Prepared by the partnership, the plan calls for:
l Working with the city of Greensboro and others to develop a Lee Street/High Point Road corridor that would stretch from Interstate 40/85 in the east to I-40 in the west.
*Developing a political institute to educate current elected officials and candidates for local government on issues of interest to the business community.
*Working with Burlington and Alamance County on the possibility of converting the Guilford County Prison Farm into a future development site.
*Developing a downtown higher education presence that could include residential students.
*Supporting new programs in entrepreneurism for K-12 students.
*Expanding the availability of construction-ready sites in the county.
*Continuing efforts to attract young professionals to the community.
*Supporting the modernization of the North Carolina tax code.
*And working to complete the greenway, a four-mile, $26 million recreational loop around the center city.
But no mention of Northeast Greensboro-- why? Lots of hidden talk ("modernization of the North Carolina tax code") about using a regressive tax on Greensboro's poor to support new projects outside of the city limits but no mention of the crumbling neighborhoods between Downtown and the city limits-- why?
Previous projects involving the Greensboro Partnership include "a new minor-league baseball stadium, the Elon University School of Law, Center City Park, a new runway at Piedmont Triad International Airport, Randleman Regional Reservoir, construction on the Greensboro Urban Loop, the International Civil Rights Center & Museum, Gateway University Research Park and the new aquatics center, amphitheater and ACC Hall of Champions at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex."
But nothing in Northeast Greensboro... Not even the East Greensboro Performing Arts Center.
Why do they even call it The Greensboro Partnership when most of Greensboro isn't even included in their plans?
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