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Stop Ousting of Pier Road Historic District Shops in Jekyll Island

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Rochelle Greene
2 years ago

Jekyll used to be my favorite place. My in-laws owned a home on the island for 40+ years until recently. Jekyll has been slowly turning into another high priced out of reach island. It’s losing its charm..sad.

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Jackie Villani
2 years ago

The Pier Road Shops are one of my favorite areas to visit on THE ISLAND. I love to read all of the signs in front of each place everytime I go and the shops have a variety of wonderful items. Please leave the shops as shops.

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Joey Chitwood
2 years ago

Stop Pier Road Shop Ousting in Jekyll Island's Historic District

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Margery Rubin
2 years ago Featured

Stop turning Jekyll Island into another high priced tourist destination. Jekyll Island is supposed to be the the average Georgian. You are erasing the history of the island and replacing it with horrible hotels and shops that are a dime a dozen.

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Jennifer Armstrong
2 years ago

We need to support our local businesses! It is so very wrong that JIA made a decision like this to make room for commercialization!

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Charlotte Henson
2 years ago

The draw to Jekyll Island has always been the laid back, non-commercialized environment that magically brought you back to a time that was simpler and less stressful. I would hate to see the local knowledge, charm and friendliness of the shop owners and operators falling to the wayside of commercialization and having everything under the control of the JI Authority. Please don’t be in such a hurry to modernize and drag the nostalgia right out of the island and keep what has worked for decades alive and well, so you don’t lose all the repeat and new visitors that come to JI for it’s beauty, Southern charm and quaint shops.

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Robert Henson
2 years ago

The little privately owned shops within the JI Club property are what provides the atmosphere and enhances that Southern charm feel to the nostalgic times of old. In this world of high speed internet and needing to have everything now, it is refreshing to have a private owner who has invested their time and money into shops that slow down the fast pace of life back to a simpler time where relationships mattered equally with the quality of their merchandise at a fair price.

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Angela Mason
2 years ago

This is unfair and completely wrong to do to these local residents who have poured their lives into making Jekyll what it is today

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Pat Brooks
2 years ago

We love these shops

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Michelle Pinell
2 years ago

Please save local business

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Loni Shepherd
2 years ago

Do not do this to our local business owners!!!

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Ellie Ellington
2 years ago

Please reconsider closing the Pier Road shops! They are a staple of Jekyll Island!

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Bobby
2 years ago

Stop this no comment.

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Debbie Cobble
2 years ago

Please keep the shops open. They are also the history of Jekyll Island.

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ahmed
2 years ago

i hope this helps alot of people

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Max D Gilliland
2 years ago

We have a pretty good mix on the island at this time to keep it profitable and still keep the charm. Maybe it's time we should take a breath.

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Marisa way
2 years ago

Keep the small businesses!

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Lisa Radlinger
2 years ago

Save the shops for the small business owners. They have invested so much in there business.

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John Lyons
2 years ago

Please keep the pier road business open at Jekyll Island!

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Carolyn Spitzer
2 years ago

These shops need to remain to lure tourists to the area. Without them, visitors will decrease measurably !! The livelihood of all involved is important. Do NOT take these shops out of the Jekyll Island way of life.