Local economy shows signs of improvement

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Work continued this week to extensively renovate the former King's Building in the city's downtown area. When complete, it'll become the home of a new retail store, which will hire approximately a dozen employees in the local area.

As work began this week to refurbish a city landmark for a new retail store, local officials continue to see encouraging signs that Mountain Home's economic outlook is improving.

"Just in the past two years, it seems that the economy is picking up and things are happening," said city growth and development director Paula Riggs.

That observation follows a significant jump in requests from businesses and industries looking at places like Mountain Home for room to expand.

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I love to hear that new things are happening in Mountain Home and there will be more jobs and more places to shop.

What I don't like to hear are things like -

We were in Sears last week and he said that he wanted to enlarge his store out into his parking lot and that the City denied him. Sears sits so far back that, if you don't know it is there, you miss the store driving past it. I think they would be able to carry a lot more things if he had more room. I wonder what that is all about.

-- Posted by yniashi on Thu, Jun 21, 2012, at 10:58 AM

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