Local: Common sense from the PJS on incentives
Today’s anonymous editorial agrees with city plans to include parts of Prospect Road and the Sheridan Triangle into the city’s enterprise zone. So do I, and for reasons spelled out in the editorial. And I share the edit writer’s distaste for other additions to the enterprise zone:
Indeed, if you’re going to offer developers the same incentives near the Shoppes at Grand Prairie or along north Allen Road as you do in the Sheridan Triangle, isn’t the latter doomed from the start? Competing with yourself, long-term, is a can’t-win proposition.
Finally, here’s a novel thought: Minimize taxes and maintain infrastructure across the board, thereby leveling the playing field and enhancing the city’s attractiveness on the whole. Why pick local winners and losers in the free market if you don’t have to?
Billy Dennis is a former reporter and editor at small daily and weekly newspapers in Illinois and Missouri. He comments on media, news and politics. He also owns and operates 
