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Post by Maxell on Mar 23, 2018 14:04:50 GMT -5
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Mar 23, 2018 14:42:55 GMT -5
hey, i didn't see the new engineering building in those plans. what happened? is it no longer in our plans?
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Post by SixtiesAggie on Mar 23, 2018 16:26:42 GMT -5
The money for engineering has been appropriated. A&T and state were funded at the same time. Remember both schools submitted their new engineering building request at the same time, and were turned down together. They resubmitted again a couple of years later. Raleigh couldn't award money to state without giving money to A&T for a 100mil project. Both projects cost about the same amount.
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Post by Jesse Jackson's Side eye on Mar 23, 2018 21:44:12 GMT -5
hey, i didn't see the new engineering building in those plans. what happened? is it no longer in our plans? The new plan illustrates post 2020, in this timeline the ERIC is already built (but for reference on the map, its on the corner of E. Market & Dudley)
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Post by KidHeartless on Mar 24, 2018 8:50:15 GMT -5
what he said. this is looking ahead towards 2035....whew.......
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Post by KidHeartless on Mar 24, 2018 11:26:26 GMT -5
Realistically, We could pay off the House of Prayer for the old post office land and develop that as a mixed-use development. They also could buyout those strip malls across from Buford and Dowdy and build onto the land behind the student housing on Benbow Rd. i get the feeling HOP is not gonna let that land go
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Post by SixtiesAggie on Mar 24, 2018 16:05:36 GMT -5
The money for engineering has been appropriated. A&T and state were funded at the same time. Remember both schools submitted their new engineering building request at the same time, and were turned down together. They resubmitted again a couple of years later. Raleigh couldn't award money to state without giving money to A&T for a 100mil project. Both projects cost about the same amount. Remember I said that the money is there for the new engineering building. It will be located in the space that Hayes-Taylor YMCA occupied. The shopping centers aren't going anywhere any time soon. They will cost a fortune to purchase. And I don' see those owners willing to sell. The university acquired all of the property that was across the street from campus along old East market back in the early sixties, and expanded the campus. Market Street moved a block over near the tracks. The university really wants to move the campus bordered by Bluford, Laurel and Dudley Streets down to Lindsay Street. That's a great strategic move for expansion. Unlike many of the private schools and large state institutions, we don't get super multi-millions from alums and friends to do much of what most folks would like to see done on the campus. However, A&T continues to plough ahead.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Mar 24, 2018 17:06:02 GMT -5
hey, i didn't see the new engineering building in those plans. what happened? is it no longer in our plans? The new plan illustrates post 2020, in this timeline the ERIC is already built (but for reference on the map, its on the corner of E. Market & Dudley) got it, thanks... Sent from my SM-G950U using proboards
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Post by marchingband1969 on Mar 25, 2018 9:07:28 GMT -5
Plans and land we have...what we need now is money! There's a lot we want but we just have to have patience. The good news for us is our Administration has a vision of the future needs. But until they find some funds, we'll have to wait.
As bad as I want a functioning band room and thriller his baseball stadium, we will have to accept that there's just so much money to go around. I'm not saying we should stay silent about our wants but we do have to be realistic.
I hope I live long enough to see the Engineering building at Hayes Taylor Y and the new building across from Frazier Hall, the renavated Memorial Stadium and a new band room.
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Post by Blackfoot on Mar 30, 2018 0:42:56 GMT -5
Wow...great info folks. And the sign, well, its a clean design. I can't wait for the engineering building and baseball stadium either. However, if the HOP isn't going to/doesn't have any plans to do anything with the land across the street - there's got to be a way to convince them to come off of it. We could definitely use it.
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Post by Bornthrilla on Mar 30, 2018 7:30:01 GMT -5
Clarification: I am not campaigning for a new baseball stadium. I just want a baseball stadium that has a functioning scoreboard.
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Post by Jesse Jackson's Side eye on Mar 30, 2018 10:37:55 GMT -5
Wow...great info folks. And the sign, well, its a clean design. I can't wait for the engineering building and baseball stadium either. However, if the HOP isn't going to/doesn't have any plans to do anything with the land across the street - there's got to be a way to convince them to come off of it. We could definitely use it. Blackfoot the HoP has plans for the land, what they don't have is the Capital to execute it. They want to use their own funds, will not get loans and refuse to partner with the City or any other entity for development. I'm not a Gboro resident and hell I'm frustrated with their lack of progression. Either build something or sell for a profit. In a perfect world, I wish A&T could enter into a Land swap agreement with the HoP <trolling> but we have a better chance of getting year round Green Grass in Aggie Stadium before the HoP comes off that land <trolling/>
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Post by Bornthrilla on Mar 30, 2018 11:05:34 GMT -5
Allen Johnson: Developer eyes site (gasp) on the other side of the tracks
Aug 27, 2017 Andy Zimmerman is looking to the east for his latest and greatest urban reclamation project. The home-grown developer is exploring a possible purchase of the former site of the Greensboro post office on East Market Street. The site, which now resembles a thatch of prairie in the shadow of the downtown skyline, has lain fallow for 16 years. Zimmerman and Wilson Lester of the Greensboro Community Development Fund plan to contact the current owner, the United House of Prayer for All People, to gauge its interest in selling. Or in partnering on a project. The church, headquartered in Washington, D.C., has held the land for 11 years and so far done nothing with it. In 2006, the East Market Street Development Corp. announced plans for a mixed-use development and the church hired a Cincinnati design firm to conceive a “community-focused” project. It never materialized. N.C. A&T Chancellor Harold Martin said in May that he explored a partnership to develop the land that had fizzled. Martin, who wants more and better development around A&T, was visibly frustrated. He’s not alone. “We’re frustrated, too,” Mac Sims, president of the East Market Street Development Corp., said last week. “We’ve had conversations with them many times,” Sims said of House of Prayer leaders. Sims said City Councilman Jamal Fox had tried to move the project forward before Fox resigned to take a job in Portland, Ore. So did Mayor Nancy Vaughan and Mayor Robbie Perkins before her. “Nothing has changed from day one.” Read more: www.greensboro.com/opinion/columns/allen-johnson-developer-eyes-site-gasp-on-the-other-side/article_0433d4c3-9de5-5cda-9387-6799ea888586.html
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Post by Bornthrilla on Mar 30, 2018 11:09:02 GMT -5
If the HOP keeps playing around, the city is going to file a Eminent Domain suit and just take that land and cut them a check.
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Post by KidHeartless on Mar 30, 2018 13:42:04 GMT -5
We could REALLY use that land................ijs
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