February 19, 2025

12 thoughts on “The Slow March of Gentrification

  1. This article is so offensive on so many levels. The writer of this article reminds me of a child wanting attention. The child wants attention so badly that he/she says outrageous things and makes ridiculous accusations hoping to get reactions by whatever means possible. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. We first came to Cape Charles in the mid 90s. About 70 percent of the homes were unoccupied dilapidated at that time, many of which had been neglected for 80 plus years. At least 60 plus percent of downtown was vacant, windows boarded, etc. The reason we have the current vibrant Cape Charles is the sweat, tears, hope, and people taking a risk of investing to bring the town back to life. We were some of those people. Bruce and Carol Evans were some of those people. My other half pleaded with me not to spend my last red cent to bring a condemned property back to life. He said “even if you get it fixed up and advertise it, who in the hell would want to vacation in such a rundown town?” This article just exhibits complete ignorance about the revitalization of Cape Charles. And no, we are not from up north, and neither is Dickey Foster, the one who really dreamed big and started the ball rolling when he invested in Bay Creek. Please stop with the ignorant ridiculous racial provoking comments. From my standpoint I’d love to see you go back to wherever you came from, we don’t need or want such bull**** in Cape Charles. This is a nice community, I don’t know how, when or why you landed here but please go back to wherever.

    Note: You seem mad. Thank you!

    1. That’s a lot of assumptions. Maybe the topic is more nuanced than your view. Well, you know what they say about assumptions. I think I would rather live in Cape Charles as it is, than live in what ever town your dreaming of.

  2. Uh, not to be contrary here with you, but with respect to your comment, “I don’t know how, when or why you landed here but please go back to wherever,” I have read the article a couple of times and it was my impression from actually reading the article, which is simply one person’s perspective on an issue of obvious importance to the people of the Shore, that the author was actually from Cape Charles and was living here before you arrived.

    I could be wrong, but if you really read the article calmly and dispassionately, which is an adult thing to do, you really do get the impression that this person has actually lived in Cape Charles for some period of time, again, before you arrived.

    So it stands to reason then, does it not, that they might see things differently than you do. you being more or less a recent arrival with an agenda of your own, which perhaps clouds or fogs your own vision just a bit, and has you lashing out at this person for simply stating what is there opinion.

  3. And I know this is off-topic, somewhat, anyway, but Debbie Garner’s comment above that “The writer of this article reminds me of a child wanting attention, the child wants attention so badly that he/she says outrageous things and makes ridiculous accusations hoping to get reactions by whatever means possible” so reminds me of Joe Biden’s executive assistant autocrat Karmela Harris on Meet the Press on 11 September 2022 screeching and moaning and shrieking and weeping and wailing about abortion, wanting attention so badly that she was saying the most outrageous things and making ridiculous accusations hoping to get reactions by whatever means possible.

    Boy, that describes Karmela Harris on Meet the Press on 11 September 2022 so well, to a tee, actually, that I wanted to thank Debbie Garner for bringing that to our attention with such vivid descriptive phraseology.

  4. I’d like it if the first person to have had a gun held to their head, forcing them to sell to please come forward.
    What!!???!! It was all arms length open market transactions? Wha!!!!!!!!!???????????

    But yes, please do go back to the old days of no tax base whatsoever, no jobs and a filthy, empty town of run down vacant homes,…..because that is far more ‘dignified’ than having to deal with ughhhhh people who are not like you.

    BTW? Twas your local hardware store owner, a Chucker from forever who sold out about half the damn homes in Cape Chuck.

    Note: Ummmm….not the point, but you go ahead and do you.

  5. I still believe the selling of the school in town was the beginning of the end as far as keeping the diversity and community in mind. Not enough money you say but we managed to spend on so many other things such as the Bank of America building for the library. There was plenty of room for that in the old school as well as inside basketball during the winter months. So many parents came together to build that playground and the same would have rallied to keep the school. A civic center, the library, maybe the police station right there by the park! Lots of room and many possibilities. It represented locals and the community. Now it is for sale for a few million, rent has risen, so much for affordable housing.

  6. 8% money for a investment property is going to not just cool off, its going to shut out new entrants to short term rental market in town.

    If you bought before 2020 and locked in or refinanced at or below 3% you aren’t going anywhere in the next decade unless it is in to assisted living.

  7. ATTACHMENT B, SWOT REVIEW, 5 YEAR STRATEGIC PLAN 2014 – 2018

    Adopted by the Board of Supervisors on April 8, 2014 with Updated Status Reports as of 1/23/2015 – Katie H. Nunez, County Administrator and With Modifications as made by the Board on February 23, 2015, as part of the initial Board of Supervisors retreat on March 10, 2012:

    Threats to the County:

    * “No Growth Crowd” – perception of the county; few landowners for the majority of the land

    * Perception of “not business friendly”

    * Retirees/groups who don’t want change

    * Well-organized special interest groups

    * Impacts of belief that county is not business friendly; county has excessive regulations, etc.

  8. Not a thing can be had in town. What? All those shops? Yes, you can’t buy food (affordably), gas, or clothes. Economy has destroyed mom and pop, but the big replacements were held away. How far away is the purchase of clothes?

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