2021 in Critique: Business to the future

The upcoming of Craig will be designed by the current, and, with the coal business about to exit stage still left, the new figures and developments on the enterprise scene drove great deserved desire for Moffat County audience.

It did not start off in 2021, but Frank and Kerry Moe’s exertion to bring an outside-themed searching and browsing experience to the largely abandoned Centennial Shopping mall remained an merchandise of desire and enhancement this calendar year.

A important contingency on which that prepare was dependent was the acceptance of an city renewal authority in Craig, termed, properly, the Craig Urban Renewal Authority. That system, which is an settlement between taxing bodies on which land sits to credit score back again to a developer the potential house tax raise that comes from improved house and the subsequent elevated property values so that the developer can increase the home, was finalized mid-calendar year. The CURA board accepted the Moes’ ask for for tax increment funding for the Yampa Valley Journey Middle in Oct.

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The CURA alone is indicative of a part of the town of Craig’s initiatives to be enterprise-welcoming. There are two urban renewal locations, one downtown and one particular all-around the location of the mall. Both equally have the prospect for developers and present genuine estate owners to acquire funding to strengthen residence within just the traces drawn and accepted by the CURA.

Nonetheless, one more metropolis work to support out organizations was nixed late this calendar year, as the outgoing city council made a decision to finish the 3-12 months-outdated Tiny Enterprise Grant amid issues of its legitimacy and legality. The foreseeable future of the compact-time grant program, which awarded…