Where there’s change, there’s opportunity
For decades we’ve commissioned studies, convened task forces and made unfulfilled promises to better South Carolina’s most disadvantaged areas with few results.
It’s time to stop kicking the same can down the road and take a new approach – to think differently and with an open mind. There’s a tangible, transformative and life-changing opportunity for one such area, Orangeburg County, and along the I-95 corridor staring us in the face, without one dime of taxpayer risk.
That opportunity is a vision and a plan that sees beyond conventional economic development practices to create an on-going, powerful economic engine for the distressed I-95 area. The highway is a thoroughfare for east coast travel from Maine to Florida that carries nearly 100,000 vehicles at any given time – and it’s greatly underutilized in South Carolina.
“Our people, schools and businesses will benefit dramatically as people traveling on I-95 will no longer pass us by but make us a destination place to visit and spend their money. I supported the S.C. Education Lottery because I knew the profound effect it would have on our children’s future. I am just as confident that a privately owned resort casino owned by South Carolinians, properly governed with safeguards in place, will transform our county and region into an economic engine we can all be proud of.”
