Greensboro city council member Sandy Carmany on HOT:
“It’s going to develop with or without this plan. The question is, ‘Do we control it and make some sense out of it or just let it happen?’”
What bothered me about yesterday’s N&R article is it rested on the assumption that area would develop, “seemingly at the speed of traffic on the two interstates that already meet here and the other two (Interstates 73 and 74) that someday will course nearby.” But the evidence put forth in the article didn’t exactly support that claim. Sandy Crump said she “heard” that a Sheetz gas station “might” be built on the land where her grandparents’ house once stood.
Then there was the cover shot of R.J. Welborn with the Skeen Group sign posted on his farmland. Having a high-powered broker like Dwain Skeen Group working your land certainly says something about its development potential. But there are a lot big-time brokers’ signs sitting on vacant property around the Triad. And while the offers for Mike Winfrey’s land have indeed increased, the article also notes that the potential projects ended up falling through.
Don’t get me wrong, I hope the area does develop. What bothers me is the fact a quasi-governmental entity like PART, with the support of our elected officials, is rushing in to assert control over a situation that, at the present moment, appears to be somewhat exaggerated.
