Commercial growth underway

Mr. Realist,
I disagree. This is not standard ebb and flow (that is when restaurants or boutiques or thrift stores open and close). Small businesses are the main driver of the American economy "According to the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), small businesses represent 99.7 percent of all employer firms. Since 1995, small businesses have generated 64 percent of new jobs, and paid 44 percent of the total United States private payroll, according to the SBA."
Here we have classic small businesses and one large church. The automative store is adding transfer truck service showing an entrepreneur meeting a need. They are hiring 10 to 12 pretty solid.
The expanded medical practice is as good as you can get. High paying jobs.
The gun range not only will pay local sales tax but should attract people from outside the area.
The church itself is only a church but as big as it is, you can better believe it will put some Sunday lunch eaters out there.

This is exactly the type of growth we need here. Low impact. Good jobs, no drain on infrastructure.

The problem is we need jobs that are going to pay ATLEAST $50,000 a year if not more and need hundreds of em. These blips aren't going to do that. Retail is dying big time, there's only Woodbridge Inn in that area as a Sunday restaurant. We can also encourage remote workers. The other problem is that other small communities are seeing this, and doing the right things. We're not doing a thing except holding on to the life preserver that has sprung a leak and there's no duct tape.