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Proposed Waterfront Shopping Center - PR piece followed by local citizen's rebuttal

I wrote a rebuttal to the piece CenterCal's PR firm sent to the New York Times, promoting their proposed waterfront retail shopping center.

“Beach City Enlists Private Partner to Rejuvenate Pier” is as slick as the video CenterCal produced hyping their hope-to-be-latest shopping center, and trying to drum up outside investor interest to rescue us all.

In my rebuttal, I outline the underlying problem this will exacerbate, the faulty economic assumptions on which their expected increase in consumer demand is base and describe what will happen to our authentic ocean-front amenities.

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I’m excluded from several local ‘community’ social media groups and ‘public’ meetings because access is controlled by those who back this project. I invite you to share this article so this view may be heard. Thank you.

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