The counties that do the best job of assessing get penalized.

Many retailers require a significant amount of square footage, yet we have a fee that says you pay more if you own more square footage. It's just one of the many reasons why bigger retailers will set up shop in Barboursville or right outside city limits.

As soon as a few of Huntington's larger car dealerships started moving out to Route 60 in Barboursville to get close to all of the other retail action, it became an incentive for others to move or expand there.