Late Tuesday night Early Wednesday morning the Greensboro City Council voted 7-2 to authorize City Attorney Mujeeb Shah-Khan to begin eminent domain proceedings on the downtown Cascade Saloon building. Council members Dianne Bellamy-Small and Tony Wilkins were the ‘no’ votes.
Remember council member Zack Matheny’s comment about the city being “terrible landlords.” So what does the council do? Vote to become landlords again. Before the vote Wilkins sarcastically said how he “couldn’t wait to get out of the shopping center business and into the saloon business.” And believe you me this has the potential to turn into another Bessemer Shopping Center fiasco, as any developer(s) insane enough willing to take on this project would no doubt run a forgivable loan up the flagpole, with the council only too happy to oblige.
