On Wilmington, I agree is is nice the way it is.....this is one of the reasons that drew me to the town (we looked but did not purchase) But as that is multiplied, town councils change, attitudes change, land values change, life changes. If hotel rooms go up from $80 a night (guessing based on my last stay) at LP....to $125, they are bound to increase at Wilmington from $60 a night to $80....and then that changes the income level and profitability...which draws more folks in trying to turn a profit.


Back to the conference center.....it TOO will be a boom for little Wilmington and may begin the ball rolling. I will stereotype for one minute, please allow. A bridal show is held where 3000 women between the ages of 20-60 attend. If they drove to LP for a bridal show...they got cash. They have cars, because they did not fly into the conference. Most will stay in LP shopping, but if 10% ventured, that is 150 more cars, 300 more shoppers, sightseers in Wilmington. That is big. That is money. "this place is so cute, I am going to tell my brother...he is looking for a place in the mountains"

Having attended many conferences at conference centers...Bosses sometimes like to say "lets get out of this scene and get real local food" Eyes roll. 60 of us pile in cars and drive 10 miles to the "real" area resturants. Forgetting the fact that the planning committee picked the conference spot partially because you can walk to everything. Your close local area will be Wilmington. Remember expense accounts are purchasing the food---not skiers trying to tweek out an extra weekend skiing by living on the cheep. Watch prices rise.


Trusting I am dead wrong and it snows 500 inches this year.....

NPN wrote:

highpeaksdrifter wrote: I:)skiing wrote: Then again, the town of Wilmington may get with it and start expandingto a greater degree. The problem is dynamic, not linear. Which makes prognostication so difficult, expecially at 3:30 am in the summer with snow nowhere in sight. I hope they never get with it the way you are implying. I like it the way it is. Here, here ( or hear, hear as I got corrected last year ( but still not sure I agree )) BIG TIME!!!

Speaking of Wilmington, those on here with little kids might wanna check out Santa's workshop in Wilmington. It's a fun, quaint little place that kids love, after all.....Santa lives there!

http://www.northpoleny.com/

we used to go there then have a late picnic lunch on the Whiteface Memorial Highway and follow up with a swim in Mirror Lake or the Bouquet River - Split Rock Falls! a real nice family day.

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THUMBS UP a must stop for any family with children, of any age.

Two of my employees recently attended or will attend "conferences". Here is a tale...

Basketball Conference at Penn State...300 teams of girls age 13-14. Penn State is a huge area with lots of hotels.....he had to stay 20 minutes out of town. Still paid 89 dollars a night.

Twillers event....very young girls who I guess twirl things and parents fly places to let them compete. Noterdame/Indiana College campus....Not sure how many twirllers are coming. But the town knows they are....hotel prices jump for that week alone from mid 80s to well over 170.00

I also mentioned goverment workers going away on conference......check Fox News $700,000 recently spent at AZ conference site for social security managers.
http://fncu.foxnews.com/2009/07/13/biz-beat-opinion-all-the-president%e2%80%99s-men/

Again, I think this is great for the town and population, businesses of LP. Just not the weekend warriors or families taking a ski trip to LP.

I:)skiing wrote:

I also mentioned goverment workers going away on conference......check Fox News $700,000 recently spent at AZ conference site for social security managers. http://fncu.foxnews.com/2009/07/13/biz-beat-opinion-all-the-president%e2%80%99s-men

WHAT A BUNCH OF BS!!!! all that money, PLUS air fare, PLUS expenses, PLUS meals for Government employees to go party at a " swank hotel "!!! WTF!!! these conferences are nothing but parties wrapped in the guise of useless eduction - information that they could learn back at their office.

THIS year's budget deficit is now heading to 2 TRILLION DOLLARS....5 TIMES greater the any other year....5 TIMES!!!

OBAMA & CO have ANOTHER 2-3 TRILLION dollar deficit in next year's budget.....which in the end will actually up being 4+ trillion for 09-10.

there is no freegin way we can sustain this debt. you mark my word......we are gonna crash and crash hard. they're gonna print so much worthless money you could fill the Mariannas Trench with it.

it's never gonna change until the economy/government completely collapses.

Snowballs wrote:

I:)skiing wrote: I also mentioned goverment workers going away on conference......check Fox News $700,000 recently spent at AZ conference site for social security managers. http://fncu.foxnews.com/2009/07/13/biz-beat-opinion-all-the-president%e2%80%99s-men WHAT A BUNCH OF BS!!!! all that money, PLUS air fare, PLUS expenses, PLUS meals for Government employees to go party at a " swank hotel "!!! WTF!!! these conferences are nothing but parties wrapped in the guise of useless eduction - information that they could learn back at their office. THIS year's budget deficit is now heading to 2 TRILLION DOLLARS....5 TIMES greater the any other year....5 TIMES!!! OBAMA & CO have ANOTHER 2-3 TRILLION dollar deficit in next year's budget.....which in the end will actually up being 4+ trillion for 09-10. there is no freegin way we can sustain this debt. you mark my word......we are gonna crash and crash hard. they're gonna print so much worthless money you could fill the Mariannas Trench with it. it's never gonna change until the economy/government completely collapses.

I'll agree you can't blame this mess we're in on one side or the other. They both got us here through greed! Our country isn't run by the people its run by who have the money to sway the votes of those we have elected. I don't think the Dems or Repubs are exempt from this. I partly agree with snowballs things won't change till everything really crashes. You can't blame it on Obama though, I mean we've spent almost a trillion on Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001. That's Trillion with a capitol T!!!!!!