September 10, 2008
GREENSBORO - Officials at the Greensboro Children's Museum plan an overhaul of the downtown attraction that will result in major improvements inside and out. While no final price tag has been determined, museum officials estimate the enhancements - the mo...
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September 4, 2008
GREENSBORO — The calls began Monday. “Labor Day, ironically,” said Ellyn Steinhorn. One by one, former employees of Catering by Ellyn called Steinhorn to tell her that the business she and her husband, Jerry, started 22 years ago — and sold last y...
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September 3, 2008
GREENSBORO - As a city grows, new streets pop up everywhere. Just not downtown. "It is extremely unusual," Ed Wolverton, president and CEO of Downtown Greensboro Inc., said of street development in the center city, where transportation patterns have been...
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GREENSBORO - Catering by Ellyn, one of the city's oldest and largest caterers, has closed because of the economy, according to sources who have talked with the owner, Steve Paladino. The abrupt closing left numerous clients searching for someone to cater...
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September 2, 2008
GREENSBORO — Ed Wolverton admits to being “unabashedly positive” about downtown. He lives there, shops and dines there and as president and CEO of Downtown Greensboro Inc., he works there. “(But) imagine the surprise,” he says, to learn that mos...
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August 28, 2008
GREENSBORO - Gasoline prices in the Triad have dropped nearly 50 cents a gallon since mid-July, but what happens next could depend on Gustav.The tropical storm, which was temporarily downgraded from a hurricane Wednesday, could gain strength as it moves a...
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August 27, 2008
GREENSBORO — The City Council on Tuesday directed the city staff to study the feasibility of a new parking deck downtown. The center city already has four decks, but with more development on the horizon, more parking will be needed, council member Robbi...
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GREENSBORO — Skip Moore acknowledges that his plans for the Weaver Foundation property downtown represent nothing more than lines on paper. But that’s a start. If the city’s expanded cultural district takes off, consultants say, it likely will happe...
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August 26, 2008
GREENSBORO - The City Council on Tuesday directed the city staff to study the feasibility of building a new parking deck downtown.The center city already has four decks, but with more development on the horizon, more parking will be needed, said council...
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GREENSBORO - A consultant's report recommends that the city spend $14 million during the next decade to create an expanded cultural district downtown. The report, which will be unveiled at a City Council briefing today, calls the area east of Elm Street......
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August 25, 2008
GREENSBORO - A consultant hired to assess downtown's retail capacity calls the center city "the region's premier crossroads." He said downtown typically attracts more than 10 million people a year, a number that compares favorably with a regional mall. "D...
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GREENSBORO - A consultant's report recommends that the city spend $14 million over the next decade to create an expanded cultural district downtown. The report, which will be unveiled at a City Council briefing Tuesday, calls the area east of Elm Street......
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August 22, 2008
GREENSBORO - For all of downtown's progress over the past decade - revitalized nightlife, increased residential options, high office occupancy rates - the area has at least one glaring weakness: retail sales.A study to be released today says the center...
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August 18, 2008
GREENSBORO - New office buildings downtown are about as rare as platinum medals at the Olympics.But that will change next month when Carolina Bank opens its new corporate headquarters at 101 N. Spring St. between West Friendly Avenue and West Market Str...
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August 15, 2008
GREENSBORO — Community Theatre of Greensboro has been around for nearly 60 years but never had its own performing space. It presented its musicals, comedies and dramas in other venues in town: the Carolina Theatre, the Guilford County courthouse, the Br...
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August 14, 2008
GREENSBORO — The Community Theatre of Greensboro wants to buy the downtown Masonic Temple and turn it into a performing arts center.The non-profit theater company has an option to purchase the historic building at 426 W. Market St. from the Masons, Comm...
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GREENSBORO — The city's bicentennial celebration officially ended May 17 with a parade and party, but the light from 200 candles will linger for the rest of the year. That's because a series of affiliated events has been scheduled to run through Dec. 21...
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GREENSBORO - Round and round and round it goes, and where it stops the Greensboro Rotary Club knows. So does the Weaver Foundation. Thanks to officials at the foundation, the $2 million carousel the Rotary Club wants to give to the city will get a new hom...
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August 11, 2008
The N.C. Education Lottery has made a pitch to broaden its fan base, but a group opposed to the lottery says the effort is off base. Starting this season, lottery officials have been selling tickets at the state's minor league baseball stadiums, including...
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August 9, 2008
GREENSBORO - An attorney for Black's Furniture said Friday that the business has closed and approximately 400 orders will not be shipped to waiting customers.Those who will not receive furniture were notified by letters sent out Thursday, said Brooks Reit...
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August 8, 2008
GREENSBORO - An attorney for Black's Furniture said Friday that the business has closed and approximately 400 orders will not be shipped.Customers who will not receive furniture were notified by letters sent out Thursday, said Brooks Reitzel, an attorney...
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August 2, 2008
GREENSBORO — Luke Kaiser’s red T-shirt, the one he got last year when he worked at the UNCG bookstore, fit the moment perfectly. In big white letters, it said, “Yes, I Can Help You.” That’s just the message Jakob Holy needed. “He was pretty am...
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July 29, 2008
GREENSBORO - A local furniture retailer which used to concentrate on special orders has adopted a new business model as it struggles with a dramatic loss of vendors and a declining economy.Black's Furniture, at 300 N.C. 68 South, now only sells furniture...
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GREENSBORO - TradeWinds Airlines announced Monday that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, citing "a perfect storm" of adverse market conditions and what it called failed financial commitments. Based on events leading up to filing Friday in...
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July 25, 2008
GREENSBORO -- Center Pointe, downtown’s ongoing high-rise renovation project, has fallen behind schedule, developer Roy Carroll said this week. Last April, Carroll said he hoped to unveil his $40 million-plus rehab of the old Wachovia tower downtown thi...
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