A nice RV park located in Sisters, Oregon is closing to make room for more retail stores. When I first heard this it made me mad. I thought, “I'm a full time RVer, if they plow under all the RV parks there won’t be anyplace for us to stay.” Then I put on my thinking cap and came up with a different view. First, I will now be able to park in the shopping center parking lot for free unless there is an ordinance against it. Second, this should encourage land owners and developers to build more RV parks. That’s right, it makes perfect economic sense to buy a piece of land somewhere in the growth radius of a town and make it into a revenue producing RV park while you're waiting for WalMart to make you an offer. There are few buildings that will need to be demolished and you can take tax write-offs and make money while you wait for the big contract. So how about it land owners? Get off the dime and start building RV Parks everywhere! Keeping you entertained - Jim Twamley, Professor of RVing and ROAD Scholar
RV Park Bulldozed to Build Another Strip Mall
A nice RV park located in Sisters, Oregon is closing to make room for more retail stores. When I first heard this it made me mad. I thought, “I'm a full time RVer, if they plow under all the RV parks there won’t be anyplace for us to stay.” Then I put on my thinking cap and came up with a different view. First, I will now be able to park in the shopping center parking lot for free unless there is an ordinance against it. Second, this should encourage land owners and developers to build more RV parks. That’s right, it makes perfect economic sense to buy a piece of land somewhere in the growth radius of a town and make it into a revenue producing RV park while you're waiting for WalMart to make you an offer. There are few buildings that will need to be demolished and you can take tax write-offs and make money while you wait for the big contract. So how about it land owners? Get off the dime and start building RV Parks everywhere! Keeping you entertained - Jim Twamley, Professor of RVing and ROAD Scholar
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Any word on when the parking lot will be available for use. We are planning on being in that area soon and would like a free spot to stay.
If you've driven across the country much lately, not only will you see tons of housing developments ( ok, they now call them fancier names)
but also tons of strips malls...
Do we really need that many new stores?
At the same time, lots of small towns are drying up simply because they were in the wrong place.... e.g. NOT next to a major freeway.
The freeway were built around the towns so not to disturb them. Now the freeways ARE the towns...
Krashdragon
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