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.