown to become the quali- fying match for the USA Triathlon Mid-Atlantic Re- gional Championship, a step away from the USAT na- tional event. Over the Moun- tain has had a maximum cap of 500 competitors, but for the past two years, over: 500 have signed up to partici- pate. City Special Events Di- rector Ellis Noell said that they decided to raise the cap to 550 this year. compete with shopping centers base will help the Main Street manager truly assist local businesses and the City of Kings Mountain to manage “the downtown area more effectively," noted Gina Collias. The manager can serve as an advocate for renting and selling downtown property. : The downtown data- base will assist the com- munity, realtors, developers and new busi- nesses in efficient site se- lection. Finally, the downtown ditabase will be crucial for evaluating the current sup- ply of products and serv- ices which when combined with consumer demand will help determine busi- ness expansion and re- cruitment opportunities. These inventory and database efforts are part of a larger effort being led by the North Carolina Main Street Program staff to as- sist MPI with the develop- ment of a comprehensive economic development plan for the downtown. NC Main Street staff will facilitate. the Eco- nomic Vision Forum to be held June 10, where a di- verse group of community leaders will assist MPI in identifying economic driv- ers for our downtown. Interested parties may volunteer for the down- town market analysis team by calling Kings Mountain Main Street Program Man- ager Adam Hines at 704- 491-1226. Page 3A HB NEWS BRIEFS Dover YMCA to host 15th Community - Prayer Breakfast SHELBY-The Cleve- land County Family YMCA will host the 15th Annual YMCA Community Prayer Breakfast, Friday, May 21, at the Dover Foundation YMCA in Shelby. The keynote speaker this year will be Clayton King, a 1995 Presidential Scholar graduate of Gardner-Webb University. While at GWU, he received the Outstanding Male Graduate of the Year Award and served as presi- ~ dent of the Honors Club. He is the founder and . president of Crossroads Ministries and Crossroads Summer Camps, and the author of five books includ- ing "Dying To Live" with Harvest House Publishers, releasing June 1, 2010 na- tionwide. The public is invited to this breakfast event. The serving line will open at 6:30 a.m. with the program beginning at 7:15 a.m. Tick- ets are on sale now for $13 per person or $100 per table of eight. Seating is limited. Tickets may be purchased at the Dover Foundation YMCA, Kings Mountain Family YMCA and the Ruby C. Hunt YMCA. For more information call the YMCA at 704-484-9622. Neurologist to speak Neurologist Dr. Kevin Klein will answer questions about Parkinson's: Disease for the Parkinson's Support Group Tuesday, May 25, at 6:30 p.m. at the Life En- richment Center in Shelby, 103 T. R. Harris Drive. ° BUDGET From Page 1 ices, which the town must pay to have any aid from the county, has gone up to $200 per year. The City of Kings Moun- tain, which supplies water to the town, raised its rates (water up 15 percent, 35 per- cent sewer). Audit process fees have increased and the price of Internet software the town is required to have has also risen. Revenue has not. The new budget, which will be on display at town hall for 30 days, includes a general fund balance of $273,660, a cemetery fund balance of $4,800, a Powell - fund balance of $25,200 and a water-and-sewer fund bal- for your support HAMRICK Paid for by the committee to elect Steve Hamrick Thank you on May 4% For Coroner STEVE ance of $317,160. Property taxes remain at 29 cents per $100 assessed value of land and water and sewet taxes are set for nine cents per $100 assessed value of land, leaving taxes at 38 cents per $100 assessed value of property. The town has submitted a grant for up to $1 million to upgrade its existing waste- water treatment plant. Sides said that they received a let- ter of support from Rep. Tim Moore that was sent off with the grant. the Patriots Pres. and Mrs. Polk on display at inn Now - 6/11-First Lady of the United States of America, Sarah Childress Polk and North Car- olina's pride, President James Knox Polk-his- toric exhibition of the UNC law graduate, their receptions in the White House, a china exhibit of their dinner plate and teacup with saucer on display next to famed fa- vorite recipe, Hickory Nut Cake is on display at The Presidential Culinary Museum at The Inn of Bed & Breakfast, 301 Cleveland Avenue, Grover, 704- 937-2940, www.thein- nofthepatriots.com DOWNTOWN From Page 1 And, as long as they com- ply with federal, state and local laws, they are wel- come. “We look forward to working with them in the fu- ture,” Sides said, adding that ‘he hopes they can all work together for the betterment of the town. On Tuesday morning, the mayor said he met with ‘Duke Power to get price quotes on the possibility of adding new decorative lights along Main Street. “We've got a few things (in the works),” he said — things that are sure to bring an extra touch of life to downtown. The Main Street build- ings, many of which had - been vacant for years, have housed Internet cafes and other shops offering sweep- stakes games as a “market- ing tool” to sell what businessmen have said are their primary goods — time on the Internet or phone cards. Since they set up shop last April, the stores have at- tracted more business to downtown than the city has seen in years and have added a few jobs. Mayor Sides said that his meeting with the business- men last week was “positive and productive”. The raise in privilege li- cense fees takes effect July Ist. 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