In January 2022, business owners on North Greene Street complained about the street being closed without notice and got the City Council to reopen the street.
Eleven months later, in December 2022, business owners on North Greene Street complained about the street being closed for what was an estimated three months for utility work and got nothing.
On Feb. 29, 2024, The Carroll Companies, which owns and manages the Hyatt Place Hotel on the corner of North Eugene Street and Bellemeade Street, decided to make its frustration with the endless street work known and placed a digital sign on the sidewalk along North Eugene Street that flashed two messages. “2 YEARS 2 LONG” and “GSO PLS END RD WORK.”
Reportedly, when a city inspector saw the message on the sign, it was deemed a “safety hazard” and the city had Yates Construction, which is doing the work on Eugene Street, remove the sign.
Later in the day, the sign was returned. Even the City of Greensboro is not allowed to steal other people’s signs because the city doesn’t like what they say.
The Carroll Companies also owns the lot catty-corner to the Hyatt Place on North Eugene and Bellemeade Streets. The sign is now there safely on private property out of the reach of city inspectors, and the message hasn’t changed.
The city has had two projects on North Eugene Street between Bellemeade Street and Smith Street. One was to redo utility work that was done several years ago. When the street was closed for that earlier utility work, the City Council promised the business owners on Eugene Street that the city wouldn’t close the street again and then the city did.
The other project is streetscaping, which involves widening the sidewalks and putting in planters and other amenities.
As part of that streetscape project, Bellemeade Street was paved on Thursday, Feb. 29, so that portion of the project is nearly finished.
Madison Carroll Snyder, the chief of staff and director of Carroll Hospitality for The Carroll Companies, said that the current schedule calls for Yates Construction to take next week off and then finish up the following week.
Snyder said that when the street is closed the hotel can’t access its parking deck, which has been a huge inconvenience for guests.
The Carroll Companies also owns this publication.
Why am I not surprised. City inspectors obviously are a reflection of their bosses. As with past actions by city officials, this inspector thinks he can arbitrarily squash free speech even of some of the largest contributors to downtown revitalization. This rogue mentality is going to cost Greensboro taxpayers one day, when the right lawsuit is filled against their dictatorial edicts
Name something our govt does well.
They go on “trips” to press the flesh with other elected leaders across the state, all expenses paid, and nothing is accomplishes. They also home after 5 pm
Talk… no action… street-scaping… greenway… yeah, really good at talking
Gett’em Roy, there’s way too much stupidity on the current council. 300 k and 3 years later how many homeless are housed. Roy honest question. How many small ( 1000–1200) feet houses could be built for the 300k that was spent to buy the motel on highway 29
To me this is just another example of the mind frame of the city. Carroll Companies, the owners of the Rino is the only source of the truth coming out of the city, and is not afraid to let the citizens know what is actually happening and how the city council i s sticking it to the taxpayers. If you do not play along with the city council they will come out for you and make your life, business, and family suffer.
Sounds like the Carrol co. Is just useing their right to FREE SPEECH, & the slooooow moving city of Greensboro doesn’t like the TRUTH
Don’t go downtown, not even to show up for jury duty, too dangerous. Greensboro sucks
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Don’t you love it when these Parasitic Sector assh*les endow themselves with the term “Public Servant” when they want to enlarge their retirement bonanza, or get a bridge named after themselves?
In truth, these people are Little Hitlers who are spiteful petty nobodies who couldn’t cut it in the Productive Sector.
They just collect their money at the end of the month, every month, regardless of their productivity, and cash out after 30 years with a Golden Parachute retirement plan (index linked of course!).
I see a lot of perfectly fit, relatively young 50 year olds who invariably bleat “I put in my 30 years”, as if that justifies them living like Kings on the taxpayers’ dime – at 50 or so.
They disgust me.
The “communists”, aka democrats, ruling poor Greensboro have an amazing, but unsurprising, contempt for the man that has added untold value to the “downtown” area, being Mr. Carroll. His only “crime” is a relationship to the best President of our history, Donald J. Trump. Reply to the communists, FU.
Carroll has more lawyers than Greensboro
Didn’t Carroll Industries close down Eugene Street for an extended period of time?