I read with interest about the recent Orange County development briefing in the 9/25/08 Carrboro Citizen (“Economic Leaders put on a brave faceâ€).
Chapel Hill reportedly has 200,000 square feet of building underway with 780,000 of it commercial.
Economic leaders are glum about the prospects and acknowledge that filling these new spaces will be “one of the big challenges ahead.†It was voted that “a better job of matching assets to opportunity†is needed countywide. Would someone please tell me, then, why Grubb properties seeks to level bucolic Glen Lennox so they can add millions more square feet to the mix?
This sounds like a bad “opportunity†to me. Maybe our brave-faced leaders ought to help Grubb see their folly.
Thomas Carson
Chapel Hill