From http://keepannagrowing.com

To: City of Anna residents

From: Nancy Underwood, owner and developer of Brookshire’s Grocery shopping center

This letter is to make it clear that no other person including any city official, can speak for Brookshire’s or my company with regard to what we will build in Anna. The right to sell beer or wine in Brookshire’s Grocery was approved by the city and its residents and the law was in place when Brookshire Grocery Store joined Underwood in its commitment to build a retail project in Anna. If alcohol is voted out, I will have to study the entire situation.

The store has been designed by architects and fully bid based on an entire area allocated to beer and wine sales. Taking this out would require all the work done so far to be stopped and significantly revised; furthermore, all the financial proformas and projections will have to be re-done and re-evaluated.

The work you see being done now at the corner of 455 and 367 is the result of contracts that I signed last summer and only involve preparation of the site. I have not signed any contracts that require me to go any further with this project beyond paving the roads and parking areas, the only thing I have already committed to doing.

Six months ago I had a number of restaurants interested in the project. I have not had a single call in the last three months. I even hired Staubach Retail Company to try and bring some serious users into this project. They have had no success. Everyone that I have talked to about coming to Anna has stopped discussions pending this election.

Please think long and hard about this issue before you vote. I have invested a lot of money in Anna. We all have a lot at stake. The residential market is very weak. Furthermore, gas prices are another big problem working against Anna right now as well. None of us want to see Anna become a ghost town.

I have talked to a major hospital group about buying the land I own between the retail center and Rattan Elementary. It would be a great area for a Medical Campus. They are very focused on whether the city will go forward with its plan to develop the city park next to this land and develop the 5.5 acres that I gave to the city for a hike and bike trail next to the park and between the medical campus and retail center. I do not believe the city will have the funds to do this if the law is changed, because the city cash flow will be severely, negatively impacted. There is much at stake here. Please vote to keep Anna growing. Thank you so much for taking the time to read my letter to you and consider these facts. We are all in this together.

the details (or a link please) that ties your subject to the letter at hand.  I can assume what you are referring to (edited to protect the innocent*), but I hate to assume.



*not sure they should be protected though!

Is there some way that Ms. underwood's letter to the Anna residents could be printed off as fliers and passed in each neighborhood?  Let everyone know the cons of voting "NO"

Copy me on that PM if you would please.

Jamie

Quote from: zdarame on November 03, 2007, 02:50:49 PM

Is there some way that Ms. underwood's letter to the Anna residents could be printed off as fliers and passed in each neighborhood?  Let everyone know the cons of voting "NO"

Flyers were passed out to every registered voter in Anna who did not sign the petition today.

Yep, but they didn't have her letter in it.  The letter is posted on the website.  There were several good letters, I particularly liked the one from the paster of Calvary Baptist.

I know you are not going to sway everyone, but attempting to sway those who use the moral argument is mute.  To them the only thing that matters is the banishment of all alcohol at the expense of everything else.  Kinda like UGA (he was willing to pay MUCH more taxes to have the alcohol gone).  No sense arguing with that type.

Now all the fence sitters are a different story.  I think the material was presented very professionally and without all the rhetoric and mud slinging.  I like the points made on Gonzales and the liquor companies in Dallas County.

Quote from: Glodowg on November 03, 2007, 07:41:11 PM

Kinda like UGA (he was willing to pay MUCH more taxes to have the alcohol gone).

I handed UGA a packet today, personally.

OH MY!!! Did he recognize you. What did he say. We need Details!!!