This article was originally published in the Asheville Watchdog.
Citing wage concerns, diminished property taxes and the potential loss of the city’s last remaining industrial development site to retail, the Economic Development Coalition for Asheville-Buncombe County has opposed locating a proposed Costco in the Enka Commerce Park.
“By every measure — wages, tax base, and land use — the rezoning of Enka Commerce Park for Costco is simply not in Asheville’s best long-term interest,” Clark Duncan, the EDC’s executive director, wrote in an email to all seven City Council members in late October…