Greensboro Mayor Robbie Perkins says War Memorial Auditorium will be paid off this year. Now the question is whether or renovate the 52-year-old building at a cost of $60 million.

Two bond referendums to to renovate or rebuild the auditorium have failed, and City Council member Zack Matheny told the Rhino he’d “be cautious about using certificates of participation, and that $60 million seems like an aggressive number.”