Moving from ‘us’ to ‘you,’ the N&R editorializes on the City of Greensboro’s planned purchase of the Canada Dry property and the Coliseum Motel:
Over the long run, the city’s decision to buy the old Canada Dry building (owned by News & Record Editor John Robinson’s wife, Susan, and her brothers) and the Coliseum Inn property for a combined $5.3 million is a good idea. High Point Road has fallen into disrepair and ill repute over the years and desperately needs help jump-starting redevelopment.
Yes, it would have been preferable to see this happen solely with private funds. But sometimes you do what you have to do.
I realize it’s a figure of speech, but I’ll still ask who the N&R is talking to when they say ‘you.’
Meanwhile —- gasp —- an outsider from a right-wing Raleigh think tank weighs in, speculating (correctly) that the land will somehow be tied into the Greensboro Coliseum, thus pouring more into that money pit.
