Mayor Robme Perkins has announced an East Greensboro Summit for October 29th where he hopes to patch things up between folks here in my East Greensboro neighborhood and his cronies who are planning to raid the coffers of the entire City of Greensboro to build a downtown Greensboro performing arts center.
Robme can be expected to make up some stories about the great things he's done for East Greensboro and will no doubt mention his thousand acres of empty promises.
Rumor has it that Robme is also working on a plan to put a Food Lion Grocery Store in the old Bessemer Shopping Center located inside the little green circle where I live and will make that announcement at his summit. But Robme's Food Lion plan is dangerously flawed.
If Robme gets a Food Lion in the Bessemer Shopping Center then my guess is he'll have to use incentives to do it. Incentives to a multibillion dollar multinational corporation? Then, as soon as the urban loop is built or the East Cone Blvd extension is completed, a shiny new shopping center will be built and Food Lion will move leaving us right back where we started and Robme's commercial real estate company will without a doubt be the company that sells these new shopping center properties. Robme's plan sucks! That is, unless you're Robme.
Soon, I'll be announcing the first meeting of Real Progress For Greensboro and a lower cost economic development plan for my East Greensboro neighborhood that is a model that will save the City Millions of Dollars and can be duplicated in neighborhoods all over Greensboro-- even Irving Park. My solution is a permanent solution that keeps Greensboro's money in Greensboro instead of sending the profits off to Salisbury or Food Lion's parent company in Belgium. My plan doesn't suck! That is, unless you're Robme.
