
{"id":20753,"date":"2011-09-15T09:57:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T13:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=20753"},"modified":"2011-09-15T16:38:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T20:38:07","slug":"letter-development-raises-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/09\/15\/letter-development-raises-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: Development raises concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a citizen of Carrboro, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m concerned about the plans to build grocery and retail stores on what is now the Roy Lloyd farm \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the swath of land directly across Carrboro Plaza on N.C. 54. (Most Carrboro dwellers will know it as that plot of land near the post office where cows graze the green hill.)<\/p>\n<p>My concern is as follows: I truly don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe that a retail\/grocery complex is a viable use for that land. My evidence is as follows: I can count pretty high before I run out of retail\/residential spots in Carrboro and Chapel Hill that now lie fallow or at most, suffer from under-tenancy. Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s try it!<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 East 54 (brand-new, high-end, poorly tenanted; right next to the Fresh Market shopping center which isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t doing so well itself);<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 University Mall (plenty of parking; \u00e2\u20ac\u0153anchor stores\u00e2\u20ac\u009d like what they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re touting for the Lloyd complex, but still not enough shoppers to keep it healthy);<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 that semi-hidden piece of retail space right on Franklin Street across from the Siena Hotel (with its rotating restaurants);<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 University Square (a slow death, but mortal, nonetheless);<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Greenbridge (still at only 40 percent occupancy);<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 605 W. Main in Carrboro (which hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been full since it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s completion).<\/p>\n<p>So my point: The old line that goes \u00e2\u20ac\u0153build it and they will come\u00e2\u20ac\u009d isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t exactly accurate. My personal eyeball market research tells me that a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153high end\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (read: complicated rooflines and cheeseball lampposts) shopping center on the way out of Carrboro on 54 is a folly. I see, in the future, another big parking lot with a bunch of weeds growing from the asphalt. This, folks, is what they mean when they say, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153urban blight.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Erica Eisdorfer<br \/>\n<em>Carrboro<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a citizen of Carrboro, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m concerned about the plans to build grocery and retail stores on what is now the Roy Lloyd farm \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the swath of land directly across Carrboro Plaza on N.C. 54.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20875,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20753\/revisions\/20875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}