"It looks like we are back in the news. Dick Barron at the N&R called me this past Thursday and asked me if I would do an interview for him, for an update on the megasite story. I had a long discussion with him and answered many questions. During the interview, I told him about our meeting in which we invited Sam Simpson. Here is a link to the story in today's paper:
http://www.news-record.com/news/article_4d0ce04c-9770-11e3-8338-0017a43b2370.html
I recall from our meeting that Mr. Simpson said he hoped to have all of this wrapped up by March. His time-line is not clear from the article, but since he answered our questions, it looks like he may have pushed that back three months or so to June.
The other news in the story is that he told Dick Barron that he has "between 800 and 1,000 acres under contract or soon to be under contract". I do not know exactly what that means.
We already knew about the rumors of the approximate 800 acres, particularly since 637 are owned by one individual (who is not one of us) and another 98 are owned by another non-member, non-resident with whom Mr. Simpson has talked. So that's about 735 between just the two of them. We cannot confirm any of this, as nothing has been recorded in the office of the Randolph County
Register of Deeds.
Mr. Barron and I also discussed many per acre numbers, but the Walmart number the paper had already used ($23,000) is all that made it into the story.
More soon".
For readers living in Greensboro: the plan is to build a 2000 acre megasite in Randolph County 20 miles outside of Greensboro with Greensboro taxpayers footing the bill for over $20 Million Dollars to provide water and sewer in the hopes that like 180 empty megasites nationwide and 18 more in North Carolina (or 12, depending on who is counting) an auto manufacturer might locate there.
