"Center Pointe Secession"

"Residents and leadership
at downtown Greensboro’s Center Pointe high-rise condominium development
voted this week to secede from downtown Greensboro
and create their own district...

Citing dissatisfaction with noise levels, the dearth of on-street parking
...Center Pointe residents said they had no choice but to disengage.

They voted for the measure 18-3, with two of the nay voters arguing
that the measure didn’t go far enough.

...Center Pointe was built by Greensboro developer Roy Carroll in 2007
in the old Wachovia Building...

Carroll himself lives in the penthouse, on the 16th floor.

......a “silence patrol” will be deployed on the grounds outside every evening
to verbally remind people that others are trying to sleep in the building.

...Center Pointe residents who voted for secession
say the current state of affairs in downtown Greensboro left them little choice.

...Greensboro Mayor Robbie Perkins, who lives in the 8th floor,
has already begun a campaign to become mayor of the new entity.

He said he does not see a conflict of interest.

“As mayor of Greensboro, I’ll be able to build bridges between the people of Center Pointe
and the city that surrounds it,” he said.

“My background as a developer makes me sensitive to the needs of others
in developed communities.

It’s a win-win.

“And everyone will be a stakeholder in that downtown performing arts center,” he added...

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