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Anonymous ID: 561e1b Feb. 1, 2021, 8:02 p.m. No.12796014   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6057 >>6067

>>12795884

 

Dolly Parton's Shady as Fuck Brother Has Died.

 

https://greensboro.com/entertainment/music/randy-parton-dollys-brother-and-former-manager-of-troubled-n-c-music-venue-has-died/article_6018937c-5c1f-11eb-ad51-9b6ed9b7916d.html

 

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/dolly-partons-brother-randy-dead-at-67

 

https://pagesix.com/2021/01/21/dolly-partons-brother-randy-dead-at-67-after-cancer-battle/

 

Dolly Parton's youngest brother, Randy Parton, died at age 67 after losing his battle with cancer, the revered singer announced via Facebook on Thursday. "The family and I are grieving his …

Anonymous ID: 561e1b Feb. 1, 2021, 8:04 p.m. No.12796029   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6083

>>12795884

 

https://www.carolinajournal.com/news-article/roanoke-rapids-finally-unloads-former-randy-parton-theatre/

 

Troubled beginning

 

The project became public in July 2005, when the N.C. Northeast Partnership, a 16-county, state-funded regional economic development organization, announced “Randy Parton, brother of mega-star Dolly Parton, inked a deal with private developers and the city of Roanoke Rapids for development of a music theater and entertainment district” along Interstate 95.

 

The theater was to anchor an entertainment district, including shops, restaurants, motels, and family recreational activities. The first phase, covering 116 acres, would attract $129 million in private investment and create 2,595 jobs, based on an economic impact analysis by researchers at the Carolina Center for Competitive Economics at UNC-Chapel Hill. The researchers also predicted the project would produce 12,250 jobs for the region.

 

Northeast Partnership CEO Rick Watson developed the concept for the theater and recruited Randy Parton to participate. Watson persuaded Roanoke Rapids officials they were competing with other North Carolina communities in his 16-county region to land the project. Watson’s conflict of interest became public after CJ revealed he had a one-third ownership interest in Parton’s company, Moonlight Bandit Productions. The partnership’s board of directors terminated Watson in 2006 for working for Parton while still being paid for his state-funded economic development job.

 

Parton invested none of his own money, the city borrowed $21 million, and state agencies added about $6 million to launch the project. State Senate leader Marc Basnight, House Speaker Jim Black, and the Department of Transportation under Gov. Mike Easley championed the project.

 

City officials had bet on Parton’s ability to manage the theater competently and attract enough customers to cover expenses. Before coming to Roanoke Rapids, Parton played at the Dollywood Amusement Park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.

 

Before the theater opened, Carolina Journal documented questionable feasibility studies, unrealistic economic impact forecasts, conflicts of interest, lack of transparency, reckless spending, a marketing campaign that was never funded, and Parton’s lack of management experience.

 

The theater opened in July 2007 as the Randy Parton Theatre. Parton performed with his newly formed band Moonlight Bandits. The first shows were well-attended, but the number of empty seats grew steadily over the next few months. Some nights fewer than 100 people showed up.

 

On Dec. 6, 2007, just as Parton was getting ready to take the stage, city officials determined he was under the influence of alcohol and sent him home. He never performed at the theater again, and the city renamed the facility the Roanoke Rapids Theatre.

Anonymous ID: 561e1b Feb. 1, 2021, 8:06 p.m. No.12796039   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>12795884

 

On Dec. 6, 2007, just as Parton was getting ready to take the stage, city officials determined he was under the influence of alcohol and sent him home.

 

He never performed at the theater again, and the city renamed the facility the Roanoke Rapids Theatre.