YWCA merits city's help before Lee Street projects
Financial distress at the YWCA suggests that our City Council could do Greensboro a far greater service by helping that institution than by spending $5.6 million on the old Canada Dry plant on Lee Street. It seems to me that a purchase and lease-back of the Y’s property would do a lot more for our community than to fritter away scarce dollars in our present economy to subsidize War Memorial Auditorium pipe dreams.
The hall is misplaced on Lee Street, for openers. It is an acoustical disaster, handicap-inaccessible upstairs, and has abysmal parking. Any money spent on it is a Band-Aid on a gash. Better to plan a new building for future construction in our cultural district downtown. Davie Street next to the Children’s Museum comes to mind.
Our City Council would do well to look beyond the end of its nose. Institutions like the YWCA are part of our community’s fabric and should take priority over ethereal wish lists.
<em>Peter Guthmann
Greensboro
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Hey, here's a thought.
Why not stop all the unnecessary spending, including the YMCA.
I guess that is too much to ask of a democRAT controlled tax and spend council.
Posted on December 1, 2008 4:27 PM