Trips -N - Ships

I grew up down the Fort, my family still lives there, Christmas is second to Fiesta - need I say more?

The hotel is a mistake and just the latest example of the “nobody at the wheel” mentality of Gloucester. Everything is a knee-jerk reaction that comes back to bite us in the ass later on. The ridiculous curbs on Main Street, the rearranging of traffic lights, the sewer system fiascos both past and present and now the old boys network of certain banks and businessmen that shall remain nameless have set their sights on one of the last enclaves of real Gloucester waterfront.

Without thought to the people living there, certain names in this area can get away with anything - just ask me about the brewery…

The hotel will be placed on a strip of land that today is dedicated to fishing - what will the busloads of tourists think of that smell? And then there is Fiesta, unless this is a scheme to move Fiesta too - the tourists love it, but how will they get to the hotel? With the current economic crisis, will there be any tourists at all?

Everyone knows where the hotel should go - on that big empty lot by the Building Center. Yet another debacle caused by ineptitude in city government. Don’t believe that Gloucester and the Fort does not want to change, we just believe these changes have to be done smartly.