As if downtown Hendersonville isn’t economically developed enough, city council approved a four-month study of Seventh Avenue. The consultant is charged with:
- Establishing strategic direction and priorities of redevelopment within the district.
- Developing financing and incentives options to encourage private investment in the district.
- Evaluating the cost and benefits associated with financing tools/incentives including possible expansion of the Historic Seventh Avenue District.
On a related topic, the city wants to corral buskers into street corners. Perhaps the council members have a thing for four-way cacophony, or maybe a spike in jay-walking is needed to boost city revenues. Police Captain Bruce Simonds observed a proliferation of street players following the city’s lifting of a ban on them. No generalizations are allowed to extrapolate this isolated instance of deregulation to anything else.
