Opinion
Greensboro’s downtown fight is warning to rest of NC
Don’t assume your city is immune. The same debates about safety, homelessness, parking, and public trust are simmering under the surface.
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JetZero lands in the Carolina Core
When JetZero announced its decision to build a $4.7 billion advanced manufacturing facility at Piedmont Triad International Airport, the headlines were loud. But even louder will be the ripple effects felt across our communities in the coming years. This isn’t just another big announcement. It’s transformational. With over 14,700 new jobs promised — the largest job-creating...
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Developer Sues Greensboro, Saying Stiffed Him on Grant
GREENSBORO — In the lawsuit, developer Eric Robert claims Greensboro “has breached the contracts it entered into to fund the South Elm Street Redevelopment by failing and refusing to provide any funds for the remediation or renovation of the Mill, proximately causing Mr. Robert and QUB to suffer actual, special incidental and consequential damage. …” The suit also cites a March 11, 2012 meeting with Mayor Robbie Perkins and interim City Manager Denise Turner Roth in which they “represented to Mr. Robert that funds [would be paid] in late 2013.”
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Greensboro Banking On Campus To Jumpstart Downtown
GREENSBORO — Tentatively named “Downtown University Campus,” local officials say the mixed-use development, which among other things will provide a presence for the city’s seven colleges and universities, along with Moses Cone Healthcare, “will be a great place to live, work, play — and study,” said Mayor–elect Nancy Vaughan.
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Local Issues Drove Local Voters, Analysts Say
RALEIGH — More than 1,100 candidates or ballot measures were decided by voters, according to the State Board of Elections. Nearly a half-million North Carolinians voted, a turnout rate of nearly 14.4 percent. One analyst notes that the results in mayoral races in most major cities underscored the growth of Democratic Party influence in the state's largest urban areas.
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HP Mayor Rejects Call From Council To Resign
HIGH POINT — Mayor Bernita Sims has a variety of personal financial issues. Her biggest concern is a State Bureau of Investigation probe into Sims’ handling of her deceased sister’s estate. The probe stems from allegations reported in May that Sims wrote her other sister a worthless $7,000 check as part of the settlement of the estate.
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Greensboro Takes First Steps Toward Performing Arts Center
GREENSBORO — A performing arts center has been an issue in Greensboro for some time now. The city has the 23,000-seat Greensboro Coliseum, which regularly has hosted the ACC basketball tournament and also draws big-name concert acts. But events attracting a smaller audience — Broadway shows, for example — are left to the adjacent War Memorial Auditorium, now more than 50 years old, and in bad repair.
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Adopt or Accept? Definition Could Affect Downtown Greensboro
GREENSBORO — During its last two meetings, the council has been presented with plans that could alter the city’s future radically. In both cases, the council voted to “accept” those plans rather than “adopt” them.
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Greensboro Frets About Coliseum’s Future
GREENSBORO — Even as the Greensboro Coliseum grapples with yet another budget deficit, expenses related to the coliseum complex just seem to keep growing.
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Controversial landfill spurs trash talk in Greensboro
GREENSBORO — There’s some serious trash-talking going on in Greensboro. For the second time in just over a year, the city is debating whether to reopen the White Street municipal landfill to household garbage. Opponents who live near the landfill say the smell and truck traffic harm their quality of life, while the main proponent calls the original closure of the landfill the “worst economic decision” since the city was founded.
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Auditorium Retrofit Nixed in Greensboro
GREENSBORO — Greensboro voters might have turned down a $50 million bond to retrofit the city-owned War Memorial Auditorium, but there’s still plenty of public money waiting to be spent on the immediate area surrounding the deteriorating auditorium.
