Editor,
As a resident of Holiday Island, I feel it necessary to respond to comments made by Eureka Springs Realtor Kent Turner in an article “Residential Properties selling” in the January 23 edition of ESI. Due to the lack of inventory of residential properties for sale in Eureka Springs, Mr. Turner states that it “pushes people toward Holiday Island.” He says, “When we don’t have anything, they look for the next best thing.”
Mr. Turner seems to be of the opinion that Holiday Island is a poor alternative to Eureka Springs. I would like to offer that Holiday Island is a great place to live. In Holiday Island you can live in a clean, safe, uncrowded, and affordable neighborhood. You can play golf, go swimming in one of two pools, swim or fish or boat in Table Rock Lake, play tennis or pickleball or shuffleboard, eat in our restaurants, shop in our stores, or join one of our many clubs and organizations.
Holiday Island residents are also great patrons of Eureka Springs. The restaurants certainly benefit greatly from our patronage. The city also would certainly miss the thousands of dollars a year that Holiday Island residents pay in Eureka Springs sales taxes and plugging your parking meters. Holiday Island residents generally love and appreciate Eureka Springs. The way I look at it, Holiday Island is a great alternative to living in Eureka Springs. Not the “next best thing.” And we’re only five miles up the road.
Dan Kees