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Politics
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THE BATTALION
Tuesday, October 2,2(11;
B-CS economy growth not
affected bv terrorist attacks
Octobei
By Jonathan Kolmetz
THE BATTALION
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in your life?
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Date: Tuesday, October 2 th
Time: 3pm-5pm
Location: Koldus 144
Cost: FREE
This program is produced by the Department of Student Activities.
Since the stock markets
opened one week after the terror
ist attacks in Washington, D.C.,
and New York City, the Dow
Jones Report is down eight per
cent, the Nasdaq fell 12 percent
and the S&P 500 has lost five per
cent, but economic development
growth in Bryan-College Station
has not slowed, officials said.
The repercussions felt by
local businesses, however, may
not be known for some time.
The quarterly sales tax reports
are not due for at least another
eight weeks. “With the reports not
due in for a couple of months, the
best way to view the local econo
my is to just drive around,” said
College Station Mayor Lynn
Mcllhaney. “With construction
going up all over College Station,
it is easy to see that things are
business as usual here.”
The H.E.B. grocery store, the
new shopping center on the comer
of Holleman Drive and Texas
Avenue, the pharmacy near
Southwest Parkway, and the road
constmction on University Drive all
were planned before Sept. 11 and
have not stopped because of the
attacks, Mcllhaney said.
“I believe the best thing that
we can do locally and as a
nation is to continue to rely on
our greatest assets: the people,”
Mcllhaney said. “If we as a
community allow other factors
to determine our financial
future, then that is not the
America that I know.”
Mcllhaney warned that if the
residents of B-CS let the
attacks affect their local shop
ping routine, there will be far
greater repercussions, and the
terrorists will have won.
“The next set of casualties
is going to be in layoffs and
the companies and even com
munities that get into a finan
cial binds,” Mcllhaney said.
Roland Mower, president and
CEO of the Bryan-College Station
Economic Development
Corporation (BCSEDC), support
ed Mcllhaney’s claims that no
signs of economic slow down
have been seen since the attacks.
“No company since the
Sept. 11 attacks have backed
out or showed a lack of inter
est in the B-CS area,” Mower
said. “The current economic
situation in Bryan-College
Station has more to do with
the last six months or longer,
not the past couple of weeks.”
The BCSEDC serves the
cities of Bryan and College
Station, and Brazos County in
their economic development
efforts.
“We give information to
companies looking to build
or relocate to the Brazos
Valley,” Mower said.
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I believe the best
thing that we can do
locally and as a nation
is to continue to rely
ihc KK'al tvonoim to preventrI
repercussions in the future. Wt|
signs showing the larger local<
omy still is growing, the smaJ
locally owned businesses mightiu|
be faring as well.
“We dropped off in Aug\ist|
and really fell short
September,” said Jim Burkea
owner of The Curiosity Shop;
Post Oak Mall.
“August and September
normally good months for us,'
Burke said. “But people a
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on our greatest assets:
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— Lynn Mcllhaney,
College Station mayor
Mower did speculate,
however, that Bryan/College
Station will see evidence of
the economic effects of the
attacks in the future.
“The rate in which the
national and global economies
filter into the B-CS area is
slower than we see it on Wall
Street,” Mower said.
Mower said B-CS will have to
take a more proactive approach to
careful with their money becais-
they just don’t know what
going to happen.”
Burke encouraged citizei
to continue their normal shop|
ping trends and not lei lit
attacks deter their purchasiuj|
consistency.
“I talked with other smi|
business owners, and they all
are seeing the same trend
their stores,” he said.
With the typically large bu;
ing months of August ar;l
September gone for small bus
ness owners, they
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hope for better times com:
Christmas,” Burke said.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Governors plea to U.S. to
return to normal life
WASHINGTON (AP) — Five governors ended
a two day swing through the nation’s stricken
economic and federal capitals Monday with a
plea to Americans to defeat terror by restoring
the nation’s commerce and tourism.
The governors joined District of Columbia
Mayor Anthony Williams for what was billed as a
“Back to Business” tour. The bipartisan outing
was designed to help restore the confidence of
the traveling public after Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks against the New York’s World Trade
Center and the Pentagon outside Washington.
The politicians warned of potential damage
to the nation’s economy if people don’t start
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