Basnight-Inspired ‘B&B’ Concerns Hyde Countians
State-owned 14-room upscale lodge would compete with local inns and restaurants
RALEIGH (By Don Carrington, Carolina Journal Online) — A plan to use taxpayers’ money to turn a decaying former pump house and no-frills hunting and fishing lodge into a classy state-owned bed-and-breakfast inn got its start when Senate President Pro Tem Marc Basnight put his blessing on the project two years ago.
The State of North Carolina acquired the dilapidated and unsafe Lake Mattamuskeet Lodge, and the surrounding six acres in Hyde County, from the federal government in June 2006. Two years later, a state agency released a plan for the facility calling for it to become “operationally more like a bed and breakfast,” instead of the primitive facility it had been for years.
Now some local citizens say the state-subsidized hostelry is a threat to nearby businesses, especially inns and restaurants.
RALEIGH (By Don Carrington, Carolina Journal Online) — A plan to use taxpayers’ money to turn a decaying former pump house and no-frills hunting and fishing lodge into a classy state-owned bed-and-breakfast inn got its start when Senate President Pro Tem Marc Basnight put his blessing on the project two years ago.
The State of North Carolina acquired the dilapidated and unsafe Lake Mattamuskeet Lodge, and the surrounding six acres in Hyde County, from the federal government in June 2006. Two years later, a state agency released a plan for the facility calling for it to become “operationally more like a bed and breakfast,” instead of the primitive facility it had been for years.
Now some local citizens say the state-subsidized hostelry is a threat to nearby businesses, especially inns and restaurants.
posted by BP News Bureau | 9:48 AM
2 Comments:
NC has long offered cabin lodging in state parks in the mountains. Other states, to include TN, KY and OH, have created 'resort parks' out of state parks, complete with fancy lodging.
I believe they instead of hurting local businesses and economies, these places have been a big help to local economies. Hopefully the state has researched that experience, but the press should also.
The area this would be located has been economically-depressed for ages, so I think it's worth a try.
Maybe a local hospitality businesscould be given a contract to run it.
When is it the government's responsibility to own a B-&-B lodge though? This is socialism. If the state wants to do this, they need to set up a public-private partnership and let a private owner or private business run the lodge.
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