It's Greensboro's motto, a flip of our state motto: To seem, rather than to be.
99 Blocks Magazine reports that the Performing Arts Center Task Force isn't waiting for the findings of its Feasibility Committee—the hired consultant for which has already concluded that it is his job to "plan a new arts facility in Greensboro in 80 days"—no, the "feasibility" was decided in advance and the task force is proceeding with putting the cart before the horse:
Someday, maybe, we'll think enough or ourselves—of each other—to undertake deliberations of public projects like this without the pretense. Someday. Maybe."With city leaders hastily planning a performing arts center for downtown, one of their challenges is to convince the community that it’s worth spending $30 million of the public’s money to build it."One way they’ll be doing that in the coming months is to form a speakers bureau that will fan out with power point presentations to civic groups around Greensboro."
You missed the best part in story where Wolff said that we are going to Plan a new arts facility in Greensboro in 80 days , looks like the feasibility study has been thrown out the window
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ReplyDelete•Ticket prices at War Memorial Auditorium today range from $5.00 to $125.00
ReplyDelete•Tickets at DPAC range from $40.00 to $200.00
This part of the study sez that many folks won't able to afford the "new show" and, if the old venue is closed, they won't be able to a "show." Were is the original Dylan?
Estimated spending at time of event (pre and post show) is projected to increase from $19.45 to as much as $63.04 per capita
ReplyDelete–Food/drink, parking, retail, child care, items at theater
–Excludes ticket price
This part of the study sez that folks need more $$$ when attending the "new show." Why is public government acting the role of the private capitalist?