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  • From: Chris Rossi <rossi AT webslingerZ.com>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: artscenter complex
  • Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:39:56 -0500

grady wrote:

p.s. is Carrboro really crying out for another 400,000 square feet of commercial space? Just from looking around, I don't see the kinds of space/rent pressures (tons of legacy businesses still in the same locations they've been in for ages) that would suggest a huge need for new commercial space.
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In several articles I've read, as well as in phone calls to the office, they keep talking about how awful it is that they have lost businesses like webslingerZ to Chapel Hill. We liked Carrboro much better than our present location, but couldn't find any affordable space there when we needed more room. So we're out by Timberlyne now, which isn't awful, but not nearly as cool as being in downtown Carrboro. I can't comment on whether or not their priorities are in or out of whack, but they do repeatedly hold up our company as an example of how they're losing businesses due to lack of good, affordable, commercial space.

Seems like Carrboro is in greater need of affordable housing.

Seems like you need both, or else you end up with a suburb type situation where everybody lives in one place and works in another and clogs the roads twice a day getting from one to the other.

rossi




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