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Nature Nates parking and mailbox @ VLCIA 2016-11-15



5:30PM today,
Nature Nate’s parking lot expansion and the never-ending mailbox controversy are back
on the agenda for the Development Authority.

Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority

Tuesday, November 15, 2016, 5:30 pm

Development Authority Conference Room/103 Roosevelt Drive

Monthly Meeting Agenda

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Videos: South Georgia Alliance and BRAT @ VLCIA 2016-10-18



The Development Authority is

twice as under budget as it is under revenue
,
and they expect tax collections to catch up in January.

National Manufacturing Day
had great local and national media coverage.
Fussell Tire

wants to build a warehouse with a non-coforming face towards St. Augustine Road
;
the board sent back a look askance.
They’re also

still feuding with the Post Office
about mail delivery to Nature Nate, the only tenant in Miller Business Park.

Prospective businesses
want to see communities that

“have their arms wrapped around millenials”
,
including bike trails.
Hm, what about

water trails
, asked WWALS president John S. Quarterman?

They

lacked a quorum

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South Georgia Alliance and BRAT @ VLCIA 2016-10-18



Yes, the Industrial Authority is meeting today at 5:30 PM
about BRAT, South Georgia Alliance, and
National Manufacturing Day
,
before it meets

tomorrow at 11:00 AM about VSU bonds
.

Here’s today’s agenda:

Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority

Tuesday, October 18, 2016, 5:30 pm

Development Authority Conference Room/103 Roosevelt Drive

Monthly Meeting Agenda

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Videos: Under budget but low tax collection, Nature Nate ahead, PO Box Woes @ VLCIA 2016-09-20

Authority under budget, Nature Nate’s ahead of schedule, USPS contentious, manufacturing week, and WWALS water trails: all packed into a brief meeting last Tuesday of the Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority.




CPA Tom Davis
said the Development Authority is
under budget but tax collection is also slow, with no new funds expected until January.


Existing Industry Coordinator Stan Crance announced that

Nature Nate’s is beyond projections, now up to 25 jobs and $3 million capital investment and needs more parking.
They’d also like to move their postal mail delivery from a downtown post office box to a local mailbox.
But Nature Nate’s is the only tenant of Miller Business Park,
and USPS requires central box units for any business park.
This would require modifying the roundabout “just in case any other businesses were to locate out there”.
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Business Plan @ VLCIA 2016-09-20

It’s again 5:30 today. The day before yesterday

they changed it to noon
,
and yesterday



they changed it back to 5:30 PM
,
but they didn’t fix that in
the online agenda.

Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority

Tuesday, September 20, 2016, 12 noon

Development Authority Conference Room/103 Roosevelt Drive

Monthly Meeting Agenda

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Again no new business prospects @ VLCIA 2016-08-16

That could be good because it makes them focus on existing industries.



Here’s the agenda.

Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority

Tuesday, August 16, 2016 5:30 p.m.

Development Authority Conference Room/103 Roosevelt Drive

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New Marketing person @ VLCIA 2016-07-19

Tonight at 5:30 PM they welcome
new marketing person
Meghan Schunhoff, whose



linkedin profile

says she also works for
The Triangle Furniture Football Friday Night Radio Show- Black Crow Media
and she previously worked for
South Georgia Medical Center.

She is listed on the Development Authority’s Our Team web page as Marketing & Research Manager, with no picture or other information yet.
Maybe it’s her job to put that there….

Meanwhile, thanks to Lu Williams for posting
the agenda.
FYI, they didn’t meet last month.

Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority

Tuesday, July 19, 2016 5:30 p.m.

Development Authority Conference Room/103 Roosevelt Drive

Monthly Meeting Agenda

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Nature Nates and GEDA @ VLCIA 2016-05-17



On tonight’s Development Authority agenda,
I’m guessing GEDA is

Georgia Economic Development Association
.
Nature Nate, you may recall, is the first occupant of Miller Business Park.
I continue to suggest the Development Authority put solar panels on much of that
unused business park land and turn the business parks into profit centers instead
of continual money sinks to service all those bonds that funded them.

Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority

Tuesday, May 17, 2016 5:30 p.m.

Development Authority Conference Room/103 Roosevelt Drive

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Project Max and many others 6PM this evening @ VLCIA 2016-04-19

Is the mysterious Project Max a glass container plant as everyone seems to think?

An agenda suddenly appeared

It’s on

the agenda
that suddenly appeared on the Development Authority’s website
this afternoon after Gretchen called to ask where it was.
She will be there with the LAKE video camera.

Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 5:30 p.m.

Development Authority Conference Room/103 Roosevelt Drive

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Videos: Project Max and more at Development Authority @ VLCIA 2016-02-16



They said almost nothing last month about
Project Max, so we don’t know for sure if for example it is really a glass container company.
They meet again tonight. Actually, that one is cancelled; they meet next April 19th.

At the end, Gretchen

spoke about:


  1. Ham and Eggs Show
    2016-02-17
  2. the WWALS Withlacoochee and Little River Workshop at VSU 2016-02-27
  3. the South Georgia Growing Local food conference went well, and led to
    a planning session led by Charlie Barnes about local food planning 2016-03-31.

Dr. Noll of WACE said he was there to “harrass” Continue reading