I love Carrboro. I love living here, playing here and boasting about what a great town it is. But I hate the way our downtown looks. The property at the intersection of Greensboro and Weaver streets (the proposed CVS site) is a disgrace. It is the primary intersection of our town, where thousands of people pass by every day, and it looks like hell – and has for some time, with weeds everywhere, empty, rusted sign frames, some kind of nasty drain-protecting boom material right on the corner, etc.
I understand it is not town owned, but I believe it is the town’s responsibility to make sure it is cleaned up. Where’s the pride? We’re out chasing Oprah to film in this town, and this kind of “scenery†is at the heart of our town square? It’s bad enough that we’ve lived with many months of street construction along Weaver. This is a small lot, cleaning it up and keeping it clean does not take that much money or effort.
Come on all you newly (re)elected town officials, let’s make this happen.
Bethaney Dale
Carrboro
I totally agree that the property at the corner of N. Greensboro St. and Weaver St. needs a cleanup and regular maintenance. It has been an eyesore for years, but now it’s really an embarrassment. It’s like keeping a trash pile on Carrboro’s front porch. Please, somebody do something!
I totally agree. You should organize a volunteer cleanup day. Occupy that site!
Thanks for this letter Bethany. I agree 100%. Here is what I just wrote to Mayor Chilton thanks to your initiative:
Mark,
Please take a look at the letter and comments in the Citizen on the unattractiveness of the corner of G’boro and W. Weaver. We all know that this has been neglected since Community Realty moved out.
Although to my knowledge we have no direct authority over this, it might be helpful if you could write to the property owners suggesting that they show some pride in their good fortune in owning this central location in Carrboro and spruce things up.
I would like to state that Occupy Chapel Hill/Carrboro (OCHC) has informally made an offer to CVS corporate to assume responsibility for the building, and its maintenance, in exchange for its use as an in-door space for our efforts towrds positive social change. This offer was made during the presentation last week at Carrboro Town Hall which presented the current architectural plans.
This offer would allow CVS to avoid placing a chain-link security fence around the property, which they have stated will be necessary to prevent vandalism and to address other liability concerns. It would provide a presence of people in the space to eliminate that need. OCHC has proposed a method for solving all of the problems which Ms. Dale so eloquently pointed out.
As of this writing, those of us representing OCHC in this matter are awaiting any response from the CVS corporate offices regarding our offer.