There was a time when the citizens of Cape Charles loved the concrete plant. In 2014, Governor Terry McAuliffe came to Cape Charles and awarded Bayshore Concrete Products a $150,000 grant in return for creating 135 jobs.
Bayshore Concrete Products, at the time a subsidiary of Skanska USA and producer of quality precast concrete products, invested $4 million to expand its operation in the Town of Cape Charles. The company’s investment in harbor infrastructure improvements allowed Bayshore to precast larger concrete components and ship to customers for transportation and major infrastructure projects.
The support for the plant also came from local entities. In December the Town of Cape Charles provided Bayshore Concrete a “stimulus grant” that refunded machinery and tools taxes it would have paid on the infrastructure improvements.
The total tax relief package for Bayshore from the town and the county was over $200,000.
“The Town of Cape Charles is happy to participate in this project by providing a significant amount of funding as a local match to the grant,” said Dora Sullivan, Mayor of Cape Charles. “The Town Council and I are pleased with this initiative to grow the local economy and we look forward to additional opportunities to develop businesses that would benefit from our deepwater harbor on the Chesapeake Bay.”
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How dare you bring up history in this time of crisis. Terrible things are going to happen to the noble citizens of Cape Charles and Northampton County. The noise is going to be awful and the smells completely untenable. How can anyone be able to break par or drive down the road in a golf cart under those conditions? It will probably make us take the keys away from our 12-years old. How is my wife going to make her yoga class if she has to drive them for ice cream? And then the extra calories from being tempted by the ice cream is really just too much. I hope the members of the City Council are pleased with their obvious lack of understanding modern life.
Do you realize that picture took place in 2014? That is practically the 20th Century! They didn’t hardly have smart phones in those days, or at least they didn’t have them available for our elementary school children. Things have changed SO MUCH since then. We have to evolve or die. It is that simple. And what they have done is to take a prudent tack based on history rather than the more modern approach such as groupthink.
I am so angry I think I will probably cancel my pedicure, even though it helps with making my golf shoes more comfortable. Once my pedicurists gets wind of this I just know they will learn who runs Cape Charles. It is a new day and it is OUR TIME!
BTW, if you did not get my flavor, this is sarcasm. Maybe just not that good.