Perhaps you heard of the Mayor's Downtown plan to spruce up what is already one of Greensboro's most well-to-do neighborhoods with the fancy high rise condos and the privately owned parks funded with city tax dollars, fancy greenways that lead nowhere and plans for a new performing arts center where the only the elite can afford to gather?
So at what point do the grants take effect throughout the rest of the City of Greensboro? High Point Road businesses need a facelift as does Lee Street. The Glenwood businesses could use some help too. What about ORD, Bessemer, East Market Street, Randalman Road, are they not just as deserving of government bailouts or is this entitlement reserved only for Greensboro's most well-to-do neighborhoods? Will Irving Park be next? State Street Shops? Friendly Shopping Center?
How can the City of Greensboro justify using taxpayer monies to fund grants to private property owners in only one neighborhood when every neighborhood in Greensboro is forced to foot the bill? And how can the City of Greensboro justify favoring one commercial district over all the other commercial districts in Greensboro?
And who among the many Downtown Greensboro property owners will receive grants and who will be forced to take out loans they might otherwise not wish to borrow?
So at what point do the grants take effect throughout the rest of the City of Greensboro? High Point Road businesses need a facelift as does Lee Street. The Glenwood businesses could use some help too. What about ORD, Bessemer, East Market Street, Randalman Road, are they not just as deserving of government bailouts or is this entitlement reserved only for Greensboro's most well-to-do neighborhoods? Will Irving Park be next? State Street Shops? Friendly Shopping Center?
How can the City of Greensboro justify using taxpayer monies to fund grants to private property owners in only one neighborhood when every neighborhood in Greensboro is forced to foot the bill? And how can the City of Greensboro justify favoring one commercial district over all the other commercial districts in Greensboro?
And who among the many Downtown Greensboro property owners will receive grants and who will be forced to take out loans they might otherwise not wish to borrow?
