Repairs and new construction have been completed for the work on the Central Park Fountain. Excel Paving completed the final touches, and the town has approved the invoice for payment.
The fountain now boasts an aesthetically pleasing radius trench/slot drain that follows the curve of the architecture. This element eliminates the large basin that proved problematic, and somewhat hard to clean and maintain.
The Mirror is in the process of finding out when the fountain will go live with actual water flow:
Love this.
Why?
That should have tourists flocking to Cape Charles from all over the globe just to see that fountain in action which is going to bring in BIG BUCK$ to Cape Charles, which will make the fountain into a real moneymaker for the town.
Tear it down before someone identifies it as a racist phallus.
When the old fountain was replaced with this garbage, is when Cape Charles lost its charm.
But let’s spend spend spend.
Sooner or later someone has too paid the bill. And when the time comes. You can bet, the town manager and the town council will leave the area and the citizens will have to paid for their incompetence.
No body is coming for the miniature water park in Cape Charles.
This town is a joke!
Well, of course, it is all going to depend on the marketing strategy the town chooses to employ, getting together a focus group to determine such things as the target groups the advertising blitz should be aimed at.
As Scotiagirl, who is perceptive, has pointed out, its resemblance to a phallus or maybe a dildo gives the town a unique marketing perspective that other towns with fountains that do not like a dildo do not have, which in today’s competitive world, is an edge the town most certainly can capitalize on, and then, yes, into Cape Charles the BIG BUCK$ will indeed roll, with tour buses bringing in the crowds from all over the nation and world who will stare in wonder and take selfies with the fountain, the likes of which can be found nowhere else in the world but Cape Charles.
Well, maybe I won’t sell house in Cape Charles. Just maybe, maybe I’ll pay higher property taxes, and pay for higher water rates and pay for the new Taj Mahal. Oh what joy!! The Great Pumpkin will save us all!!!
I’m seeing it different.
While its uniqueness and crowd appeal may indeed make your house more valuable, I’m seeing the infusion of tourist dollars rolling in driving your property taxes down to the point of where the town will have so much extra money that it will be giving dividends to all the property owners the way people in Alaska get royalty checks from oil, so there is a real American win-win for you, and you have to think that a town as progressive and savvy as Cape Charles would have done the marketing study with the focus groups BEFORE selecting the dildo as emblamatic of the spirit of Cape Charles.
So, they are doing it for you, looking out for your future, and how many other towns can say that?
Not many, I would bet.
And consider that the Cape Charles Mirror is an international publication read all over the world, so just think of all free advertising the town is getting for the statue.
Course, it may exacerbate parking problems on Mason Ave, and there may be a lot more golf carts flying around, but that is the price of progress in Cape Charles, and if people like capitalism, that is a price they should be happy to pay.
So, I guess I’m missing something? Fountains are supposed to have and display water? This isn’t rocket science. And before final payments are made, would it make sense to see if it works? Guess I just woke up on the wrong side of a common sense bed this morning.