HERE’S WHAT WE THINK MR. WEINSHANKER... You claim you want to provide jobs for Memphis, jobs for Whitehaven when all you are really doing is obtaining child labor right here in America which is reducing your shipping costs... You claim you will pay $15/hour, but you are paying high school children who may need money, but really need a good education so they can earn a decent amount of money and retire… You have no respect for the feelings of others because your bottom line is all you seem to care about… You refused to speak to the neighborhood who will be most negatively affected by this monstrosity of metal billowing far into the sky above the homes they love and that many have struggled to obtain and maintain for decades now... This type of large, factory facility does not belong in the center of any residential neighborhood and you should be ashamed of yourself for trying to place it in a predominantly black community right around the corner from Graceland… There is ample, more suitable land within the same proximity or closer to your current retail locations that are better suited for this type of activity. We think you should consider apologizing to us by repurposing our former school, at your expense, to support what we want—a self-sustaining, multifunctional, “Person-Centered,” planned resource and community center that will benefit our community financially and otherwise and be a model for all to duplicate. 30
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