Bunkers: Roundabout “may have to be deferred”

Mayor Dean Bunkers is the guest right now on 1450 AM’s “Coffee Talk.” He just said the Roundabout and sidewalk projects likely will be deferred, unless stimulus money comes through to fund Ocean Shores’ portion of it. “I don’t have the money for it,” he said. “Our hope is we’ll be able to get some of that stimulus money and be able to move ahead.”

I can think of a few business owners who hope the Roundabout doesn’t happen this summer. (Could there be worse timing, from a business perspective, than to have a major construction project in the middle of summer?)

Bunkers also said Ken Mercer just booked a square dance group into the Convention Center, and that they are expected to draw 1,200 people.