"The most likely sustainable tenants for the property look to be those who can end up owning it, so they wouldn't have to pay rent after x years, and just pay the property tax.
Setting up a developer with taxpayer money to extract rent from a co-op on what is now taxpayer owned property seems like cronyism.
Having Skip Alston involved makes it look crooked from the outset.
We can do the same stuff, and things will remain the same, or we can stake out new ground, and start doing what’s in the best interests of those in that neighborhood.
I believe what’s in the best interests of that neighborhood is the lowest cost retail space for what seems like will be relatively low margin consumer services type businesses.
A co-op could thrive there if it doesn’t have an entrenched crony squeezing rents/profits garnered from everyone else’s tax money and guarantees."
To which I add, why are Greensboro's "leaders" so scared of one grocery store in one poor working class neighborhood that doesn't have a grocery store that they would literally spend $Millions of taxpayer Dollars to prevent us from having it?
