This past week my organization, OPEN MINDS, played host to 300+ health care executives at our annual OPEN MINDS Executive Leadership Retreat. First, I want to thank all the folks in town who made this week-long event possible. Great food at our restaurants, wonderful battlefield guides, talented local artists, interesting shops, and unique museums.
But I am concerned about where our town – our Borough Council and the Borough planning commission– are headed. The reason my customer executives come here was summed up by one of last week’s guests from California (a first-time visitor to our fair city). “I can’t believe what a beautiful town this is. It’s like stepping back in time – like nothing else in America.”
I am appealing to the officials in our town who are the brink of making decisions that will destroy our brand – and our economic engine. I hope that the Borough officials will say no to tall buildings and modern architecture. Those changes will make us like anywhere else – and end the magic that is Gettysburg.