Buccee’s

From what I have found out the Lincoln Parish Police Jury is set to discuss and vote on the proposal tomorrow night. (there's a tax incentive involved). I assume that if it passes, and in my opinion it should, It will go forward. It will create somewhere around 200 jobs not including the construction jobs over 1-2 years and more tax revenue for the state, parish, and city than the tax incentive will cost.

The only problem I’ve ever had with this is that Buccee’s is going to build that gas station, no matter what. The placement of their stations fits inside a business model. If they’ve already bought the land, then they are going to build on it no matter what. It’s kinda dumb to give them money.

The same happened when i was living in Denton, TX. Buccee’s wanted to build there after Coppel, TX (right down the road) denied them building permits. Buccee‘s had bought the land for both locations. Coppel wasn’t offering them any incentives and they still wanted to build there. After the permits were denied, they bought a bunch of land in Denton and started the same process. Denton gave them millions. It made zero sense. Bucees was going to build that station and the city gave them a stupid amount of money that they didn’t need to give.

I’m just sick of this corporate welfare.