WMA upgrade should be part of city's renaissance
Greensboro is undergoing a renaissance -- new businesses recruited, old neighborhoods restored, new parks, playgrounds and athletic facilities added. A center for culture and learning, a beautiful city, Greensboro is a highly desirable place to live.
Greensboro is a place for wonderful music and dance, great theater, inspirational speakers. These stimulate great ideas that challenge our minds, lift our spirits and broaden and enrich our lives, appealing to that which is human in our beings. Ultimately, these factors have the greatest bearing on Greensboro's quality of life.
The War Memorial Auditorium is the primary center for symphony concerts, theatrical productions and speakers -- world-class events that deserve a world-class setting. And, Greensboro deserves a world- class auditorium.
Not having been updated but twice in 50 years, the War Memorial's lighting, acoustics and seating are sadly inadequate, and the lack of handicapped access to second- floor restrooms is illegal. Seating should be increased, lobby space expanded and parking made accessible.
But, however dysfunctional it has become, probably the most damning adjective for the War Memorial Auditorium is ordinary. The music, the speakers, the theater, the ballet housed in this facility are far from ordinary and deserve a setting that is inspirational as well as functional.
Mary C. Miller
Greensboro
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Mary,
I got no problem with that. I just don't want to pay for it with higher property taxes.
I do question what you mean by accessible parking, however. Also, like it or not, the lack of restrooms on the second floor is NOT illegal. It's a grandfather clause that allows it.
Posted on October 5, 2006 8:23 AM