Monday, March 19, 2012

Falling Short Of Expectations

Unlike promoters of a downtown Greensboro performing arts center, I'll not make any predictions as to how well a Northeast Greensboro performing arts center might do for if I were to make such predictions they would be fabricated in the same way as were predictions for the The ACC Hall of Champions were fabricated by Matt Brown, who has also been appointed to manage the downtown PAC.

My entire premise for building Greensboro's performing arts center inside the little green circle in Northeast Greensboro is that every Greensboro community has the right and the expectation to share in the amenities and prosperity that we-the-taxpayers have been paying for. If the economic hocus-pocus works then a PAC in Northeast Greensboro will be the shot in the arm our community needs. And if the magic really is just smoke and mirrors then this is our chance to prove it once and for all. I mean, seriously, how has all the $Millions spent downtown worked out so far?

Neighborhoods outside of downtown and Northwest Greensboro deserve to have the same chance and the same public investments as downtown and until the ballot reflects plans to build Greensboro's performing arts center in Northeast Greensboro, I urge you to vote against it.

Continue to article #71. An Open Letter To The NC Justice Center.