Six Glenwood homes will be rehabbed with $100K grant
12/15/2010, Greensboro News & Record
A local nonprofit will renovate and sell six Glenwood homes with the help of a $100,000 grant. Housing Greensboro will receive the money next week from Wachovia Wells Fargo under a nationwide program that helps distressed neighborhoods, according to Housing Greensboro Executive Director Gene Brown.
UNCG revises its redevelopment plan
12/3/2010, Greensboro News & Record
UNCG has a modified redevelopment plan for the Glenwood neighborhood designed to address some of the concerns residents have voiced in recent months. University officials have scaled back plans for growth south into the neighborhood — to build student apartments, a recreation center, police station and pedestrian underpass.
City officials tour Glenwood
10/12/2010, Greensboro News & Record
Glenwood residents wanted to make a good impression on the city staffers who toured their century-old neighborhood Monday evening for a get-acquainted program. Residents fed city employees snacks and displayed old pictures and articles that described the area’s roots.
Consultant will work with UNCG and Glenwood
9/21/2010, Greensboro News & Record
UNCG is footing the $16,000 bill for an Illinois-based planning firm that will help it and Glenwood residents iron out details about the university’s expansion in the neighborhood. The city is extending its contract with Teska Associates, the same firm that consulted on the Lee Street/High Point Road Corridor redevelopment plan, to allow the firm to work with UNCG and Glenwood.
UNCG seeking input on expansion
6/9/2010, Greensboro News & Record
UNCG officials have asked Glenwood for feedback about their plans to expand into the neighborhood, and residents plan to give it to them. Barry Scarbrough, president of the Greater Glenwood Neighborhood Association, said a committee has been formed to focus solely on neighbors’ concerns about the UNCG project. Those concerns will be compiled and shared with UNCG, he said.
Glenwood residents question UNCG’s plans for expansion
5/27/2010, Greensboro News & Record
Many of the Glenwood residents who attended a meeting Wednesday about UNCG’s planned expansion accept that the university needs to grow into their neighborhood. But they weren’t entirely pleased with how UNCG has proposed doing so.
Editorial: UNCG and Glenwood could be ‘best friends’
5/20/2010, Greensboro News & Record
Landlocked UNCG must find room to grow; everybody knows that. What we didn’t know was in which direction and how far. Now, it looks as if the Glenwood neighborhood to the south is a prime target. Residents, who received letters from the university last week making its intentions known understandably feel some trepidation over how and when it all might affect them. But with the proper collaboration and trust-building, expanding the campus across Lee Street should be mutually beneficial.
UNCG tells Glenwood it could use more room
5/18/2010, Greensboro News & Record
UNCG has enjoyed a close relationship with the Glenwood community. That includes the university participating in the neighborhood’s plan for future development. Now, the university is asking Glenwood to let it move in a little more. UNCG wants Glenwood to amend its neighborhood plan to allow the university to expand farther south to Haywood Street.
Community offers diverse mix of history, homes, businesses
5/16/2010, Greensboro News & Record – Triad Homes
A century ago, some Guilford County dreamers wanted Glenwood, N.C., to join the ranks of Albany, N.Y., Sacramento, Calif., and Richmond, Va. “The Carolina Real Estate Investment Company that purchased this property here, in 1909 they actually offered the state of North Carolina 25 acres of land in Glenwood if they would move the capital to Glenwood,” said Lynn Parrish, 53, who grew up in the community.