Economy
Asda dominates the area with their re-built (in March 1998) 24 hour superstore on Newark Road towards the district boundary (Tritton Road - B1003) with the City of Lincoln. There is a new Co-op near the junction of Lincoln Road, Mill Lane, and Moor Lane, with a small collection of shops and medical practice. Most local shops are on Newark Road in The Forum, where a Tesco Express has recently opened.
The Lindum Group have a large site on Station Road which is home to the several businesses comprising the Lindum Group and a number of other businesses, some of which are closely associated with the group. ASC Metals make metal sheets and tubes. There are engineering companies on Freeman Road, near the railway station, including Siemens (former Alstom Power). There was a foundry called Lincoln Castings on Station Road which closed in February 2007; the last owners were the Meade Corporation of Malmesbury.
There is a sailing club and other activities on Apex Lake (formed from a former sand and gravel pit). Nearby is Whisby Nature Park. The Lincolnshire Road Transport Museum is on Whisby Road near the railway station.
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Famous quotes containing the word economy:
“I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we prudently save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical terms.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)
“Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.”
—Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)
“The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get “a good job,” but to perform well a certain work; and, even in a pecuniary sense, it would be economy for a town to pay its laborers so well that they would not feel that they were working for low ends, as for a livelihood merely, but for scientific, or even moral ends. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)