So says Greensboro native and Charlotte Hornets president and chief operating officer Fred Whitfield, who grew up on the old Carolina Courgars model: “As a kid in Greensboro,” Whitfield said,…
Big news yesterday that Wake Forest University has signed a five-year deal with the Greensboro Coliseum Complex to manage and book non-university events Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum, which WFU…
Nice long Memorial Day weekend, so here’s catching up: *Is N.C.’s unemployment rate more like 16 percent? *The City of Greensboro will repair the historic downtown Cascade Saloon building, at…
Winston-Salem City Manager Lee Garrity tells the Journal that Wake Forest University has agreed to keep Joel Coliseum open to the public past 2034 should the sale go through. Only…
The Winston-Salem Foundation’s Board of Directors has expressed concern about the city’s proposed sale of Lawrence Joel Memorial Coliseum to Wake Forest University, in effect sending the parties back to…
The Winston-Salem Journal editorializes: The public legacy of Winston-Salem’s only Medal of Honor winner will now be preserved if the city sells the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum to Wake…
…The Winston-Salem Foundation: On Monday, the foundation will meet to review whether the city’s proposed sale agreement aligns with the terms under which the foundation gave the property to the…
A Winston-Salem City Council committee has passed a resolution supporting the sale of Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum and Bowman Gray Stadium to Wake Forest University and Winston-Salem State University,…
The City of Winston-Salem wants to unload Lawrence Joel Memorial Coliseum and Bowman Gray Stadium before the next fiscal year, unburdening taxpayers of $30 million over the next 20 years.…
Winston-Salem State University Chancellor Donald Reaves and Wake Forest University athletics director Ron Wellman made their respective pitches to the City Council’s finance committee to purchase Bowman Gray Stadium and…
What do the two have in common, you might ask? They were brought up during a meeting at Joel Coliseum between local elected officials and local members of the General…
I’m a critic of the Winston-Salem Journal, but I give them credit for treating City Council member Dan Besse’s comment that all the ‘low hanging fruit’ from the city budget…