The News & Observer is reporting on the Hyde County Mattamuskeet lodge that has drawn scrutiny from Carolina Journal. From the N&O:
The state has spent about $5.7 million on building repairs since 2007, and the report estimates that an additional $8.3 million is needed to complete the renovation and reopen the lodge. A previous study had looked at the option of the state running the facility but determined that “the annual cost to operate the lodge would exceed income, in part because “a sophisticated and targeted marketing effort and business operation would be essential.”
The Carolina Journal, a publication of the conservative John Locke Foundation, wrote in January that “the idea is fraught with problems, not the least of which is a method for disposing of waste generated by visitors and guests at the lodge.”
“Turning the lodge over to a private operator is problematic, as the ‘legal and financial structures required to achieve such a partnership are still being developed,’” the Journal wrote, citing the January report.
You can read the entire N&O story here.
Then read Don Carrington’s reporting referenced by the N&O.
