Wachovia Tower project deserves incentives deal
I'm a taxpayer and I approve of Roy Carroll asking the city and Guilford County for tax money to help him redevelop the old Wachovia Tower. When we moved to Greensboro, I loved it right away; it had the feel of one big, beautiful residential area. However, when I went downtown, especially at night, it gave me an eerie feeling. Where were the people?
People living downtown are what make any city alive and well.
The Wachovia Tower with condominiums, offices and shops will make the city of Greensboro more truly our "hometown."
DeWitt Barnett
Greensboro
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TOTALLY OFF TOPIC .. but this:
" ... when I went downtown, especially at night, it gave me an eerie feeling. Where were the people?""
... gave me a flashback I'll share.
In 1980 (?), I visited Berlin. The wall was still up and I went through Checkpoint Charlie. It was an absolutely beautiful Sunday afternoon, one of the museum's (ruins from Egypt) was incredible .. but there were no people. and I mean no people.
Sitting outside on a park bench, looking over the expanse of a town center ... void of all but a very few tourists like me.
There was a trolley that would ride the rails a few blocks, stop to drop-off / pick-up passengers, ride the rails a few more blocks .. except it was empty.
It was very twilight-zoney.
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Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Posted on May 2, 2006 5:16 AM
$2 million here, $2 million there, pretty soon you're talking real money.
I say let Jim Melvin's posse pay for it. Isn't that why Joe Bryan established the Bryan Foundation, to help fund projects that benefit Greensboro? Or was it to fund Melvin only projects?
Posted on May 2, 2006 8:03 AM
JDR,
I completely identify. I used to live near downtown and would walk down there on Sundays. It was like being in Chernobyl or something.
Posted on May 2, 2006 1:08 PM