Business owners weigh UNCG development
12/27/2011, News 14 Carolina
Business owners along a stretch of Lee Street in Greensboro are reacting to UNCG’S plans for development. The UNCG/Glenwood mixed-use village will include an underpass below an active railway to help get UNCG students safely from the village to the south end of campus. The University plans to expand the campus to the south across railroad tracks and to the West Lee Street area.
GLENWOOD RESCUE
12/20/2011, Greensboro News & Record
UNCG has embarked on an expansion into Glenwood that will change the makeup of one of the city’s oldest neighborhoods. But Preservation Greensboro wants to save as much of Glenwood’s character as possible and is doing so, house by house. PG recently bought three houses in the neighborhood that the university had slated for demolition.
Study touts larger UNCG
9/13/2011, Greensboro News & Record
When UNCG officials go before the City Council tonight, they’ll likely have with them a study that says the proposed development in the Glenwood neighborhood could have an economic impact of more than $590 million in Greensboro and Guilford County.
UNCG is asking for Glenwood rezoning
8/7/2011, Greensboro News & Record
UNCG will ask the Greensboro Zoning Commission on Monday to rezone property in the Glenwood neighborhood to build student housing and a police station. The university wants to build south of West Lee Street, east of Lexington Avenue and north of Haywood Street. UNCG officials are requesting the 16-acre area be rezoned planned unit development, which allows different arrangements for buildings, parking and open space, according to a staff report on the proposed rezoning.
UNCG housing expansion saves a landlord from debt
7/6/2011, Greensboro News & Record
Say what you want about UNCG and its plans to move into Glenwood. As the university has slowly staked its claim in the neighborhood by buying properties to make room for student housing, a police station and recreation center, it has angered, worried and scared some residents. But for Carolyn Tritthart, UNCG held the key that finally set the 66-year-old free.
Glenwood skeptical of UNCG plans
5/16/2011, Greensboro News & Record
UNCG’s vision for its students to live and learn in Glenwood is taking shape, most recently with the hiring of a designer for the police station that will join student housing and the recreation center planned for one of the city’s oldest neighborhoods. But after more than a year of meetings and discussions with Glenwood’s residents, the neighborhood still isn’t ready to welcome the university with open arms.
Letters to the Editor: Glenwood neighbors oppose UNCG’s plan
4/1/2011, Greensboro News & Record
UNCG is planning to build a 225,000-square-foot recreation center in the Glenwood neighborhood. Many residents do not approve of this gigantic building going up in our residential neighborhood.