There’s a new community plea to bring back Grapevine’s Sam’s Club. It was damaged last year by a tornado. Business leaders say the store plays a bigger role beyond being a place to shop.
The chamber started a postcard campaign to bring Sam's Club back to Grapevine.
"We're a tourism town,” Hessel said. “So, the postcards that you get when you travel 'we wish you were here' so that was kind of the birth of the idea of having a postcard with we wish you were here." The free postcards say"We miss our Sam's. Please come back to Grapevine" and are pre-addressed to the Sam's Club headquarters in Arkansas."Grapevine keeps our property taxes very low and we live and breathe basically on sales tax,” Hessel said. “So, when you lose a sales tax driver such as Sam's Club, it's a pretty big hit to the community.""I think it makes all of our citizens and business community feel like we are trying to do something,” Hessel said.
The chamber has already handed out nearly 2,500 postcards and has more available for anyone wanting to send a card.
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