As annual hotel occupancy tax revenues approach $20 million, the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority on May 29 considered how to divide that increasingly juicy pie to continue to drive tourism to the area.
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Plans for the Beaucatcher Greenway are on hold, and the city released a $975,000 grant awarded by the Tourism Product Development Fund of the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority to partially fund the greenway’s construction back to the TDA.
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At a time when rising construction costs are seriously threatening the prospects for several proposed local greenways, the Woodfin Greenway
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While other planned greenways have bogged down in the face of rising costs — leaving the timeline for their construction
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Becky Anderson — a retiree who served as Asheville’s first director of economic development, among other prominent roles — says
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