The distance between north and south in our 430 square miles isn’t that great, maybe ten miles, but for some magic reason all new businesses plop down in the vicinity of Harbor View. It’s almost as if there’s a wall running across the city. Downtown gets bedrooms and south of that farms. This week another part of the nation’s defense system pops up in Harbor View. Cobham, producer of various sophisticated military and civil systems, will open doors in 2010 and may add 200 hundred employees over time.
It makes one wonder what would happen if zoning allowed one big defense business to build out in the farmland of our south. Would we see similar growth down there, stores, theatres, gas stations, another hub of defense works?
Cobham will produce advanced composite products for the aerospace and defense industry, with a focus on high-volume production of advanced aircraft engine components, aircraft and rotorcraft structural products, unmanned aerial vehicle components and missile and munitions products for the U.S. defense industry. With all that military stuff up north you’d think we were getting ready for another war. If true, North Suffolk may already be in someone’s bombsite.
3 comments:
North Suffolk is the one and only Suffolk. Just look where the jobs, money, and attention of council is at. Then there is the City Manager who knows where the money is!
With so much going on up North, is there any question why Old Downtown on Washington and Main is slowly dying off? Time to pull the plug on the old girl and let her die a quiet death! No more pandering to the old boo-birds downtown and squandering money like the Hotel, SCCA, and so on.
The fellow writing that last comment will just not give up on pointing the SCCA and the Hotel mistakes to the door. He and I have been against those projects from the beginning. But we lost and are living with it.
I guess Bob felt so strongly about his response that he had to say it twice.
I also agree that these and other mistakes by our lovely Mayor and others on council must not be forgotten, nor should anyone miss an opportunity to point them out, too!
North Suffolk is where the Hotel/Conference Center should have gone to, but then there are the political animals that always get a say about such things. It is also true that the old downtown is faultering and if it does not get more public money it will go down hill. By no means do I think more public money should be spent on downtown bone-doggles like we have seen in the past, it shold rise o fall on it's own!
I do agree with the first comment and hope Bob does too.
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