THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, March 10, 1996 TAG: 9603080010
SECTION: COMMENTARY PAGE: J4 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 29 lines
Many people in business, including myself, don't look forward to competition. It's only human nature to want it all to ourselves. It doesn't work that way, however. Competition makes one wake up and try to do a better job.
When a company is willing to invest $200 million of its own money - enabling the city of Norfolk to have a shopping center which will be a real asset - this is a tremendous opportunity for our entire region. People will come from many places. People go where they are wanted and serviced. Nordstrom and Dillard's offer that quality of merchandise which customers want.
Nothing that the Norfolk City Council and mayor or the Department of Economic Development has ever done will be as beneficial to the whole of Hampton Roads as the completion of the MacArthur Center and the business that will follow.
Competition makes things happen.
JOHN B. BARNETT
Norfolk, Feb. 23, 1996 by CNB