The much-touted chain stores on Broughton Street ushered in by Ben Carter often continue to struggle for sales. However, Carter’s other local project, the Tanger Outlet Mall in Pooler, has basically the same stores but often with many more customers.
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Editor’s Note: Ben Carter and the unicorn
The elephant in the room isn’t so much the number of tourists coming here, but the dwindling number of actual residents in Savannah’s Historic District. I know several people who live downtown who are literally the only full-time residents on their whole block. It’s not a good situation.
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The Year in Review: News
1: FULL METAL JACKET Gun violence has been a part of Savannah life and lore for decades. But never before has there been such a high volume of shootings over […]
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Editor’s Note: History + $$$ + Downtown = ???
The National Trust for Historic Preservation comes here just as we face the most contentious period of downtown development since Merritt Dixon plonked the modernist cube of the Hyatt Regency down onto River Street.
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Editor’s Note: Ben Carter, tourism, and ‘unknown facts’
While tourism in Savannah is robust, our numbers of “actual” tourists are likely far lower than usually cited by local movers and shakers in order to justify whatever it is they want to do, and want us to pay for.
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Editor’s Note: ‘Slow-vannah’ no more?
BACK IN FEBRUARY, on a blustery cold day on Broughton Street, developer Ben Carter addressed an eager crowd at his first local press conference—the kind of event usually reserved for […]
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Surprises on Savannah’s Fashion Night
The imminent transformation of the historic downtown shopping corridor has been the subject of much controversy. But the organizers of the yearly style extravaganza known as Savannah’s Fashion Night have no qualms mixing up new trends with the classics.
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Editor’s Note: Ben Carter’s Buckhead story
With all the bullet-point lists of Carter’s previous projects, the local media has made virtually no mention of his activity in Buckhead.
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Game-changer on Broughton Street?
‘What we’re doing is not easy,” developer Ben Carter said. “If it was it would have been done before.’