Board Member of Center City Partners Threatens Small Business

David Furman, a board member on Charlotte’s Center City Partners (CCCP) threatened Trafk Media after they used temporary chalk on the sidewalks of Uptown.

What makes this all the more interesting is the CCCP’s self proclaimed mission, taken directly from their website:

Charlotte Center City Partners facilitates and promotes the economic and cultural development of the urban core.

Furman’s email and Trafk’s response is below:

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Wow! Thanks for letting us know how you feel. And I appreciate the threats and foul language.

I’m sorry you feel the way you do. We went out of our way to mark public property with temporary chalk that washes away with water and minor foot traffic. The chalk would have been gone by this afternoon.

This is a common practice by multinational corporations in larger cities that simply adds to a diverse and interesting urban landscape. Something that Charlotte purportedly aspires to become.

Best Regards
Todd Trimakas
Partner – Trafk Media
Todd@trafkmedia.com
www.trafkmedia.com
704.944.0554

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On 11/1/2010 10:47 AM, david furman wrote:
> From: david furman<david@centrocityworks.com>
> Subject: downtown tagging
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> Message Body:
> guys…your guerrilla tactics are very effective in helping me remember the name of your company…so that i will remember to NEVER do any fucking business with you. i live downtown, and find the tagging you did this sat nite totally offensive. i hope that you have to pay for the city workers who had to work overtime to remove your graffitti by sunday afternoon. as a board member for center city partners, i will pass your name to everyone i know, with the request that your business be boucotted. i respond to creative marketing, and i have respect for those who produce it; but just like i have respect for the passion of skateboarders, i have no respect for vandalism as a message means.
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