Tit For Tat: The Greensboro Inn Comes Back

 Hell came early... I couldn't wait any longer for Monday to come...

Remember the fuss a while back about the Greensboro Inn 135 Summit Ave in Downtown Greensboro? You know, the flophouse the City wanted closed because of all the crime and prostitution there? Yeah, that one.


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Well it has come to my attention that despite what you might have heard to the contrary, the GPAC Task Force and the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro along with Mayor Robbie Perkins, Nancy Hoffmann and Nancy Vaughan have worked out a little deal with the owners of the Greensboro Inn in exchange for forcing them out of business and taking their property to build that new downtown park Walker Sanders is salivating to build with that rich widow's endowment.

But first, who owns the Greensboro Inn? According to Guilford County Real Property Data that would be KHAN AND KHAN INC. The Kahn family, the same folks who own convenience stores all over Greensboro, the same Kahn family who is partnered with Shehzad Akbar and Shehzad Quamar who according to the News & Record, own the Clarion Greensboro Airport Hotel. But the Clarion Hotel actually belongs to (drumroll please) the Kahn family! That is, if Guilford County records are correct.

So what has this got to do with anything? Well it just so happens that Shehzad Akbar and Shehzad Quamar are the developers who were given the Bessemer Shopping Center along with $2 Million Dollars in forgivable loans just 2 weeks ago tomorrow. Were Shehzad Akbar, Shehzad Quamar and members of the Kahn family given a shopping center and $2 Million Dollars in exchange for a downtown property on which to build a downtown performing arts center and privately owned park?

I don't think you need a tin foil hat to see it. East Greensboro has been sold out to build the downtown performing arts center.

And folks, Hell Day ain't over, not by a long shot. If I were seated on the Greensboro City Council I'd be calling my lawyer ASAP. And perhaps hiring a few personal body guards. A few dozen, that is.

In Greensboro There's Public Nuisance And Then There's Public Nuisance

I give you a partial listing of crimes responded to at the Homestead Lodge, 115 E Carteret St since Jan 1 2007. That's no less thay 117 instances as I'm still waiting on records from the Giulford County Sheriff's Department and North Carolina Highway Patrol. For reference, this is the motel located at the northeast corner of I40 and South Elm-Eugene St. Link to Google map: http://goo.gl/maps/kTu2x

Don't you find it strange that the City of Greensboro didn't take the Homestead Lodge from its owners as being a public nuisance when just a few months ago the City declared the Greensboro Inn (located downtown) a public nuisance for only 102 crimes committed at the Greensboro Inn?


And let's not forget, the Greensboro Inn was the subject of a deliberate police investigation. Had GPD also been investigating the Homestead Lodge surely they would have uncovered more.

So what do these 2 motels have in common? Besides being very seedy places? According to the Guilford County Registar of Deeds, both properties are owned by the same owners. That's right, the Kahn family, the same people who own seedy convienience stores all over Greensboro and cheap hotels all across the nation. The same people who take their profits out of our communities, out of the United States leaving our communities poor. The same people who were given $2 Million Dollars and a shopping center by the Greensboro City Council just weeks ago.

Now why would the Greensboro City Council move forward on excercising its right to take one property when another property owned by the same ownership group is a bigger offender? The answer: I was right when I wrote the Greensboro Inn was swapped for the Bessemer Shopping Center.

There's been a lot of police investigations going on in Greensboro in recent years, too bad none of it is being directed at City Council, city staff and the "non profit" elites and their developer cronies. 

What Are Kaplan And Kern Planning For Downtown Greensboro?

One of the companies mentioned in today's News & Record article, Some people, businesses roll the dice on taxes is Greensboro Hotel Holdings who owes 34,553.10 pending litigation for tax foreclosure.

According to the NC Secretary of State their address is 110 SENECA ROAD GREENSBORO NC 27406  a former Denny's Restaurant apparently now vacant and available for rent.with their corporate headquarters being 901 SE 17TH STREET, STE. 206 FORT LAUDERDALE FL 33316 who is in-fact a loan servicer known as HPC LOAN SERVICER, LLC  of the same address.

But the picture showed a Carolina Country Kitchen there so it's back to the NC Secretary of State where I learned that Carolina Country Kitchen, an alias for THE CARIBBEAN 1830 RESTAURANT & CAFETERIA, INC. that was suspended by the NC Secretary of State in 2006...

But then it hit me, this is also the location of the Knight's Inn, "part of Wyndham Hotel Group" which according to the Knight's Inn website is now a Super 8 Motel. In other words, a Wyndham Hotel Group dump that owes back taxes to the City of Greensboro.
Is this what Kaplan and Kern have planned for $8 Million Dollars in incentives from the City of Greensboro? A downtown Wyndham turned Knight's Inn turned Super 8 Motel and someday turned another Greensboro Inn? Luckily, the citizens of Greensboro only paid to buy the Greensboro Inn on 1 occasion-- when the City of Greensboro seized the property to build the Greensboro Performing Arts Center. 

More Trouble Greensboro's Homestead Lodge

Previously I wrote of how the Homestead Lodge was even worse than the Greensboro Inn and yet while the Greensboro Inn was taken from its owners by the City of Greensboro, the Homestead Lodge was not. This morning, from the Greensboro Police Department:

GREENSBORO POLICE DEPARTMENT PRESS RELEASE - AGGRAVATED ASSAULT - jULY 21, 2013

 

Clodfelter, Jean	6:11 AM (2 hours ago)
to Police, Global, City

At 04:40 A.M. Police were dispatched to 115 East Carteret Street (Homestead Lodge), regarding a shooting victim. Upon arrival, they located Michael A. Chapman (b/m 28 years of age).  Officers learned that he had been at the Comfort Inn located at 1103 Lanada Road and was shot there.  Michael advised that it happened while on the inside of his vehicle.  He was then able to drive to the Homestead Lodge where he was located by police officers.  He was transported by EMS to a local hospital for life threatening injuries.

The investigation is ongoing at this time.

Southern District Officers, CID, and CSI attended the scene.

Anyone with any information is asked to call Crime stoppers at 373-1000

Sent Authority: Lt. M. G Terry, Watch Commander 

                                                           

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Please note that email sent to and from this address is subject
to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties.

The Comfort Inn is owned by SAHIL HOSPITALITY INC  2006 VEASLEY ST whose president NAYAN PATEL lives in Jamestown as does Khan A Khan, owner of the Homestead Lodge and the Greensboro Inn. I'm betting all these businesses have family ties.

Looks Like I Was Right About The Greensboro Inn Swap For The Bessemer Shopping Center

It costs a lot of money to hire professionals to do the kinds of art work demanded by folks like Mayor Robbie Perkins, Walker Sanders and the Community Foundation Of Greater Greensboro. That's why I believe the links you're about to view is probably the real deal. To the top of the picture is labeled New Construction Mixed Use. That's where the Greensboro Inn stands today.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/1oh7_dYing22gWAyRFL-DsOvNO5YOrslcDaznJ3WcAPZ1d-WVDtxdPk3P-AS-/edit?usp=sharing

 https://docs.google.com/file/d/1ZcV6Y1-vSAh3rsZeNoSsVSxXk3RZJJKAF7Nrt130x71hY3uiA6BjSJ4kui5H/edit?usp=sharing

Now read my original post, Tit For Tat: The Greensboro Inn Comes Back  and tell me if you believe I am wrong in saying that Northeast Greensboro, the Renaissance Community Coop and the City of Greensboro as a whole has not been sold out in backroom dealings to benefit developers and key supporters of the Greensboro Performing Arts Center?

Nancy Baracat Vaughn: this is your water, drink!

Allen Johnson: Lies Of Omission

From Allen Johnson, East Greensboro is Ohio in 2013 on economic development in East Greensboro and the idea that my neighborhood should think bigger than  a strip shopping center and a grocery on Phillips Avenue.

"Such an idea has been broached but needs to be seriously pursued. The city is good for coming up with plans."

If our leaders were really interested in economic development, if they really cared: http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/search/label/If%20They%20Cared
50 ideas for real economic development that don't involve bulldozers and carry less risk.

To date: the ONLY plan presented by the city ( http://www.slideshare.net/EmsDC/strategic-plan-for-east-greensboro ) has been "strip shopping centers" (plural) and grocery stores. Apparently the city isn't as good at coming up with plans as Allen Johnson would like to make them out to be.

As a matter of fact: the plan proposed by the city and Mayor Robbie Perkins is a very bad plan for East Greensboro because it will bring ONLY minimum wage jobs and take the profits out of East Greensboro and out of the City of Greensboro as a whole.

You can bet it will make Robme Perkins and his developer buddies a mint. But let's not let the truth get in the way, shall we, Allen? After all, these are the same guys who traded the Greensboro Inn for the Bessemer Shopping Center and sold out East Greensboro as part of the deal: http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2013/06/tit-for-tat-greensboro-inn-comes-back.html
with imaginary appraisals http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2013/06/imaginary-bessemer-shopping-center.html of which you, Allen Johnson, are fully aware of because you, like myself, are included in George Hartzman's e-mail threads along with dozens of others including journalists, bloggers, city officials, city legal staff and the entirety of City Council.

Your lies of omission are being heard, Allen. Loud and clear.

And of course Allen leaves out the long term goals of the Renaissance Community Coop http://renaissancecoop.com/ that include expanding the model to include not only all of East Greensboro but the City as a whole. It's easy to see where the News & Record stands. But let's not let the truth get in the way of our pay checks, shall we Allen Johnson, childhood resident of the Phillips Avenue community who has now turned his back on his own people-- the people he left behind so he could rub shoulders with Greensboro's elite.

Did The illegal Greensboro Inn, Bessemer Shopping Center Swap Kill The Phillips Avenue Community Garden?

Last winter the City of Greensboro and NC A&T University began circulating e-mails asking for suitable locations for a community garden on City Owned property on Phillips Avenue. I e-mailed Greensboro City Manager, Denise Turner Roth using my e-mail address recyclebill@gmail.com and suggested the unused and unpaved portion of the Bessemer Shopping Center. I even told her where I could get chain link fencing and many supplies for free.

I never got a reply from the City Manager. Rude bitch! If I offered to get you a free chain link fence wouldn't you at least say thank you? If memory serves me right I might have also suggested low cost water storage tanks like the ones I use in my garden.

Shortly thereafter, a professor from NC A&T University came to speak at one the early Renaissance Community Co-op meetings to tell us of his plans to bring community gardens to Phillips Avenue.

It's June now and I'm harvesting sweet red tomatoes from my own garden but when I ride my own 150 mile per gallon prototype Wackemall moped up and down Phillips Avenue from one end to the other I can find nothing that looks like a community garden.

Last Thursday, June 13th, I sent what I thought was a simple public information request to the City asking for the location of the Phillips Avenue community garden. Honestly, at that point, as one who grows vegetables and herbs in surplus US Army rocket launchers in my front yard, has backyard chickens and has devoted half my backyard to a vegetable garden since before I was old enough to pull the starter cord on the garden tiller, I honestly wanted to see a community garden, perhaps even help.

But a week later and still no reply from the City of Greensboro-- why?

Then a few minutes ago after making a joke with someone over at NC A&T about my making the City Staff paranoid it hit me: What if the only available site for a community garden on all of Phillips Avenue was in fact the very site I had suggested?

I started doing some online searches and came up with 4 NC A&T community garden projects. Problem is: None of them are in Greensboro.  As a matter of fact, the closest to Greensboro is an hour away in Durham. And the closest community garden in the state directory is Kernersville.

So did the illegal Greensboro Inn, Bessemer Shopping Center swap kill the Phillips Avenue Community Garden? I don't know but one would have thought the City would have replied by now if there really is a Phillips Avenue Community Garden? And if there isn't a Phillips Avenue Community Garden then we've just one more example of how Downtown and filling the pockets of Greensboro's elites take president in the minds of Greensboro's "leaders" over the needs of Greensboro's poor and working class. The very food from our children's mouths! Is there nothing they won't steal from us? Nothing?

 Update: It just doesn't add up. I got a reply today (below) after posting above but if the City already had all of those properties then why did they send out e-mails last winter asking the community where available properties might be located?

Here's a little info on Mr Gayland A Oliver you might find interesting.

Update 2

According to this 2012 page on Minister Gayland Oliver he "co-opened Triad Centers for Youth, Inc in 2009 and continues to manage the daily operations of the home" but according to the NC Secretary of State, the Triad Centers for Youth, Inc operated by "Minister Gayland Oliver" was suspended by the State of North Carolina in 2007, five years before the "minister's" web page was last copyrighted.

I'm wondering what was known about Mr Oliver before the City of Greensboro gave him $41,000 Dollars and how it was that he happened to leave the "non profit" school he co-founded in Little Rock, Arkansas? And I'm wondering if the good minister is still running the Triad Centers For Youth, Inc out of his home? Must be tough with all those kids in the house.

How Greensboro's News and Record tries to effect the outcomes of elections; Congressional Candidate Kathy Manning edition

“It’s been in our pipeline,” said Mitul Patel, a company partner. “We have other projects we’ve been working on.”

The Patel's are paying for their own 150 space parking deck, 

in which not one patron of the performing arts center will ever park in, 

according to Kathy Manning, Walker Sanders Matt Brown and Greensboro's City Council,

as if anyone attending the STPAC doesn't park in the VIP parking at $20 per space, 

or a City owned parking deck at $5 a space,

the math used to justify the financing for the center is a fraud

The Hampton Inn is one of a trio of new hotels planned for a downtown that hasn’t seen a new hotel in decades.

Developer Roy Carroll will likely open a business-traveler oriented Hyatt Place on North Eugene Street by the end of the year as part of his $70 million Carroll at Bellemeade apartment project.

The city of Greensboro is in the process of building a [$30 million taxpayer funded] parking deck at the corner of Davie Street and February One Place that will serve as the base for a 10-story upscale Westin Hotel to be built by another development group."

Otherwise known as Congressional Candidate Kathy Manning's husband Randall Kaplan, 

as they profit from a taxpayer funded boondoggle thanks to Greensboro's City Council, 

after Kathy was complicit in lying to Greensboro's taxpayers 

as to how the performing arts center is to be paid for

https://www.greensboro.com/business/local_business/local-hotel-builder-plans-downtown-hampton-inn-suites/article_ab913891-21a0-5b67-bdef-aa78237b5246.html

The News and Record's Richard Barron wrote an article

misleading our community as to a candidate for an upcoming election

is going to profit from a taxpayer funded parking deck 

and a performing arts center whose financing is bogus,

and Publisher/Editor Daniel Finnegan; (336) 373-7300 

and Triad Executive Editorial Page Editor Allen Johnson; (336) 373-7010 

don't seem to mind at all, as the News and Record real estate is under contract

with Greg Dillon, one of Randall Kaplan's partners in the hotel. 

300 more seats than DPAC
with an average household income
of $20,000 less in the Greensboro metropolitan area.

If an STPAC patron were to drive down Elm Street at 10pm after a show,
it's not going to be what most white folks would consider to be a safe feeling scene.

Kathy, Randall and Roy Carroll are building a performing arts center for profit,
very near the poorest part of Greensboro,
with no natural barrier or otherwise keeping out those considered unsightly,
many of whom are within walking distance,
by the upper crust who just enjoyed an opera who are supposedly going to pay
$20 a piece for 330 parking spots 142 times per year.

Walker Sanders, Nancy Vaughan, Rick Lusk, Kathy Manning and Matt Brown

committed an act of fraud against Greensboro's taxpayers and securities investors

via fraudulent financial projections 

based on unsustainable and blatantly misleading math,

and the News and Record never reported it.

There is almost no way to get in and out anywhere near as quickly as DPAC,
which is clean to the point of sterile, and has a fake river running through.

White elephant TPAC may be,
after being misled by many who stand to personally profit from the project,
like John Hammer, Roy Carroll, Randall Kaplan and Kathy Manning.
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How the News and Record rigs elections for the status quo; "Candidates for Greensboro mayor offer different visions for city"


http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2017/10/how-news-and-record-rigs-elections-for.html
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Greensboro's City Council violated their oaths of office;

...lawful oaths for discovery of truth and establishing right 

are necessary and highly conducive to the important end of good government; 

and being most solemn appeals to Almighty God, 

as the omniscient witness of truth and the just and omnipotent avenger of falsehood, 

and whereas, lawful affirmations for the discovery of truth and establishing right 

are necessary and highly conducive to the important end of good government, 

therefore, such oaths and affirmations ought to be taken and administered

with the utmost solemnity.

§ 11-1. Oaths and affirmations to be administered with solemnity

Discovery of truth on TPAC didn't happen, and if it did, voting for the measures was a violation of the City of Greensboro oath of office and an unfaithful act, and the News and Record didn't report it.

Greensboro's City Council violated their oaths of office, based on a willful, premeditated fraud on the City's taxpayers, and the News and Record didn't report it.

"An oath of office is an oath or affirmation a person takes before undertaking the duties of an office, usually a position in government or within a religious body...

Some oaths of office are a statement of loyalty to a constitution or other legal text or to a person or other office-holder

Under the laws of a state it may be considered treason or a high crime to betray a sworn oath of office."


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_office
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Proof of Control Fraud by Kathy Manning, City of Greensboro's Matt Brown, CFGG's Walker Sanders and everyone else who knew and didn't say anything, especially the elected officials who voted for it

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2018/05/proof-of-control-fraud-by-kathy-manning.html

Our community has been designed for a political and business elite 

to enrich themselves at the expense of everyone else

Much of the population endures economic frustrations 

as the connected prosper upon the many

Poverty grew in Greensboro by 85% between 2000 and 2016,

under the watchful eyes of our elected leaders

and the oligarchs who own their decision making

Could many who believe Greensboro's government

should pledge their children’s future income

to prevent the failure of local businesses like Kathy Manning and Randall Kaplan's 

be indirectly advocating a political system other than capitalistic democracy?

Matt Brown, Kathy Manning and Walker Sanders betrayed our community

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2018/07/matt-brown-kathy-manning-and-walker.html

How should Greensboro's residents respond if the City's economic and political leadership

rigged the local economy for themselves and their benefactors

with the help of a compliant press?

The math in Matt Brown's email and what was presented to the public on STPAC is the same

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-math-in-matt-browns-email-and-what.html

An interesting conversation between former NC District Congressional Candidate A.W. Coker, Wayne Abraham and Hartzman on Matt Brown, Nancy Vaughan and friend's fraud against Greensboro's taxpayers

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2018/06/an-interesting-conversation-between.html

Some of who enabled and/or committed fraud against Greensboro taxpayers and the investors who purchased STPAC bonds; Greensboro, NC's $44.165 million LOBs, Series 2018, and some records requests

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2018/06/some-of-who-enabled-andor-committed.html

Justin Outling and the Agapion's

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2018/06/justin-outling-and-agapions.html

Socioeconomic disharmonies will likely increase.

They’re insulated from many of the effects of their decisions.

Current Greensboro City Council Members and Candidates for local elected office, should be prohibited from accepting campaign contributions from board members of organizations, developers, contractors or their lawyers or agents who have or may receive taxpayer funded contracts or monies, for 12 months before and after doing business with Greensboro’s government.

Nancy Barakat Vaughan Proves She Hasn't The Stones, Brains, Or Integrity To Be Mayor Of Dogpatch

Much less Greensboro

By now you've already learned of how the Bessemer Shopping Center and $2 Million Dollars of taxpayer dollars was traded to corrupt developers in a backroom deal for a choice piece of property in Downtown Greensboro upon which to build a privately owned park and the Greensboro Performing Arts Center.

Facebook will no doubt be the end of Councilwoman Vaughan's hopes for becoming Mayor of Greensboro. Problem is: If Nancy gives up Facebook now she's equally doomed. I'll explain.From a Facebook conversation she and I had concerning the failure of the Greensboro City Council and City Staff to properly address the handling of the rennovation of the Renaissance Community Co-op.

 "Billy you are wrong! At the May meeting we instructed staff to come back with a price for the City to rehab. We were told it would take six weeks, I asked them to do it in four. If you were watching the meeting last Tuesday you would have seen that there was NO city option offered. I pushed staff on what that number would be and all I got was a bunch of mambo jumbo because they said they didn't have a chance to go out to the job site and review it in depth. But that they were comfortable we could save some money off of the new Bessemer price But they were not willing to give a dollar value."

To which I replied:

"Nancy wrote, "At the May meeting we instructed staff to come back with a price for the City to rehab. We were told it would take six weeks" So City staff completely disregards an order by the Greensboro City Council, brings back 4 proposals from 2 developers http://www.greensboro-nc.gov/index.aspx?page=4077
and includes NO NUMBERS AS ORDERED BY COUNCIL and you and 8 other council members have no problem continuing with the process and voting to give the shopping center to 2 men who turn out to be tax evaders who owe tens of thousands of dollars to the City of Greensboro. http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2013/06/two-more-frogs-come-to-greensboro.html
Since when did City Council start taking orders from city staff? Rewarding the crooks? Is that how you plan to do things when you become mayor? We'd be better off with Robbie Perkins. Sure he's a crook but at least the guy has brains enough to know what's going on."

And you all know how much I hate Robbie Perkins.

On top of that, she admits that City Staff said the City could do the job cheaper than the developers and yet none of the 9 members of Greensboro City Council including Nancy Barakat Vaughan bothers to make a motion to delay voting until City Staff can come back with real numbers. Instead, Council votes 5-4 to give $2 Million Dollars in forgivable loans to a couple of shady developers with a history of evading City of Greensboro taxes to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars. Yeah, like those loans will ever get repaid.


Here is the oppourtunity of a lifetime for any local politican to shine: Corrupt developers seize control of a property Councilwoman Vaughan voted against letting them have, angering local conservatives who are furious that $2 Million in tax Dollars has been given to crooks and angering local liberal who are furious that local elites have stolen a community co-op grocery store right out from under them. And I'm leading the horse to the water.

Astitute politicans live for problems like this. But Nancy won't drink. She thinks it's all about her.

Yep, Nancy was right, I was wrong, Roch reviewed the videos and noted it just as I knew he would. I knew I could count on Roch even without asking. Even without Roch knowing what I was up to. That's what I love about Roch, he holds me to the facts. The City didn't come back with the numbers as they were instructed to do by Council.  To quote Roch,

"staff declined to provide it for consideration at the June meeting and even refused to provide it when asked by Nancy. "

Really, staff refused their bosses? And Council, including Nancy Barakat Vaughan, proved they haven't got what it takes to run a city by letting staff and the criminals get away with it.

In the private sector, none of these people including Nancy Barakat Vaughan, would still have their jobs the next morning but here we are THIRTEEN days later and everyone involved is still on payroll? But then housewives who dabble in politics wouldn't know about those things, would they?

It's called fishing, Nancy. You should take it up. You might learn a few things.

All the while I was dropping hints to Nancy on Facebook. She expressed to some people privatly that she was hurt. Why? Because her ego drove her to believe it was all about Nancy. Those people even asked me to back off on Nancy as a favor to them and I almost did but then I learned even more. It wasn't about Nancy in the beginning but soon it would be.

I first made Nancy aware of the tax issues of the developers chosen by City Council a week ago on Saturday night  thinking that being that as an at-large councilmember who voted against them she would seize on the oppourtunity to show her support for my East Greensboro community. After all, actions do speak louder than words. On Monday night I questioned Nancy again asking,

"How long do you think it should take City Staff to verify that I am right or wrong concerning the following issue? http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2013/06/two-more-frogs-come-to-greensboro.html"

But as you can see by clicking this link https://www.facebook.com/nancy.vaughan/posts/547763645262188  Nancy decided she could make my question disappear and avoid dealing with the issue. Why did Nancy Barakat Vaughan make my simple question disappear? Is Nancy in bed with the developers too?

But at that point in time it was even bigger than I suspected. Nancy was hiding more than I thought possible.

I tried to give her a hint again Tuesday  but she still didn't get it.  I even wrote:

"Damn, Nancy, I'm trying to hand it to you. Do I have to paint you a picture and spell it out? I'm talking about what is going on today and you're bring up ancient history that ain't going to get you squat in my neighborhood." 

To do much more would feel to me like rigging the election in her favor. All the while readers' faith in me was slipping because I deliberatly allowed Nancy to focus her efforts on the smaller issues instead of forcing her to keep her eye on the ball as a compident leader would do without anyone to push or trick him or her into doing so.

But then faith in me isn't the issue, I'm not the one who wants to be mayor of Greensboro nor did I fail to make a motion before Council that could have prevented the city from giving $2 Million Dollars to a bunch of tax cheats.

I wrote this post in advance and checked the newspaper and TV station day after day looking  to see if anyone picked up on the story.  Even after the story grew to include even more shady characters and tax evading millionares the local media and the City Council still didn't utter a word.

I posted my question to Nancy's facebook page again Thursday morning but she managed to delete it before I could get the hyperlink. That's because I was busy doing a screen grab. Lying by ommission is lying just the same. Explain that to your daughter, Nancy. Just because it's politics doesn't make the lies okay. I gave Nancy chance after chance to speak out and do the right thing by Greensboro's working class but instead she chose to hide the very fraud and tax evasion her and the rest of the Greensboro City Council are apparently happy to allow. They figure only a handfull of people will ever read this blog so nothing I write will ever really matter. That's where the rest of you come in. The local media isn't going to cover this story until it has reached every inbox in Greensboro and they're forced to admit it happened. Please send this to everyone you know.

But the story doesn't end with fraud and tax evasion, does it, Nancy?

Nancy Barakat Vaughan's reply as of Thursday, June 13, 2013, five days after I discovered the conspiracy to defraud the City of Greensboro : Crickets... Not a word, not a sound and you can be sure not a single deed in response to the concerns of the voters who just lost $2 Million Dollars to Skip Alston and 3 other shady developers, Shahzad Akbar, Shehzad Quamar, Khan A Khan and most recently, Greensboro City Attorney Sardar Mujeeb Shah-Khan.

This is not how a mayor-- any mayor-- or anyone hoping to become a mayor of any city in a free country responds to concerns of the voters. Mayors don't dodge questions and they don't make those questions go away in the hope that no one will find them. With each passing day the story grows bigger and Nancy does nothing. Mayors act on questions, find the answers, respond with the answers and take action. Nancy Barakat Vaughan did none of those things. Nancy Barakat Vaughan lied.

Actions speak louder than words. It's time this city council got off their fat dais, stopped trying to perfume their bullshit with pretty words and showed us some action. You see, while it might not be about the nail when it comes to Nancy's concerns, when it comes to Greensboro's concerns we want it fixed.

No, it wasn't about Nancy Barakat Vaughan to begin with, but it was Nancy's refusal to act and Nancy's lies of ommission and cover up that made it all about Nancy Barakat Vaughan. But even then I didn't realize the real reason Nancy didn't want folks looking at my links was that it might lead them to the Kahn family who had just traded the Greensboro Inn for the Bessemer Shopping Center to make way for the downtown Greensboro Performing Arts Center at the expence of Greensboro's poor.

By the way, if you're thinking about hiring Bill Burkley for your political advisor... I think Nancy can now tell you he's all washed up, a drunkard and too far behind the times.

 And the notion that City Council Members don't know the outcome before the vote takes place in public view? My June 4, Facebook conversation with Councilwoman Marikay Abuzuaiter during the meeting as I tried to persuade her, Tony Wilkins and Nancy Vaughan to enter a counter motion to sell the shopping center to the community co-op instead. I had to do it in 3 screen grabs to make it all fit.

The comment about TDBS was right after she made her eloquent speech in support of the co-op before she stuck the knife in our backs just as the 8 other council members did that night with lots of pretty words of support while quietly backroom dealing. All 9 spoke out in favor of the co-op, all 9 voted against the co-op twice and gave the shopping center to a group of investors in exchange for a prime piece of downtown real estate chosen for the Greensboro Performing Arts Center and a park to be owned by the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro.

I'm still holding on to hope that Marikay Abuzuaiter is one of the good guys.... I still believe that is the reason those records were "leaked" to Yes Weekly all those months ago. But when every day is a struggle for survival while you stand by and watch your elected leaders give everything that is yours to their cronies, hope wears thin. Knowing what I know now, if I were a young man I'd pick up my guns rather than live the life I've lived all these years.

Don't fear me, fear those who are young and like me... They know what I never knew.

Lies From The Wyndham Hotel Study: Part 2

Yesterday I published Lies From The Wyndham Hotel Study: Part 1. At least 4 members of the Greensboro city council are regretting the day they were born. From Page 2 of the Wyndham Hotel Feasibility Study:

"As discussed further in this letter, from our 2012 work, historically, the Greensboro market has proven its ability to absorb new hotel room supply, most notably, from 2006 to 2011 there was a 25% increase in the room supply and this was absorbed into the market resulting in higher overall market occupancy. Based upon projected unaccomodated demand, we expect this trend to continue with the new supply of rooms from both the Proposed Wyndham Hotel, Greensboro. NC and future rooms as contemplated for other projects."

But is that what really happened. Was there a 25%  increase in the room supply and was this was absorbed into the market? And was the result a higher overall market occupancy?


During that same time period the  Heritage Inn, aka Southgate was converted from a hotel to apartments then torn down. The Cavalier Inn converted to weekly rentals. The Oaks Motel closed for years then reopened as did the Regency Inn Suits. And the 132 room Knights Inn was closed for years and only recently reopened as the I-40 Inn and Suites, so recently in-fact that they still have a temporary sign out front. And those are only the few I know of. How many more closed during that time period?


No, those aren't the types of hotels and motels the downtown Wyndham hopes to compete with bu just so you know, Knights Inn is a Wyndham company. And in times of high demand or in bad economic times these cheap motels are every bit as likely to be filled as any luxury hotel. If not more so.


Oh, and the restaurant at the old Knight's Inn is available for lease. Was it ever really a Denny's? I don't think so.

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Jeff Martin calls this behavior, this lack of transparency, a racist double standard and he's right in that enforcement in Greensboro has long favored white people. After all, in how many cities in America could people gun down other people in front of television cameras watched by millions around the world and no one go to prison?

Please continue reading Lies From The Wyndham Hotel Study: Part 3

EzGreensboro.com, Guts Enough To Tell It Like It Is

On April 21, 2017, in a story titled Illegal Gambling In Greensboro? we told you about Fish Tables. And while we weren't the first to write about them we were the first to tell you that fish tables are illegal in North Carolina.

We even went so far as to tell you who operates some of those illegal fish tables and their ties to the Greensboro City Council:

"Perhaps you remember when those same nice Pakistani merchants sold the Greensboro Inn to the City of Greensboro to make room for the performing arts center or when the Greensboro City Council voted to give them the shopping center on the corner of Phillips and Elwell, free of charge plus give them $2 Million Dollars to fix it up?"

Well today, Fox8 reported, Greensboro police issuing warnings to ‘fish game’ operators:

"Representatives from the Greensboro Police Department are hand-delivering letters to 37 businesses known to have such machines and providing them 30 days to voluntarily comply with the law by ceasing operation of the machines, the release said. After the grace period, owners must comply with the “cease operation” edict or face criminal action. Devices used for fish games may be seized until the matter is heard by the court and may be forfeited if found guilty of the offense."

The article goes on to say the reason these business owners are being warned instead of being charged is that they are not the criminal type. These are the same guys who sell wine and beer for food stamps.

Update: June 13, 2017 WFMY 2 reports in Game Over: Police Cracking Down On 'Fish Table Games' in Greensboro:

“Greensboro’s seen a pattern of violent crime that's been associated with these businesses,” explained Guilford County Sheriff’s Attorney Rick Stevens.

Even though it’s GPD’s crackdown, High Point Police and the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office will be on the lookout for anyone moving a fish game business outside of Greensboro city limits.

“If any vender out there thinks they're going to be closed down by GPD and move their game out into Guilford County, the answer is – that's the wrong answer, because we will shut you down immediately, and we won't give you 30 days written notice to comply,” said Sheriff’s Attorney Jim Secor.

They say operating these machines is illegal -- no matter how much skill is involved, and it's more about making money than for entertainment."

So why is it that no Fish Games ever opened in High Point or Guilford County? Could it be ties to the Greensboro City Council by the Fish House owners?

Considering this same Greensboro City Council once gave these same people a City owned shopping center plus a Million dollars cash with no obligation to pay it back, I think we know the answer.

Eastern Development Growth Enterprise, Inc And Jim Kee

That's one of the corporations run by Gayland Oliver of 4214 LORD JEFF DRIVE in GREENSBORO NC. Another is Triad Centers For Youth, Inc.

Triad Centers For Youth, Inc was incorporated as a for profit business corporation by Gayland Oliver and Lisa Morrison on the 22nd of August 2007. At that point in time the address was listed as 4900 Shady Pine Drive, Greensboro, NC. 27455.

At some point in time, 11 Glendale Oaks Court, Greensboro, NC. 27406 was added to state filings as the principal office mailing address while the Shady Pine address remained the principal office street address. 11 Glendale Oaks Court is a residential dwelling that has been owned by Shannon M Smith since June 6,2000.

Throughout the years there were sporadic efforts made at filing annual reports with the last filing being in May of 2010. In May of 2013, the NC Secretary of State suspended Triad Centers For Youth, Inc.

Other businesses that have come and gone or are otherwise suspect involving Gayland Oliver include:
CENTURY JANITORIAL SERVICES, INC http://www.secretary.state.nc.us/corporations/Corp.aspx?PitemId=8731937http://www.secretary.state.nc.us/corporations/Corp.aspx?PitemId=8731937 in Thomasville, NC.

Life Changing Family Care Home, LLC http://www.secretary.state.nc.us/corporations/searchresults.aspx?onlyactive=OFF&Words=STARTING&searchstr=Life%20Changing%20Family%20Care%20Home,%20LLChttp://www.secretary.state.nc.us/corporations/searchresults.aspx?onlyactive=OFF&Words=STARTING&searchstr=Life%20Changing%20Family%20Care%20Home,%20LLC is associated with Life Changing Experience Outreach Ministries http://www.lifeceom.org/#!lifechome/c1xu8 where Minister Gayland Oliver and Reverend Stephanie Oliver appear to run the entire show. And apparently it is just a show as  Life Changing Experience Outreach Ministries appears to have no state or Federal records of any kind any where.

THE ATHLETIC SUCCESS PROGRAM, INC. http://www.secretary.state.nc.us/corporations/Corp.aspx?PitemId=4842952

CENTURY MEDICAL SUPPLIES, INC. http://www.secretary.state.nc.us/corporations/Corp.aspx?PitemId=7991024 a for profit which is most likely in violation of City of Greensboro zoning ordinances as the address listed is 4214 LORD JEFF DRIVE GREENSBORO NC 27405 and appears to be in violation of City of Greensboro tax codes as zero results returned for Gayland Oliver, Gayland A Oliver or Gayland Anthony Oliver at the City of Greensboro Business Privilege License Lookup. http://www.greensboro-nc.gov/index.aspx?page=2402

EASTERN DEVELOPMENT GROWTH ENTERPRISE, INC. http://www.secretary.state.nc.us/corporations/Corp.aspx?PitemId=9637380  was a for profit which has since been converted to the non profit EASTERN DEVELOPMENT GROWTH ENTERPRISE, INC. http://www.secretary.state.nc.us/corporations/Corp.aspx?PitemId=9552284 and appears to have disappeared or is about to disappear with $41,000 in funding slated for community gardens on Phillips Avenue and Lombardy Street.

And low and behold, KEYSTONE YOUTH SERVICES, INC. http://www.secretary.state.nc.us/corporations/Corp.aspx?PitemId=9036713 4411 BELFIELD DRIVE GREENSBORO NC 27405, which according to the Guilford County Registar of Deeds is owned by none other than James W Kee Jr and his wife, Talma T Kee of 4301 LORD JEFF DRIVE. http://taxweb.co.guilford.nc.us/CamaPublicAccess/PropertySummary.aspx?REID=0079252&pageIndex=0 And just in case you don't know, James W Kee Jr is known around Greensboro as District 2 City Councilman, Jim Kee. As a matter of fact: according to the NC Secretary of State website, Jim Kee and Gayland Oliver are business partners in the venture.

And when City Councilmen have business relationships with people who are recipients of public funding or in this case, city owned property, that's just a little too cozy for open and honest government. Especially when the councilman's partner has a history of assault on a female, insurance fraud and obtaining property by false pretense http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2013/06/but-wait-it-gets-better.html and whose mother operates an unregistered non profit. http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2013/06/hope-valley-outreach-neighborhood.html

And I haven't even gotten around to searching for why Gayland Anthony Oliver https://npiregistry.cms.hhs.gov/NPPESRegistry/DisplayProviderDetails.do?searchNpi=1457534711&city=&firstName=&orgName=&searchType=ind&state=&npi=1457534711&orgDba=&lastName=&zip  left the good life behind in Arkansas. Anyone know where he got his health care degree from? Who wants to bet it's not a real accredited university?

So tell me Jim, my search began with 2 developers who were given the Bessemer Shopping Center and $2 Million Dollars in taxpayer funding, lead us to discover that the Greensboro Inn was secretly traded for the Bessemer Shopping Center, alerted me that the sale by the Redevelopment Commission to build the Dollar General on Phillips Avenue was in violation of the covenant signed with Family Dollar and now leads me through a long list of names straight back to James W Kee Jr... What am I going to find when I start running your name through all those many search engines?

Like I noted on Friday, Councilman Kee, it's time you tendered your resignation from the Greensboro City Council. After all, like my daddy taught me when he was raising me right here in Northeast Greensboro not even 1/2 mile from Jim Kee's house, you are known by the company you keep. And you, Councilman Kee, are in the company of charlatans.

What evil lurks in the heart of men? The Autopost knows.

Greensboro: Giving Incentives To Tax Deliquents

On Tuesday the Greensboro City Council will consider giving an "Investment Grant in the amount of $1,975,000 for the Elm Street Center Hotel LLC project " Problem is: according to the Guilford County Tax Department Elm Street Center Llc currently owes $62, 356.53 in delinquent taxes of which $25,892.02 is owed to the City of Greensboro, $3,274.88 in Downtown Improvement District taxes and $31,520.72 to Guilford County.

You'll also note that Kahn Hotels, the same people who swapped the downtown Greensboro Inn for the Bessemer Shopping Center and are partners in dozens of local convenience stores that trade food stamps for wine, beer and tobacco are delinquent to the tune of $50,613.22. Kann Hotels owns the Airport Clarion Hotel on Swing Road as well as the Heritage Inn.

Guilford Hospatility, owner of the Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites, 3111 Cedar Park Road is delinquent $40,071.80

RH Hospitality Corporation, the owners of the Microtel Inn by Wyndham, located at 4304 Big Tree Way are delinquent $37,403.38

And folks, that's from just the first 2 pages of delinquent listings over $10,000. There are plenty more delinquent hotels I didn't list. This should be the end of this discussion. Period.

To give incentives to people who are behind on their taxes is criminal.

Update:  I missed yesterday was again Elm Street Center Llc, this time their property located at 200 S DAVIE ST, their parking deck $16,500.05, a total of 78,856.58.

Who Is Shree Gee, LLC And Kiran Shah

And Why Is He Still In Business In Greensboro?

Previously I told you of how the owners of Phongsavanh Market were operating an unlicensed and untaxed convenience store in the Glenwood neighborhood and how Ben Holder, after learning they were selling drugs there, was trying to get it shut down.

Yesterday the Greensboro Police Department again raided the store and today the City of Greensboro finally decided to shut it down. But why has it taken so long and why is the store's owner, Kiran Shah of 2824 Pickering Road in Greensboro still allowed to own and operate no less than 10 convenience stores in Greensboro and 1 in High Point?

Even though the State of North Carolina again dissolved as set forth in N.C.G.S. Section 57D-6-06  his company, Shree Gee, LLC  on March 4, 2014? 

According to the US Chamber of Commerce someone at that address does 1/2 Million to 1 Million Dollars a year in business. And Shah Jayshree doesn't pay taxes in North Carolina either.

The proof is in the hyperlinks folks. This is organized crime. How is it that the City of Greensboro is having such a hard time closing down untaxed businesses who are running gambling operations, selling drugs and selling beer and wine for food stamps in locations all over Greensboro? Are our politicians, city officials and/or police on the take?

His full name is actually JAYSHREE KIRAN SHAH and while his 4 bedroom 2.5 bathroom Sedgefield home is valued at a modest $193,462, Kiran and his associates and partners the Kahns, Akbars, Quamars, Shuklas and  Buttars are the owners of Kahn Hospitality and owners of the Airport Clarion Hotel  on Swing Road for which they owe $50,613.22 in delinquent property taxes despite annual sales between  $1,000,000 to $4,999,999. 

They previously owned the Greensboro Inn downtown and the Homestead Lodge, 115 E Carteret St.  Both properties were nuisance properties and were shut down as such.

These are the same people the Greensboro City Council attempted to give the Bessemer Shopping Center plus 2 million Dollars of your money to just last year. They are in the business of operating organized crime and unless the Greensboro City Council starts taking immediate action to rid our city of their presence immediately it will be assumed by myself and others that our City Council is in bed with these criminals.

I've been writing of them for almost 2 years as has Mr Holder and nothing has been done except to close 1 store when in-fact they operate all over Greensboro in dozens of properties they own and rent. It's time for a change.

And to add insult to injury, the owners of the story can choose to file an appeal to the City and remain open pending the appeal. My advice to the City should they appeal: schedule the hearing for the next morning...

Good, Better, Best For The Community, Best For Greensboro

Someone suggested to me yesterday that a monopoly owned grocery store (almost every store in northeast Greensboro is owned by the Kahn investment group) would be better for the Phillips Avenue community than no grocery store at all. Perhaps better but not best. And when did it become acceptable to set our sights as Americans to settle for less than the best?

And when did monopolizing entire communities and entire cities become an acceptable business practice in Greensboro or anywhere else in America? The News & Record reported that the Kahn group fronted by Shahzad Akbar, Shehzad Quamar, Dr. Manish Shukla, and  Choudry Buttar will now be given an entire shopping center where they have already announced plans to operate every store in the shopping center.

Perhaps you've wondered why Skip Alston, Shahzad Akbar and Shehzad Quamar balked when they first learned they might have to share the shopping center with the Renaissance Community Co-op? http://renaissancecoop.com/ They balked because they thought trading the Greensboro Inn for the Bessemer Shopping Center was a done deal.

Perhaps you wondered why Skip Alston, Shahzad Akbar and Shehzad Quamar balked when speakers from the floor and city council members questioned why they had not yet formed an LLC with the NC Secretary of State? And perhaps you wondered why Nancy Vaughan, Mayor Robbie Perkins and the rest of the Greensboro City Council allowed the process to continue without requiring Alston's group to disclose who all their investors are? The answer: If someone learned of Mr Kahn's involvement that someone might figure out the Greensboro City Council had not acted in the best interest of the citizens of Northeast Greensboro or the rest of Greensboro.

Two weeks ago the largest crowd in the history of Greensboro appeared before City Council in support of the Renaissance Community Co-op. Tomorrow night, the best thing that could ever happen to Greensboro would be 100 times that amount of people turning out to demand the resignations of the entire Greensboro City Council effective immediately.

Where Is The Performing Arts Center Money?

On numerous occasions myself and others have, over the course of the last several months, sent PIRTs (Public Information Requests) to the City Of Greensboro asking to see proof that the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro can actually produce the $35 Million in support that has been pledged to build the Greensboro Performing Arts Center. The following is an answer that came from the City today:

"Dear Mr. Jones:

 Thank you for your inquiry regarding the monetary pledges made on behalf of the Greensboro Performing Arts Center.

 Your request was reviewed by both the Legal Department as well as the Finance and Administrative Services Department.  Both departments responded that they do not have documents relating to your request.  The information you requested is maintained by the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro.

 
You may contact the Community Foundation at 336-379-9100 or info@cfgg.org


Please let me know if you have any additional questions.  Thanks again for your request.


Sincerely,

Sarah Healy
Sarah B. Healy, Public Records Administrator

Communications Division - 336-373-3282
City of Greensboro
PO Box 3136, Greensboro, NC 27402-3136

www.greensboro-nc.gov"

Perhaps you'd like to e-mail or call the Community Foundation and ask them yourself before the City of Greensboro gives them $58 Million Dollars. I noticed yesterday that DH Griffin has already started tearing down the Greensboro Inn to make way for the project-- perhaps you'd like to ask the CFGG who will be getting the bill for that while you've got their attention?

Illegal Gambling In Greensboro? With Updates.

Ever heard of Fish Tables? They're an arcade game designed primarily for gambling and no less than 3, perhaps more, have opened up right here in East Greensboro. Vice.com has a very detailed article on their history titled, Why Cops Are Raiding Arcades Over A Fishing Game.

One is located at a property I'm sure you'll remember. It's the same property on Martin Luther King Drive when employees working for Rocky Scarfone bleached the parking lot and altered video tape in an attempt cover up a shooting at Mr Scarfone's club there.

Another is located on East Bessemer Avenue.

And the third that I'm aware of is located in the so called, "grocery store" on Phillips Avenue at Lombardy Street. You know, the grocery store owned by those nice Pakistani merchants who own Kim's on Phillips Avenue and dozens of other convenience stores, hotels and motels throughout the Piedmont Triad.

Perhaps you remember when those same nice Pakistani merchants sold the Greensboro Inn to the City of Greensboro to make room for the performing arts center or when the Greensboro City Council voted to give them the shopping center on the corner of Phillips and Elwell, free of charge plus give them $2 Million Dollars to fix it up?

Could it be that fine upstanding Greensboro business people are opening up gambling operations in the poorest parts of our city?

And could it be that the Greensboro Police Department and Guilford County Sherriff's Department are turning a blind eye because the owners are prominent local citizens?

You tell me?


Update: Just learned of another on Summit Avenue where O Henry Barbecue used to be.


Update 2: A reader sends a photo of another in the Price Place Shopping Center on West Market. Arcades were never so popular in Greensboro. By the way, who owns Club Orion?

Update 3: Two more locations, Lawndale @ Cone and Cone Blvd near Walmart. These businesses are obviously targeting poor neighborhoods.


Update 4: Again Two more locations Battleground Plaza on Battleground Ave. and the curb market on Lawndale Drive across the street right before you get to the Target Shopping Center.


Update 5: June 12, 2017 Greensboro Police take action.

The Big Heritage House Cover-Up

We saw the same tactics some years back when the City of Greensboro decided to abandon War Memorial Stadium. First they promised to save the historic structure then they told us of structural problems that were said to be hopelessly beyond repair or simply too expensive. Over 10 years later the historic building where the movie the Durham Bulls was filmed remains empty.

In today's Planning Board meeting to determine the status of Heritage House, City Staff trotted out a visual inspection done by SKA Consulting Engineers Inc on July 10, 2014 that claim the building to have structural problems. Were Heritage House Property owners made aware that 3rd party inspectors were being allowed on their property by the City of Greensboro? The City of Greensboro Code Enforcement inspections took place in June. Heritage House Residents were forced to leave at the end of July. These engineers for SKA Consulting, if they did in-fact inspect Heritage House, were trespassing and the City of Greensboro was aiding and abetting.

So which is it, were they trespassing or is the SKA inspection a fraud? Remember: there was no mention of the cost of any engineering study when the City released the City's costs incurred due to Heritage House-- does SKA work for free?

But wait, it gets even better. We now have proof that Heritage House is in-fact a land grab years in the making.

From the City of Greensboro and Guilford County Consolidated Plan 2010-2014 For A More Resilient Community : Adopted August 2, 2010: Page 119, The City of Greensboro predicts the future:

"Need for more units available for those who have background issues. Heritage House Condos is an example of a private low cost facility. The Home Owners Association there may not be viable, and this model may not be replicable."

And from that very same page in a City that is literally flooded with available water:

"Over the past 3 years, water cutoffs have increased by 30%, according to Water Resources."

Make no doubt with a little bit of self-fulfilling prophecy added to a lack of law enforcement, no checks and balances, one of the 2 property management companies owned by a known crook, the other property management company owned in part by a former state senator who is married to our current mayor and the City helping to fabricate an inflated water bill it was no problem to make their dreams come true.

Now we're simply waiting for the City of Greensboro to exercise eminent domain so Skip Alston can broker the deal to  Shahzad Akba, Shehzad Quamar and their partner, Khan A Khan who formerly owned the Greensboro Inn downtown.

Am I getting warmer, Nancy? Of course you do realize if any of the theories I've pitched should come true it's handcuffs for you, Mike, Robbie, Skip, Zack, Yvonne and several more. Have you ever stood in front of a mirror and wondered what you might look like in a prison jump suit? Of course you have, that's why the Downtown Wyndham Hotel will never be built. It might be I can't send you to jail but I can damned sure get in the pockets of those who put you in office, isn't that right, Mayor Vaughan?

The planning board voted 8-0 to declare the property blighted-- not surprising being most have only heard one side of the story and the others are bought off. City Council will make the final decision... That is, if they dare to act after everything our team has made public and will continue to make public between now and then. Trust me, the conflicts of interest, of which we've yet to even make mention, are astounding.

And the phone calls, letters and e-mails just keep coming in.

What Really Happened To The Sale of The Bessemer Shopping Center?

For almost 15 years no one was interested in the abandoned Bessemer Shopping Center on the corner of Phillips and Elwell Avenues in my Northeast Greensboro neighborhood. Then, last year a community group called the Renaissance Community Co-op was founded to buy the shopping center and open a  community owned co-op grocery story there.

Support poured in from all over the city and excitement grew as the largest crowds ever assembled attended Greensboro City Council meetings in support of the co-op only to watch the Council give the shopping center and $2 Million Dollars of taxpayer dollars to a group of developers whose names were kept secret from the public even after speakers from the floor brought up the fact that city owned property was being sold to unknown parties.

WTF?

We now know the Renaissance Center of Greensboro, LLC  is made up not only of  Shahzad Akbar and Shehzad Quamar but also Dr. Manish Shukla, 317 Trinity Lane, Oak Brook, IL and Choudry Buttar, 840 Meadowlands Dr, Winston-Salem, NC and that by Shahzad Akbar's and Shehzad Quamar's own admission, Kahn A Kahn, the real owner of the Clarion Airport Hotel.

And you know what else Mr Kahn owns? The Greensboro Inn.

Beginning tomorrow morning I will tell you the real story of what really happened to the sale of the Bessemer Shopping Center and who knew. And the blogs (meaning multiple websites) are all set to autopost and the safeties are all off. A bullet to the back of my head can't save you now as you don't even know where the other blogs are or the computers I posted from. Greensboro's elites will jump from tall buildings and elected leaders will tender their resignations.

And any Greensboro City Council member who doesn't vote yes on Tuesday night to calling in State and/or Federal investigators (no private agencies) will be considered by all of Greensboro's voters to be guilty as sin. You cannot investigate yourself and as we saw in recent investigations where private investigators were brought in, private results tend to favor those signing their checks.

Update: I've invited Nancy to be the first to explain it publicly.

So We Punish Bad Behavior By Giving Them $2 Million Dollars

Let's say I was wrong about trading the Greensboro Inn for the Bessemer Shopping Center. Let's say it was just a coincidence that Mr Kahn happened to get his Hotel shut down by the City of Greensboro a few months ago due to the fact that the Greensboro Police Department and courts had established a history of excessive problems there. (Link to court documents)

Okay, so what if I was wrong? What if I was wrong and the Greensboro City Council lead by Mayor Robbie Perkins punished the Kahn investment group by giving them $2 Million Dollars?

"Alston’s clients, Shahzad Akbar and Shehzad Quamar, are part of an investment group that owns a Clarion Hotel on Swing Road and 25 local convenience stores. Mayor Robbie Perkins said the pair has extensive experience running businesses in east Greensboro.

“They know what they’re getting into,” he said. “That’s a business advantage we can’t discount.”

If that's punishment I'm taking up a life of crime.

And did I mention the near monopoly they already operate in Northeast Greensboro? These people are literally taking $Millions of dollars a year out of our community.

As an aside: These are the same clowns who tried to block the building of the new Dollar General Store on Phillips Avenue a few months back claiming it would bring more crime to the area when in-fact their store next door, Kim's, is considered the worst nuisance in the entire community for miles around. Yeah, they know how to do business in East Greensboro alright. It's called Monopoly and Robbie Perkins supports it.