I find it rather interesting now that the City of Greensboro has finally sold the South Elm redevelopment area off Lee Street, that we hear talk of a proposed university campus finally being built there when the Greensboro City Council knew all along of plans to build a downtown Greensboro campus. Some of us have known about such plans for years.
Could it be the City owned property was sold to developers solely for the purpose of providing the developers with profits at taxpayers' expense? Why didn't the City sell the property directly to the universities and cut out the middle men saving taxpayers what could be $Millions of Dollars? Did developers conspire with Greensboro leaders to cheat the UNC system out of state tax dollars? It just so happens the developers who bought the property are from Durham and Raleigh-- the state capitol. Coincidence perhaps? Or did they already know state funds were on the way to Greensboro?
Remember: when the property was sold even the Greensboro City Council claimed not to know what the developers planned to do with it. Since when do city councils sell the most valuable real estate in the city with no idea what will be done with the land?
This entire project has corruption written all over it.
