MEMO TO STERLING’S PREENING SO-CALLED ‘ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE’: Main Street storefront beautification/aesthetic improvement HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR STATED MISSION OF BRINGING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TO STERLING.
So where do you get off scheming to bestow taxpayer-funded LARGESSE on Main Street private property owners to improve the appearance of their storefronts when they can do it themselves at their own expense??? You are playing favorites with OUR money– 2023_03_23_edc_subcom_agenda.pdf (sterling-ma.gov)
Suggest you spend your time much more wisely by scheming to increase the number of downtown parking spaces whose increase will actually foster economic activity along Main Street.
To check out the private property owners on Main Street between ‘The Brick’ restaurant and Leominster Credit Union use the Sterling GIS mapping platform and zoom in on those properties– Sterling, MA (axisgis.com) Note that Hands Star, LLC owns 27 Main Street with the longest exposure of storefronts along that stretch of Main Street. Hands Star, LLC is managed by one Hung C. Tran.
SEE MA Corporations Search Entity Summary (state.ma.us) Gee, Hung C. Tran just happens to manage the Hands Family Trust, LLC with a business address in Raynham, Massachusetts, too. SEE MA Corporations Search Entity Summary (state.ma.us) The Tran family, obviously, are not poor, but that hasn’t deterred the witless Sterling Economic Development Committee from scheming to bestow upon the Tran family’s ‘Hands LLCs’ OUR hard-earned tax dollars. What dopes.
This unjust funding matter will, doubtless, be presented at a future Sterling Annual Town Meeting during which the voters-taxpayers should shoot it down in flames.
J.G.
STERLING, MASSACHUSETTS, OVERWATCH 