No deal to transform the Guilford County prison farm into an industrial park, at least not yet.
Local media coverage has been interesting, to say the least. Try to keep up— on Tuesday county commissioners take the first step to hopefully transform the prison farm into an industrial park. On Thursday we read in the N&R about a “mystery company” that’s looking to bring 400 jobs to proposed industrial park. That’s the same day we read in the Rhino that ain’t happening, and the N&R follows up that development in this morning’s edition.
Anyone who follows local news here on G’boro knows the alt-weekly Rhino regularly beats the N&R, but this one had to be particularly tough for the local daily, considering how quickly this story developed.
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14
2012 At 9:00 am, Roch Smith Said:
You “must of” missed this:
http://www.news-record.com/content/2012/09/13/article/company_pulls_out_of_prison_farm_project
14
2012 At 9:09 am, Sam Hieb Said:
It’s linked in the post, Roch…check the time…11:51 pm…quite a while after the Rhino hit the streets
Never the mind the online stories..if print still matters — I assume the N&R thinks it does..bottom line is I saw this in the Rhino on Thur and the N&R on Friday…
14
2012 At 9:18 am, Roch Smith Said:
“Updated 11:51 pm”
14
2012 At 9:25 am, Sam Hieb Said:
OK……and?
16
2012 At 1:07 am, Scott Yost Said:
Not to gloat or anything, but for the sake clairity, Sam you are correct. My story in the Rhino came out Thursday morning, the same morning that the N&R had a big story about the mystery company interested in the farm. We knew the N&R wouldn’t have the story about the deal falling through because the few people who knew were supposed to treat the matter as highly confidential. I firmly believe if we had not gotten the story, then, to this day it would still be a secret that the deal had fallen through because it is embarrassing to some people that the commissioners voted on Tuesday night to move a prison farm that had been there 100 years, and the very next day the deal fell through. When John Hammer and I saw the N&R Thursday morning, we were smiling because we knew that, after they saw the Rhino, they would have to post on the web that the deal was dead. Later that day it showed up on the N&R website and, the following day, Friday,the N&R ran a story in the paper that the deal was dead.
19
2012 At 7:38 pm, Billy Jones Said:
And had it not fallen through it would have looked like this: http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2012/09/greensboro-and-guilford-county.html