Friday, January 27, 2012

Why Not East Greensboro?

The Greensboro City Council recently added a bond referendum to the November 2012 election ballot proposing to spend as much as $72 Million Dollars to build a downtown performing arts center. Some people would prefer that the performing arts center be placed in the already monstrous Greensboro Coliseum Complex.

But there are those among us who think that East Greensboro, in particular, the City owned, abandoned Bessemer Shopping Center located at the intersection of Phillips Avenue and Elwell Avenue as shown on the map below, would be a much better location for the Greensboro Performing Arts Center.


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In the coming days, myself and others will use this blog to lay out exactly why locating Greensboro's Performing Arts Center at this location will be a better long term alternative for not only East Greensboro but all of Greensboro and Guilford County.

Continue to article #2 Location, Location, Location.