The Twentynine Palms City Council will conduct a groundbreaking for the new Dollar General store in Twentynine Palms on Tuesday, March 26, at 5:45 p.m., at the project site located east of Del Taco on Twentynine Palms Highway.The Dollar General store will be a 12,480-square-foot retail building with a 68-space parking lot, drive isles, loading area, landscaping, and two retention basins. The discount variety store chain operates more than 10,000 stores nationwide, located in 40 states. One of its most recent stores is currently being completed at the west end of Yucca Valley.
Dynamic Development LLC, the developer for Dollar General, is building the Twentynine Palms retail store on a one and one-half acre parcel of land, located on the north side of Twentynine Palms Highway west of Datura Avenue and east of 49 Palms Avenue, in a General Commercial (CG) land use district.
The site is currently marked by a large green construction fence. Those who wish to attend the groundbreaking event are asked to enter the construction site from the rear.
Following the groundbreaking, the City Council will return to City Hall, for its regularly scheduled council meeting at 6:00 p.m. For more information about the Dollar General project or the City Council meeting, contact Twentynine Palms City Hall, 6136 Adobe Road, (760) 367-6799, or go to www.29palms.org.
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While another dollar store may not be the best idea, it still brings new business to the City. The other great thing……unlike the Big guys down the highway, We all got invited to the groundbreaking!
Dollar General is sponsoring a Sprint Cup car… they can’t be all bad.
Dollar General Corp. is a U.S. chain of variety stores headquartered in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. As of January 2012, Dollar General operated over 10,000 stores in 40 U.S. states; according to DG’s statements. The store system was originally founded in 1939.
What bothers me, specifically, is the “less-than-desirable” quality of the goods sold and the fact that the profits DG enjoys leave the Morongo Basin and immediately end up in Goodlettsville, Tennessee.
Sales Taxes. True, the community will participate in “some” of the sales tax revenue, however, sales in the DG store will have succeeded in “robbing from peter to pay paul”. That is, the product was sold at DG instead of the “Mom ‘n Pop” store across the street. So, Mom ‘n Pop lost the sale, DG implemented the sale but at a very slight “discount” from competing stores, on the order of mere pennies. The tax base is not immediately affected but the profits now travel to another state.
The DG store(s) does not “bring in NEW business”. The new store (whoever it might be) is simply another store in the same community hustling the local population to spend “here” instead of over “there.” They call it “competition.” The net result is a wash with the “income” being sent out of state to bolster a foreign entity. Furthermore, Dollar General stores are NOT “dollar” stores. The vast majority of their product lines sell for much more than a dollar, where some are as high as 50-65 dollars.
Employment: On January 3, 2011, Dollar General announced plans to add 625 new stores in the 35 states where the chain already has stores plus Connecticut, Nevada and New Hampshire, and to hire 6,000 employees. That averages out to 9 employees per “store”. In reality, and most likely, the average “new hires” will be around 5-6 per store due in part to the physical size of the store and where 2 to perhaps 3 employees will be “part-timers” without benefits. The company also planned to improve or move 550 existing stores.
As to the City Council setting up and participating in a commercial ground breaking event for Dollar General; that sounds more like political posturing and a waste of taxpayer dollars… and there seems to be a lot of that going on. Let DG “celebrate” their own public announcements but not at taxpayer expense.
That’s my opinion… what’s yours?
Not many would dare ask for my opinion. lol
Unfortunately this publicity stunt by the council members represents all that has deflated our great country’s quest for a free market. It is a good thing for 29 to get a DG. Hell at this point anything is better than what we have, But I question is it better than what we would have if the greedy bastards at city hall would not be all involved?
What we have here is a big company, very smart guys that most likely understand commerce, exposure, and profit that being in the best local brings. We need to ask some very simple questions.
Why would a company as successful as DG put their store in other than a prim location when the prime is available?
Why would DG choose a location fare from the revenue source when there are lots suitable at a lesser price than their planed location?
When DG proposed opening a store were the steered away from the prime by our local Nazis at city hall?
Would our city Nazi’s have preferences on who gets to prospers, whose property is going to set dormant?
Would our greedy bastards stoop so low to give waivers or find loopholes on some of our draconian codes to get the big boys to cooperate with the crony agenda?
Do we have a city problem; are they using zoning and codes to advance the local economy with the crony agenda?
Why all the homogenized cities, why would they put the Yucca DG in a substandard local?
What’s going on with the councils a PC s all acting and going in the same direction?
They all go to Ca league of cities does this have anything to do with them being all in deep financial dung? All using consultants and lawyers from the same association’s?
Should we be firing all these very costly, unneeded, all the same, greedy bastard infested little cities?
Do we want a free and open market? if so call your state representative and let him or her know it is time to give the good citizens of this great state a means to return to that treasured market. It is a state wide problem we need a state wide cure.
WriterOne,
I am not sure if you were kidding or not, but the city council doesn’t get paid for ground breaking events. I am still trying to figure out the logistics of participating in a ground breaking event at 5:45 and then getting to City Hall to start the CC meeting on time. I guess it will be practice for time management skills. Good to see you posting again.
While I agree with your comments concerning the Dollar Store and the profits exiting the Morongo Basin, I did not mean a “new” as in uniquely different store, just the fact that someone somewhere decided that the population in 29 Palms could in fact support their business. That is a step towards maybe some other companies looking towards the City as well.
I began my comments with ” while another dollar store….” and my point coincides with your ” less than desirable” goods sold. My comment regarding the groundbreaking was really a shot at Yucca Valley’s recent ground breaking without anyone even knowing about it until it was concluded. The 29 City Council has been justly beat up recently so I guess they can have their 15 seconds of good will. Thanks for your post Writer One, nice to have intelligent conversation on this blog
This is a good event for 29 Palms. Regardless of what one thinks of Dollar General, the company coming here does some positive things.
It helps to dispel the myth that 29 Palms is anti-growth and keeps businesses out. That myth has never been true and this new opening helps to get rid of that myth.
The Council will spend no tax dollars in performing this ground breaking which is also a good thing.
There will be increased tax revenues.
It has been said that I do not see the positive and only the negative. That is not true but I will call them as I seem them.
This is a good thing for 29 Palms as was the flashing lights and traffic calming dots at SR 62 and Utah Trail.
Good job!
I like it too Steve…. I’ll give it 4 1/2 Goats on the Scale of 5.
Baaaa – they are sheep not goats. I have no idea what a Big Horn sheep sounds like but I doubt it would be “Baaaa”!
Steve: could you please give me some info on calming dots? Not sure if they are to alert the driver to the approaching intersection or to calm a driver down once he has seen the goeps? or are they shats? (combining goats and sheep) located at the new signage. Thanks
LMAO!
They would be dots put in the roadway prior to entering the intersection so as to let you know to wake up – you may want to see what is happening here in front of you.