Greensboro Politics reports Coliseum director Matt Brown’s comments on the $50 million War Memorial Auditorium bond. Brown “simply ripped the current auditorium apart” and “offered no sense of hope for the facility should the bond not pass.”
And who’s responsible for such lack of hope? Not taxpayers, who still turn out despite the fact that Brown and the City of Greensboro have done who-knows-what with money that should have gone toward a new sound system.
It will be interesting to see what will happen if the bond doesn’t pass. Personally, I’m willing to take that chance. Somehow I think the auditorium will survive. Maybe, as John Hammer speculates, the ‘city will regain its sense of reason and start fixing up the building as it has done with other buildings….the offices of the city staff wouldn’t be quite as plush as they are now, but the auditorium would have a new sound system.”
By the same token, the city sure likes to tear buildings down when it doesn’t fit their plans. They’ve got a big plan for Lee Street, and the N&R likes it, concluding thar’s gold under that thar street.
