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Main Street team touts downtown potential
‘Revolutionary’ district ripe for growth
By EMILY WEAVER
Editor
Downtown: Kings ‘Mountain is ripe for
growth and this garden sprouts with great po-
tential. The Main Street "dream team" finished
up its four-day visit last week with commenda-
tions and ‘recommendations for that growth
using the Main Street Center's four-point ap-
proach - organization, design, promotion and
economic restructuring.
Downtown received checks and minuses in
all four areas.
- Liz Parham, who manages the North Car-
olina Main Street Center, said that organization
is about "building human and financial re-'
sources within the context of a common vision".
Promotion is about marketing the "assets of your
local community". Design is "improving the
physical appearance of the community" and
way we think about downtown today to be the
most economically viable it can be," she said.
According to statistics sent to the Main Street
team by Mountaineer Partnership Inc. Director
Adam Hines, $742,403 of public and private
funds were invested into downtown Kings
Mountain over the last year; also, six buildings
have been renovated and two facades have been
improved.
Parham suggested the city is on the right
track. She was the first team member to speak at
the public presentation Thursday night at the
Kings Mountain Woman's Clubhouse. Her focus
was on "promotion".
Promoting a "Revolutionary" down-
town
"Promotions must be authentic," she said.
"They must promote your assets. They must be
What's unique about the city? i
"You have a rich Revolutionary War history,
extremely unique to North Carolina. You have
arts, cultural and entertainment development for
Kings Mountain and you have outdoor recre-
ational opportunities related to the parks,"
Parham said, noting those three things as "most
unique".
The three types of promotion that she fo-
cused on were special events, retail promotion,
and image building.
Parham said that the city has done a "phe-
nomenal job" with special events. She named
the Over the Mountain Triathlon, the Real to
Reel International Film Festival (produced by
the Cleveland County Arts Council) and MPI's
Mountaineer Christmas as examples.
"Some of the events are certainly more au-
thentic than others," she said. "They're attract-
Breakdown by
the numbers
Page 7A - Avg. retail
sales in downtown -
$13.5 million; within five
miles - $136 million;
Potential - $170 million.
There are 16 vacant
buildings in the MSD that
house a potential 3.7%
return on investment.
economic restructuring is about reforming "the
orique to Kings Mousteln® See POTENTIAL, 4A
— Painting a new face on downtown
Hendricks to retire
{ By ELI ZABETH STEWARY
His friends tease Dr. Paul Hen-
dricks, Jr. about the "Dear John"
letter they got in the mail but the
67-year-old Kings Mountain den-
tist, who is retiring Jan. 2, 2011,
says his patients don't have to
worry. That "thank you letter did- :
n't mean "goodbye." :
Hendricks says there will be no
, interruption in his practice as "I am
extremely fortunate to-leave my
practice under the direction of a
young, talented and experienced
dentist, Andy Hollifield, who will-
assume the duties of providing den-
tal care to our patients on Jan. 2,
2011." Hendricks said his staff will
be staying in the practice with Dr.
Hollifield. !
"But I will keep my license up- Dr. Paul Hendricks with his patient Trish Latz.
dated," he said. He plans to con-
tinue to volunteer in a charitable ticipating in a similar program in Gastonia in Septem-
prograny of the N.C. Dental Society ber. ;
called the Mission of Mercy A practicing dentist in Kings Mountain for 39
(MOM) and Dental Access Days years, Hendricks built his office at 203 Juniper Street
(DAD) which offers free denfal behind the clinic where his father, the late Dr. Paul
service to the indigent at Isast twice [lendricks, St., practiced medicine for many years at
a month. On a recent trip to Sylva Hendricks, Durham, Lee Clinic on West Mountain
he and other volunteer dentists and ~~ Street. :
hygienists saw 300 patients suffer- "I really didn't know what I wanted to do after col-
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Jack Pruitt, of Kings Mountain, applies a new coat of paint to a building on
Grover’s Main Street Tuesday.
Grover’s Main Street
gets splash of color
By EMILY WEAVER
Editor
Volunteers working with Grover's
Beautification Committee have been busy
sprucing up Main Street this week.
Councilman J.D. Ledford, chairman of -
the town's beautification committee, said
that they started painting the first building
last week. Soon, many of the Main Street
buildings will have new splashes of color.
The first building, where Cyberline is
located, has been painted white like the
small building, to its left. The-next store
front is expected to be yellow, Ledford
said.
Another one will be painted a grayish-
brown hue and another one - gray, sepa-
rating each store front into facades that
Pop.
"They will all be solid colors," Ledford
said.
The paint will get rid of some of the
"rusty red" color on the buildings now, he
added.
One of the downtown tenants may be
willing to help pay for a new awning to go
on one of the facades as well, Ledford
said.
As of Monday night, two buildings -
have been repainted, with hopes that all of
the buildings will be done within a week.
Ledford said that he spoke with Zena
Johnson, who, along with her husband
Don, owns nine of the properties in the
Main Street business district. The John-
sons, he said, have been great to help out
with this beautification effort. They ‘also
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Kings Mountain staff will be par-
City to run
lines out
to Galilee
By ELIZABETH STEWART
Staff writer
Four more homes in the Galilee
Community with failing septic tanks
* are slated to receive sewer improve-
ments from the city following action
by Kings Mountain City Council Tues-
day night.
Planning Director Steve Killian
presented the request for an amended
Community Block Grant '"concen-
trated need project" during a public
hearing. He said the city has completed
projects at seven homes but there are
remaining funds in the $700,000
CDBG project.
"We have identified a low moderate
income area adjacent to the original
project area that contains four homes
with a history of failing septic tanks,"
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of $100 or less per item, school instruc-
tional materials of $300 or less per item;
sports and recreation equipment of $50
or less per item; computers of $3500 or
less per item and computer supplies of
$250 or less per item are exempt from
‘sales taxes.
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