With the Danville City Council recently passing plans for Tax Increment Financing Districts along the Voorhees Street Corridor, Mayor Rickey Williams, Jr says the main thing to focus on is the process has begun. While the Goodwill Building at Gilbert and Fairchild will be empty after it moves to the old Eagle site at Voorhees and Bowman, Mayor Williams says, this whole process is going to draw positive attention.
AUDIO: In a sense you’re filling once space but leaving another open, however there are four other places that are completely empty that will be filled with new things, and that’s what I’m exited out. And when people start seeing that new buildings are occupied, that creates energy and more things come.
The mayor says, the list of changes the TIF districts will bring is a great step forward, starting with the Head Start early childhood center going into the old Social Security building, and more.
AUDIO: They’ll be a new restaurant going to where the old Dairy Queen was back in the day. We have a bank that will be filled with medical offices, and then a housing company that will actually be going into one of the other banks. Oh, the other thing I forgot that’s really great news is that New Life Church of Faith, in partnership with one of their former members, is going to be opening a grocery store called Heavenly Square Groceries in the former Save-a-Lot building.
Mayor Williams says the New Life Church of Faith project will help with a food desert issue along the Voorhees corridor. He also says some parties have already expressed interest in the soon-to-be vacant Goodwill site at Gilbert and Fairchild.
