"Because the private share is more than half, by this calculation, the project does not have to follow bidding requirements that would apply to a public facility."
And then there's the following all made possible by Councilwoman Nancy Baracat Vaughan, who as a City Council member, was assigned to the GPAC Task Force to act as the people's representative but instead chose to become the puppet of Mayor Robbie Perkins and Greensboro's elites:
"On September 17, 2013, the City Council of Greensboro authorized an additional $3.9 million in spending to acquire two final parcels of land necessary for the construction of a performing arts center that was first proposed 18 months earlier. This allocation was in addition to $7.6 million approved in August for seven parcels of land.
But they were not authorizing the purchase for use in the construction of the “Greensboro Performing Arts Center,” or “GPAC,” the unofficial but generally used name of a facility to host musical and theatrical events in the Gate City. Instead, they were buying the land for the construction of the “Steven Tanger Center of the Performing Arts.”
The “new” name was announced out of the blue when Steven Tanger, CEO of Tanger Factory Outlet, announced that he was donating $7.5 million not to the City of Greensboro, but to the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro (CFGG).
With this donation, CFGG pledged to ultimately donate $35 million in private contributions to the center ($28.7 million is said to have been raised so far).
In a way, it was only fitting that the center’s name was decided behind closed doors and then presented as a done deal with no input from a resident-visitor base that will eventually be contributing at least $51 million toward the construction of a performing arts center that has evinced no widespread public support or interest." Please continue reading...
