Ignoring Our Greensboro Communities Is Deliberate

As if there was ever any doubt that the people in charge of building a downtown Greensboro performing arts center ever cared about anything other than Greensboro's more affluent neighborhoods we have the following admissions from their meeting minutes.

From the minutes of the Greensboro Performing Arts Center, Community Engagement Committee, March 14, 2012:

"We were reminded that our charge was to create an economic report and feasibility study of a downtown performing arts center.

It's as if the rest of Greensboro never existed.

And from their Febuary 23, 2012 minutes:

"How do we present ourselves as neutral?"

Easy, you consider the fact that other communities other than downtown might be good places to build Greensboro's performing arts center? Then you come out and say it.

Continue reading article #75. It Has To Start In Downtown Greensboro.