The Winston-Salem Journal’s Scott Sexton pretty much drives that point home:
If you work in downtown Winston-Salem — or drive through it with any regularity — it’s impossible not to peer into the huge mud pit just off Business 40 near Peters Creek Parkway and wonder what’s going on with the $38 million downtown ballpark.
Day after day, week after week, month after month, the 17-acre construction site that is supposed to be another cornerstone in the revitalization of downtown sits idle as work crews stay away in droves.
Occasionally, a handful of workers shows up for a day or two. But for the most part, the large construction equipment — earth movers, cranes and the like — haven’t started up, concrete mixers haven’t turned, and pallets of materials lying where the outfield bleachers should be sit untouched by anything but rain.
Even after Dash owner Billy Prim finally buys out partner and brother-in-law Flip Filipowski, he still has to find another partner, and that’s going to be a tough bid in this economy. Perhaps Prim should suck it up —- he’s worth hundred of million —- and get it done himself.
