The site is no surprise to most as the city bought the YWCA property just months ago and forced the closing of a downtown motel even though downtown boosters have long promoted the building of more downtown motels. If crime had been the real concern of the now closed motel an easier solution would have been to partner with its owners and turn the motel into luxury suites unaffordable to addicts and homeless people. Believe me, I saw through that one all along.
Another one I saw through is the private donation scam being pitched by Walker Sanders recently made infamous for the Sanders-Lomax Scandal.
Seems there's supposedly $20 Million Dollars in anonymous private funding going into the building of GPAC. Well in case Walker Sanders has forgotten, we-the-taxpayers were promised an open and honest process. From day one we shouted, "Show us the money!" and almost a year later we are told,
"Although the committee members have said they will raise the $20 million needed, they have not revealed who has committed to give — or how much.
Task force member Kathy Manning said donors were not told that their information would be made public.
“It would be grossly unfair to take all the names of all the people and share it publicly,” she said. “It would probably destroy the project.”
Committee members discussed whether a financial guarantee from Community Foundation would suffice. "
Why? Why, I ask, is a 3rd party conducting business on behalf of the City of Greensboro? Is this not the most reckless form of city management any of you have ever seen? And why are taxpayers now being asked to foot a $20 Million Dollar bill when we've already expressed that Greensboro does not want GPAC. Finally, how can a playground for, a monument to Greensboro's rich be considered economic development for Greensboro's poor?
Photo from Jim of Real Progress For Greensboro.
The Greensboro City Council will meet next Tuesday night to vote on the issue. Their decision has already been made in favor of building GPAC. I recommend angry mobs arrive there hours before the meeting begins.
