What’s up with Huff Ford/Chevolet/Pontiac?  Wytheville may as well change their name to Wytheburg as we are looking more and more like Christiansburg every day…...........we have everything crammed up at the Walmart exit and now it seems like we’ll have a Huff Motor Mile at the other end of town….....................and I’m not sure that it’s a good thing.

As downtown dies a slow, painful death…

Its just the natural progression of things… Wytheville proper has always wanted to maintain its image as a retiree/resident friendly place (witness the Walgreens mess), so why not have everything commercial on the outskirts of town? Everyone in town knew when that farm was sold at the interchange it would only be a matter of time before the town shifted westward.

The Huffs are just taking advantage of a buyers market in automotive franchises and commercial property on the east end - I can’t blame them. Goodness knows that anyone in the automotive industry needs all the luck they can get right now to turn a true profit.

Wytheville is a quaint small town, but why no businesses downtown?

Main Street should be loaded with shops , boutiques & businesses for all the visitors and travelers we get and for the residents who live here. I travel on a consistent basis just to shop for clothes, trinkets gifts etc. out of this area because it does not offer it here.

I support most of the businesses (which are few here) but they do not carry all of the necessities and trendy attire that one would like. Unless you want to shop Walmart constantly!

Plus a Motor Mile will bring people out of the area and spend time and maybe some money in our town, what’s wrong with that?

I totally agree with Babs.  Where are the private business owners who have plenty of space in the downtown area to display their goods. Now that the nasty Clinic has been closed, this should offer even more opportunity for some smart business minded person (definetly not me..lol) to take advantage of all the building has to offer.  I also have had to travel to other areas like Christiansburg, Blacksburg, Bristol to just shop the out of the ordinary(WalMart).  I also think it would be a great draw to this area for visitors going up and down the Interstate corridors and US major highways. With gas like it is, we should be experiencing the greatest influx of local visitors that we have ever had, if marketed properly.