Rob Bencini On Downtown Greensboro Development

“What you’ve seen happen is a migration from pretty reasonable economic development practices to one that is led by sheer desperation. Every time someone suggests they want to do something, especially downtown, the check book opens up because they want to see something happen. This wasn’t the case seven, eight years ago.” --Rob Bencini, consultant and former economic development director for Guilford County


So Greensboro is following a "migration from pretty reasonable economic development practices to one that is led by sheer desperation."


From Wikipedia:

" Desperation is the emotional state of despair in which a person feels a situation to be hopeless and without satisfactory options. Decisions made in desperation may be more rash, impulsive, and inappropriate than those made in a rational frame of mind.
Desperation may also refer to:

• Panic"

Real leaders never panic. But as Mr Bencini makes quite clear, Greensboro has no real leaders. Panic is their normal state of affairs be it tree ordinances, economic development, parking garages or teenage boys fighting in City Center Park.