According to the NC Secretary of State, http://www.secretary.state.nc.us/corporations/agent.aspx?AgentId=6355116 James Warren Kee Jr aka Councilman Jim Kee and his wife Talma Troxler Kee are owners of LIVING STONE INVESTMENTS, LLC and H AND K PROPERTIES, LLC.
Councilman Kee and his wife, Talma are also listed as principals in the "non profit" Concept Innovators Incorporated. http://www.secretary.state.nc.us/corporations/Filings.aspx?PItemId=6167298 at that same 4411 Belfield Drive address where he and Gayland Oliver are listed as being business partners. And folks, clicking on Gayland Oilver will no doubt give you pause as to what kind of company the councilman keeps.
It's interesting that Gayland Oilver's name comes up in this October 2011 WFMY report about the Save-A-Lot grocery store that never came to East Greensboro. http://www.digtriad.com/news/local/article/194021/57/UPDATE-Save-A-Lot-May-Open-In-East-Greensboro- The timing was perfect to help reelect Jim Kee and Mayor Pro Tem Yvonne Johnson. I bet if you ask Yvonne point blank she will tell you it was Jim Kee who leaked the story which angered the Save-A-Lot franchise owner on East Cone Blvd and caused Save-A-Lot corporate to get cold feet and back out of the deal. See Jim Key: Anything To Score Political Points Even If it Means Getting The City Sued.
Did I mention that none of Councilman Kee's businesses currently holds a City of Greensboro business privilege license. Here, look them up for yourself: http://www.greensboro-nc.gov/index.aspx?page=2402
It was during a Google search for "LIVING STONE INVESTMENTS, LLC greensboro" that I came upon this page of search results from the Guilford County Tax Department. http://taxweb.co.guilford.nc.us/PublicWebAccess/BillSearchResults.aspx?ParcelNum=0079282 Search results be they Google or pages at the Guilford County Tax Department or even search results found using the search bar to the left of the page you're reading right now are different from regular web pages in that they do not exist until someone does an actual search and usually pages of search results disappear from the web when you're finished using them. The exception is when someone links to a page of search results from a website, blog or list server somewhere long enough for the page to be indexed by search engine robots. This indicated to me that someone else is looking into Jim Kee's business affairs.
Being that I have never before seen that page of search results the question becomes: who is investigating Jim Kee and why?
So where will this lead us? The autopost knows. But in the meantime I thought I'd take the time to look into that google search that turned up a result for the Guilford County Tax Department.
Turns out that was for an unrecorded plat belonging to RUFUS CHAVIS at 1419 R1 HUFFINE MILL RD http://taxweb.co.guilford.nc.us/PublicWebAccess/BillDetails.aspx?BillPk=7655236 Well actually it appears to have belonged to RUFUS CHAVIS, William H Chavis, Dora S Chavis, LIVING STONE INVESTMENTS LLC, KEE DEVELOPMENT CORP. KEE, JAMES W JR and KEE, TALMA T. It now belongs to Jim, Talma and Livingstone Investments Llc today.
But why the MIGRATED PAYMENT for the property taxes ? Could the Chavis family not afford to pay the taxes? Did they not know the property was still in the family until after Jim Kee swooped in to pay the back taxes and take the property as developers so commonly do here in East Greensboro. I decided to do a search for parcel # 0079282 and low and behold what did I come up with? Jim Kee's next planned Northeast Greensboro subdivision:
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According to Guilford County, this property is currently valued at $18,900 and yet there is no recorded sale price for the property. Only a deed in the name of Jim Kee's company, LIVING STONE INVESTMENTS LLC.
I went to Jr High and High School with several kids from the Chavis families over there on Huffine Mill Road. They were good Black folks who like the rest of us White and Black folks here just off of Phillips Avenue struggled to live from day to day at a time when this country was very divided along racial lines and did the best we had with what little we had. Odds are good the Chavis farm dated back to just after the Civil War just as did most of the few black owned farms in this area. And along comes men like Jim Kee to do exactly what the rich white man did before.
Was it legal? Yes, but then before 1861 so was slavery. To my African-American neighbors here in East Greensboro: I don't care if the people you vote for are Black, White, Hispanic or from Mars, are green and have antenna coming from their heads, just understand that every time they screw you they're screwing me too. And personally, I'm over it. If real economic development existed in East Greensboro, developers like Jim Kee wouldn't be able to swoop in like vultures and take a family's ancestral home away from them.
Why another "non profit?" What do Concept Innovators do? And why are Kee Development Corp and LIVING STONE INVESTMENTS not paying Greensboro business taxes?
You know, Maybe Zack Matheny was on to something when he said Greensboro never lost a business due to high taxes... Only, he stopped short of telling us exactly why.
