I give you a partial listing of crimes responded to at the Homestead Lodge, 115 E Carteret St since Jan 1 2007. That's no less thay 117 instances as I'm still waiting on records from the Giulford County Sheriff's Department and North Carolina Highway Patrol. For reference, this is the motel located at the northeast corner of I40 and South Elm-Eugene St. Link to Google map: http://goo.gl/maps/kTu2x
Don't you find it strange that the City of Greensboro didn't take the Homestead Lodge from its owners as being a public nuisance when just a few months ago the City declared the Greensboro Inn (located downtown) a public nuisance for only 102 crimes committed at the Greensboro Inn?
And let's not forget, the Greensboro Inn was the subject of a deliberate police investigation. Had GPD also been investigating the Homestead Lodge surely they would have uncovered more.
So what do these 2 motels have in common? Besides being very seedy places? According to the Guilford County Registar of Deeds, both properties are owned by the same owners. That's right, the Kahn family, the same people who own seedy convienience stores all over Greensboro and cheap hotels all across the nation. The same people who take their profits out of our communities, out of the United States leaving our communities poor. The same people who were given $2 Million Dollars and a shopping center by the Greensboro City Council just weeks ago.
Now why would the Greensboro City Council move forward on excercising its right to take one property when another property owned by the same ownership group is a bigger offender? The answer: I was right when I wrote the Greensboro Inn was swapped for the Bessemer Shopping Center.
There's been a lot of police investigations going on in Greensboro in recent years, too bad none of it is being directed at City Council, city staff and the "non profit" elites and their developer cronies.
