
{"id":3648,"date":"2008-10-16T07:52:34","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T15:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=3648"},"modified":"2008-10-16T07:52:34","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T15:52:34","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-bad-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/10\/16\/letter-to-the-editor-bad-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: Bad opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read with interest about the recent Orange County development briefing in the 9\/25\/08 <em>Carrboro Citizen<\/em> (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Economic Leaders put on a brave face\u00e2\u20ac\u009d).<br \/>\nChapel Hill reportedly has 200,000 square feet of building underway with 780,000 of it commercial.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nEconomic leaders are glum about the prospects and acknowledge that filling these new spaces will be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153one of the big challenges ahead.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d It was voted that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a better job of matching assets to opportunity\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 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?<\/p>\n<p>This sounds like a bad \u00e2\u20ac\u0153opportunity\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to me. Maybe our brave-faced leaders ought to help Grubb see their folly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thomas Carson<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Chapel Hill<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read with interest about the recent Orange County development briefing in the 9\/25\/08 Carrboro Citizen (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Economic Leaders put on a brave face\u00e2\u20ac\u009d). Chapel Hill reportedly has 200,000 square feet of building underway with 780,000 of it commercial.<\/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-3648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648","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=3648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}