Indeed the roughly $2 million figure floated by architect Peter Freeman is ‘suspiciously close’ to amount of money the City of High Point has available in two thirds bonds.

Right now city officials are saying no way, but evidently Freeman believes there’s some wiggle room when he says “we feel like there is some synergy there that would lend itself to a community space.”

Gov’t pulls this these sleights of hand all the time, and a cities just gotta have their amphitheaters. Stay tuned.