If Greensboro News & Record Publisher and Editorial Contributor Robin Saul was on the Greensboro Downtown Economic Development Strategy Advisory Group, author of the PAC plan...?

"Could a downtown GPAC -- Greensboro Performing Arts Center -- match that success?

It's a tall order.

Where's the money?

The City Council agreed Tuesday to pursue putting a bond referendum for a GPAC on the November ballot.

So everyone is going to pay?

Why should everyone have to pay?

Mayor Robbie Perkins says trying isn't enough.

Really?

So cheating is OK?

"This community is going to get this done," he said Wednesday.

"It's not an option.

This community has got to get things like this done."

Really?

What happened to voting?

But there are options, and the council has to make the right decisions before going to voters.

Isn't an option not going to voters?

Council members prefer the downtown option, but that would cost more, primarily because of the need to purchase land.

If Greensboro News & Record Publisher and Editorial Contributor

Robin Saul, was on the Greensboro Downtown

Economic Development Strategy Advisory Group,

author of the PAC plan,

that showed the News and Record's property as a possible location

should the Editorial Board disclose said conflict of interest

or should they lie by omission?

If need is sustanance and a temperate climate,
does this qualify as a need?

We need more manufacturing jobs.

You Want a PAC.

You do not need a PAC.

The plan would work only with enough private funding to make up the difference.

Unless they use already owned land

instead of the undisclosed News and Record property

under consideration, which Mr. Saul must know of?

How is this not deliberate deception?

If downtown is Plan A, then leaders should make a firm commitment to it.

Find a site and work to secure the private funding.

Meaning who?

If they fall short,
they should not proceed to a bond referendum for Plan B,
the coliseum complex location.

Instead, they should delay until the private funding is in hand.

To purchase what may be the News and Record's property?

Like for the Aquatic Center?

Wasn't that the plan, until it ended up not being the plan?

Winning a bond vote requires the best plan.

So the plan is to win a bond vote?

Perkins and others offer a strong argument that a downtown GPAC will deliver the biggest bang for the buck -- if private funding is part of the mix.

Where is the argument?

Where are the financials?

What would be the expected operating losses?

What will be the average cost to attend?

If not, voting on Plan B would be a terrible mistake.

Because the the News and Record's property wouldn't appreciate?

It would be more likely to fail, setting back GPAC fortunes for a long time."

Robin, Doug and Allen