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Cumberland County Commissioners are discussing converting the former Crown Event Center site back into a parking lot.

The author argues this is a missed opportunity and the land could be better used for development, generating more property tax revenue.

Including prior expenses, the cost per parking spot in the new lot would be $83,500.

On Aug. 14, CBS 17 News informed viewers that Cumberland County Commissioners have decided to turn the downtown Crown Event Center site back into a parking lot . This would be a huge missed opportunity, on top of the already huge missed opportunity to build the Crown Event Center there, and result in probably the most expensive surface-level parking spots in the history of North Carolina. The parking lot will also raise zero proper

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