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.