What? No one told you about that? The north end of the shopping center where the Family Dollar store is located and one empty space next door to the Family Dollar look brand new. And it was done at taxpayer expense. So why are we now seeing pictures at the City Council meeting of a completely different shopping center facade?
Could it be because everything about this entire process has been a facade? As in false front?
In the comments at What The Media And The City Aren't Telling You About The Renaissance Community Co-op Part 1, Mayoral candidate, George Hartzman explains why the developers returned:
"The developers came back in when another mill was thrown into the mix.
Bessemer wants 10-15% commissions on leasing the rest of the commercial spaces at regular lease pricing, to benefit from the gov $ injected into the project.
They will not have "built" that.
They are just taking advantage of a rigged bidding and political system."
At this point it's really hard to believe anything else. So now the question becomes why did the City of Greensboro at another $Million Dollars to the incentives and whose decision was it to do so? Denise? Robbie? Andy Scott? Anyone care to answer or do I just keep digging until you are in so deep you never see the light of day again?
Let's not forget, both Carr and Alston already have schemes in the making to boot the co-op out of the shopping center and replace them with higher paying tenants.
And who are Skip Alston's foreign investors in the Renaissance Center of Greensboro, LLC? You know, the company with the name designed to confuse you into thinking it is somehow one in the same with the Renaissance Community Co-op. The company is not registered with the State of North Carolina as a legal entity and none of the documents made available to the public have any names on them. Accuse me of hyperboil but for all we know the City of Greensboro could be preparing to funnel money to foreign terrorists.
Okay, I don't really believe these guys are terrorists. I sat beside them at the City Council meeting and they seemed okay but seriously, what kind of city does business with mystery men and thinks it's an acceptable way of doing business? Denise, did the thought ever cross your mind that there might be neighborhood concerns about where local dollars are spent? Are you so unfamiliar with the million year old history of cooperatives that it just flew over your head? Have you not been paying attention to our buy local campaign funded in-part by the City of Greensboro? Is it true that women lose brain cells when they have babies? Cause if it is you had better not have no more babies, Girl, you hear me?
What, would you rather I accuse you of being a crook? Coming right up!
What else are the City of Greensboro and the media not telling you about the Renaissance Center redevelopment proposals? Everything that was said by Renaissance Community Co-op members and organizers, Tavish Warren, Louis Beveridge, Casey Thomas and so much more. has been left in the dark hoping we would never hear their voices, never hear the truth. And why would our "leaders" want you to hear what Casey, Tavish and Louis have to say when the very idea of working class poor people forming cooperatives threatens the very developer driven "economic development" model that allows men like George Carr and Skip Alston to rob the taxpayers in the first place?
And while it appears I might have been off on the actual numbers working mostly from my head, the truth remains: Skip Alston, George Carr, Jim Key, Denise Turner Roth, Mayor Robbie Perkins, Andy Scott and others have corrupted the process to the point that none of them can be trusted to govern over the process.
If this if the first post here you have ever read, go to What The Media And The City Aren't Telling You About The Rennanance Community Co-op Part 1 start at the beginning and read the entire series. I promise you will never trust Greensboro government again.
Want to do something about it? Join us on Thursday. May 16, 2013; 5:30 P.M. Be there or keep getting ripped off.
Want the entire RCC story going back months? That was the link.
Shall I add a Part 6 or are Greensboro Government officials ready to make clear what has actually been going on? Yes, as a matter of fact there is more, it's just a matter of who tells it as to how the voters perceive it.
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