Front-page news in this morning’s N&R print edition:
‘Round and ’round it goes, and where it stops, nobody knows. At least not yet.
That’s one of the issues involved in locating a massive, Greensboro-specific carousel downtown: where to put it. Another is how to pay for it.
The Rotary Club of Greensboro has begun an effort to raise as much as $2 million for the carousel, a 10,000-square-foot building to house it and an endowment fund to operate it.
“We want to create it, build it and then give it to the city,” said Bernie Mann, president of the club and the head of Mann Media . “What a nice fit for a Rotary club.”
Yeah, I realize the emphasis of the article was on the Rotary Cub’s provate fundraising efforts. But I’m sure the city will have the opportunity to chip in on the front end, too:
Members of the club have already talked to two carousel makers. They’ve traveled to Burlington to see the historic carousel in one of the parks there. And they’ve pitched the idea to city officials.
“Our next effort is to say where are we going to get the bucks,” Mann said. “I don’t think there is any question of ‘Can we?’ It is, ‘How do we organize ourselves to do that?'”
Great ideas to spend city money. Where they stop, nobody knows.
