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ihus the group heard sitespecific presentations by Rappahannock Non-Profit Center (RNPC) board chairwoman Alexia Morrison and Rappahannock Natural Foods Cooperative owner Jerome Niessen.
Both are willing to make room for a visitor center, the RNPC at its Link community center at US. 211 and 522 in Sperryville, Niessen at the retail/arts center he’s planning to open in the spring at the former Sperryville Antiques Market building a few’ blocks away off Water Street.
Besides the location issue, two “themes” that Brown said were evident in responses to his quick email survey of WHVA members, were: the visitor center should be located at a “neutral, non-business location," and management of the center should be by some impartial board, association or committee, “so that all businesses to be served by a visitor center are confident that they're going to be treated equally.”
Sullivan added that not just getting traffic volume but pattern information, possibly from B&B and other tourist businesses - such as how many visitors come from the east, how many from the north or west,
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