We believe the Bellemeade District is most effectively used for taxable mixed-use housing and business, that Greensboro receives greatest value by using War Memorial Stadium for minor league baseball and adaptive reuse of the historic Burlington Mills building, and that Social Services should remain in the Central Business District..
We do not feel a new minor league baseball stadium
is appropriate nor the best path toward stable, long-term rejuvenation of Greensboro's Central Business District, a shared goal.
We appreciate the opportunity to petition fellow citizens and
recognize the outcome of our October 7th 2003 Stadium Referendum.
Click on topics below if you wish to better understand our positions.
For the inquisitive, this site is privately created and maintained,
not governed by any group.
This effort is documented at the Guilford County Board of Elections as a Referendum Committee so that would not be an issue of concern.
This web-based information effort requires no funding. This simply represents an a sincere attempt to document information gathered, and views formed, since a new downtown minor league baseball stadium proposal was announced August 2002. If you're looking for fancy, fluffy, graphic presentations, you've come to the wrong place!
An overriding concern arising in this city-wide issue is consistent discounting of citizen concerns and attempts to thwart legal public processes by some elected and unelected "leaders".
If those trends continued, the results of the McKinsey Report
would become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Broad citizen engagement, stifled, engenders resignation and increasingly
narrow circles of community participation.
Instead ...
Celebrate Greensboro's Stadium Referendum!
