There appears to be a fast-food restaurant being built next to Hardee's in front of Lowes Hardware. I drove by the construction site (currently just grading and a construction trailer) but couldn't make anything out. Could this be the Chick-fil-a?

The scoreboard is next.

Also, other founding sponsors were announced...Lowes, Lowes Foods, WFUBMC, Flow and Natty Greene's. Womble Carlyle bought naming rights to a club suite. Blue Rhino Backyard is the picnic terrace along right field. The Childress Institute has the KidZone and Nature's Select has the grassy knoll.

beyonce maybe the reason you saw the same thing that was posted elsewhere was because I was the person who posted it Clearly people should be concerned if this project were being funded by tax dollars, but this in not the case. Give the project a chance. The recent feasibility report is flawed because of several reasons so I wouldnt base the potential success of this hotel on that report if I were you. Also Chrisholm and Kaplan are fine tuning thier hotel project trying to find the right mix of hotel rooms, retail, restaurants and office. 200 rooms is not set in stone. This is just ONE of the reasons the feasibilty report is flawed because it did not include the mixed-use component. I will continue to support this project for our downtown because I think it can be a success and help attract other development. I do agree the developers and the city should have made this a smoother process and there were mistakes made, people involved in the hotel project should have kept quiet. I still think the sticking point is the parking deck. If city council doesnt approve a deck for this hotel it kills the whole project.

The situation is not what it may seem according to what's been written on this thread. Hell, Cityboi's previous post (11 February 2010 - 09:48 PM) isn't even his own opinion. He copied and pasted it without attribution to the original author or source. In fact, I have a sneaking suspicion that Cityboi has actually been exacerbating the problem by engaging in petty name-calling and posting poorly written comments in support of the hotel in the local blogosphere (under the name Tim), hence my previous post. People think "Tim" is being paid to cheerlead by the developers.

I think both sides of the hotel debate, the developers and Quaintance-Weaver, could have acted in a more professional manner. I will say that the hotel proposal has been most hurt, not by the proposed developers themselves, but by their broker who doubles as chairman of the county commissioners. He may not have acted inappropriately in brokering this deal and having the county commissioners vote on it without disclosing why he was recusing himself from the vote. But nevertheless, seeing is believing when it comes to politics. And if people see you as dishonest and untruthful, they're going to believe that regardless of if you were or not.

I appreciate Cityboi's enthusiasm for Greensboro and downtown. I wish more people would display the same. However, he appears to have unwavering support for this hotel no matter the facts. And while I don't agree with the tactics employed by the hoteliers filing suit, I think they are right to question whether or not the hotel is viable. With the same token, I think the developers should be given some breathing room to produce a feasibility study based on the final proposal, since the facts and circumstances of the hotel have changed so much since its inception.

I'll get right behind cityboi and everyone else and cheer this hotel on as soon as they can demonstrate to me that it at least has the potential for success. But I'm not going to support a project that can't be proven. It's not good business.