With its growing airport, FedEx hub and upgraded highway system,
the Piedmont Triad has one of the better transportation networks
on the East Coast
What it needs now,…is…a planned region, filled with advanced manufacturers, transportation companies and good jobs surrounding Piedmont Triad International Airport
As the economy transitions to the next era of economic prosperity, should many well-run businesses and high-paying jobs be attracted to what could be a financially sound, safe, and well-managed Greensboro, North Carolina, with a highly skilled workforce, low taxes and sustainable debts, coupled with a developed transportation and technological infrastructure?
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But why just around the airport? East Greensboro is full of hundreds of thousands of empty square feet of manufacturing and warehouse spaces at prices far lower than anything that could ever be built near the airport. And we've higher unemployment in East Greensboro than in West Greensboro-- why is no one talking about putting the existing infrastructure back into play and putting the jobs WHERE the people live?
New infrastructure is great but building new infrastructure while abandoning perfectly usable existing infrastructure seems a bit insane to me. Why build new when we're not utilizing the existing?
I live in East Greensboro. For years and years I commuted to West Greensboro to work but now that my job is only 1 mile from my home I'm saving more money in transportation cost than I lost by leaving the higher paying job across town.
I will never return to being forced to commute to work-- any job too far away to walk to work is out of the question.
"East Greensboro is full of hundreds of thousands of empty square feet of manufacturing and warehouse spaces at prices far lower than anything that could ever be built near the airport. "
Excellent Point. Greensboro already has relatively inexpensive available infrastructure to recruit business. What we are going to need in the near to mid-term future are low debt levels, taxes and safety to bring jobs from places like California, Florida etc… that are imploding.
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