Greensboro ( Ã, ( listen ) ; formerly Greensborough ) is a city in the state of North Carolina USA. It is the 3rd most populous city in North Carolina, 68th largest city in the United States, and the county seat and largest city in Guilford County and the surrounding metropolitan area of ​​Piedmont Triad. In the 2010 census, the city's population was 269,666, and by 2015 the population estimate was 285,342. The three major interstate highways (Interstate 85, Interstate 40 and Interstate 73) in the Piedmont region of central North Carolina were built to intersect in the city.
In 1808, "Greensborough" (spelling before 1895) was planned around the central courthouse square to replace Guilford Court House as the county seat. Therefore, the county court is placed closer to the county geographical center, the location more easily achieved by then by the majority of citizens, who depend on horses and feet to travel.
In 2003, Greensboro - Winston - Salem previously - the High Point metropolitan statistical area (MSA) was redefined by the Office of Management and the US Budget. This area is separated into MSA High Point Greensboro and MSA Winston-Salem. The population of 2010 for MSA High Point Greensboro is 723,801. The combined statistics area (CSA) of Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point, popularly known as Piedmont Triad, has a population of 1,599,477.
Among the many famous attractions of Greensboro, some of the most popular include Wet 'n Wild Emerald Pointe water park, Greensboro Science Center, International Civil Rights Museum, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro Symphony, Greensboro Ballet, Triad Stage, Wyndham Golf Championship, headquarters of Atlantic Coast Conference, the Greensboro Coliseum Complex hosting various sporting events, concerts and other events, Greensboro Grasshoppers from South Atlantic Baseball League, Carolina Dynamo from Premier Development Soccer League, Greensboro Swarm of the NBA G League, Greensboro Roller Roller, and Folk Festival National.
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History
Initial history
At the time of the European meeting, the residents of the Greensboro area were the ones who spoke Siouan called Saura. Other indigenous cultures have occupied this area for thousands of years, usually settling along the waterways, as did the early settlers.
Quaker migrants from Pennsylvania, through Maryland, arrived at Capefair (now Greensboro) in about 1750. The new settlers began organizing a religious service affiliated with Cane Creek Friends' Meeting at Snow Camp in 1751. Three years later, 40 Quaker families were given consent to establish the New Garden Monthly Meeting. (This action was recorded in the minutes of the Perquimans and Little River Quarterly Meeting on May 25, 1754: "To Friends at New Garden in Capefair", signed by Joseph Ratliff.) The settlement expanded rapidly over the next three years, adding members from as far as Nantucket in Massachusetts. It soon became the most important Quaker community in North Carolina and the mother of several other Quaker meetings established in the state and west of Appalachian.
After the Revolutionary War, the city of Greensboro was named after Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene, commander of the American rebel forces at the Battle of Guilford Court House on March 15, 1781. Although America lost the battle, Greene's troops inflicted heavy casualties on British Army General Cornwallis. After this battle, Cornwallis withdrew its troops to the British coastal base in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Greensboro was established near the geographical center of Guilford County, in a land of "unbroken forests with thick huckleberry bushes, containing smooth-smelling fruits." Properties for future villages are purchased from Saura for $ 98. Three north-south roads (Greene, Elm, Davie) are laid out intersecting with three east-west streets (Gaston, Market, Sycamore). The courthouse is built amid the crossroads of Elm and Market. In 1821, the city was inhabited by 369 residents.
In the early 1840s, Greensboro was appointed by the state government as one stop on the new railway, at the request of Governor John Motley Morehead, whose plantation, Blandwood, was in Greensboro. Stimulated by rail traffic and better access to markets, the city grew substantially, soon known as the "City of the Gate" for its role as a transportation hub for Piedmont. Trains carry goods to and from cotton textile mills. Many manufacturers develop worker housing in factory villages near their facilities.
Textile companies and related businesses continue into the 21st century, when most are bankrupt, rearranged, and/or merged with other companies because the work of textile manufacturing is moving abroad. Greensboro is still the main center of the textile industry, with the head office of International Textile Group (Cone, Burlington Industries), Galey & Tuan, Unifi, and VF Corporation (Wrangler, Lee, The North Face, and Nautica). The ITG brand, cigarette maker Kool, Winston and Salem, is the third largest tobacco company in the United States and headquartered in Greensboro. Train traffic becomes important to the city's economy, as Greensboro is a major regional transit hub. In addition, four Amtrak passenger trains stop in Greensboro daily on the Norfolk South main line between Washington and New Orleans via Atlanta.
Although the city grew slowly, the initial wealth generated in the 18th and 19th centuries of the cotton trade and merchandising resulted in the owners building several notable buildings. The earliest, later named Blandwood Mansion and Gardens, was built by a grower in 1795. This addition to the residence in 1846, designed by Alexander Jackson Davis of New York City, made the house as influential as the earliest Tuscan-style villa in America. It has been designated as a National Historic Landmark. Other important plantations and plantation houses were developed, including "Dunleith", designed by Samuel Sloan; Bellemeade; and the Bumpass-Troy House. Since the end of the 20th century, the latter has been adapted and operates as a private inn.
Civil War and the last day of the Confederation
By the mid-19th century, many Piedmont and western states were Unionist, and Guilford County did not vote for secession. But, once North Carolina joined the Confederacy, some residents joined the Confederate cause, forming an infantry unit like Guilford Gray to fight in the Civil War. From 1861 to March 1865 the city was relatively untouched by the war, though the population had to deal with shortages of clothing, drugs, and other items caused by the US marine blockade in the South.
In the final weeks of the war, Greensboro played a unique role in the last days of the Confederate government. In April 1865 General P. G. T. Beauregard was instructed by the Tennessee Army commander, General Joseph E. Johnston, to prepare for the defense of the city. During this time, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and the rest of the Confederate cabinet members have evacuated the Confederate Capital in Richmond, Virginia, and moved south to Danville, Virginia.
When the Union Cavalry threatened Danville, Davis and his cabinet managed to escape by train and regroup in Greensboro on April 11, 1865. While in town, Davis and his cabinet decided to try to flee abroad to avoid arrest by Union's victorious troops. ; they left Greensboro and parted company. Greensboro is famous as the last place where the entire Confederate government meets as a group: it is considered by some of the "final" capital of the Confederation.
At about the same time, Governor Zebulon B. Vance left Raleigh, the capital of North Carolina, before Union General William Tecumseh Sherman troops swept through the city. For a brief period from April 16, 1865, he and other officials defended the state capital in Greensboro. Governor Vance proclaimed the Declaration of the Submission of North Carolina on April 28, 1865. Later, Vance surrendered to the Union official in the living room of Blandwood Mansion. Historian Blackwell Robinson writes, "Greensboro not only witnessed the collapse of the Confederacy but also about the old civilian government of the country."
After the surrender negotiations were settled at Bennett Place (in Durham today, North Carolina) between General Johnston and General Sherman on April 26, 1865, the Confederate army in Greensboro piled their hands and received their parole, and headed home.
Industrialization and growth
After the war, investors worked to restore textile factories and related industries. In the 1890s, the city continued to attract the attention of northern industrialists, including Moses and Caesar Cone of Baltimore, Maryland. The Cousin brothers set up large-scale textile factories, turning Greensboro from village to town within a decade. In 1900, Greensboro was considered the center of the Southern textile industry, with large-scale factories producing denim, flannel, and overalls. The resulting prosperity is expressed in the development of a well-known 20th century civilian architecture, including Guilford County Courthouse, West Market Street, United Methodist Church by SW Faulk, several buildings designed by Frank A. Weston, and Julius I. Foust Building of North University Carolina in Greensboro, designed by Orlo Epps.
During the twentieth century, Greensboro continued to increase in population and wealth. Large commercial and civil buildings, many of which are still standing today, were designed by local architects Charles Hartmann and Harry Barton. Other important industries were established in the city, including Vicks Chemical Co. (renowned for over-the-counter cold medicines like VapoRub and NyQuil), Carolina Steel Corporation, and Pomona Terra Cotta Works. For the first three decades, Greensboro grew so fast that there was a shortage of acute workers housing. Builders set a target of building 80 to 100 affordable home units per year to provide homes for workers. Greensboro real estate was considered a "state wonder" during the 1920s. Growth continues even through the Great Depression, as Greensboro attracts about 200 new families per year to its population. The city gained a reputation as a well-planned community, with a strong emphasis on education, parks and a lucrative employment base.
It has two major public research universities, North Carolina A & amp; T State University, a black history college founded in the late 19th century, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. During the height of the civil rights movement in the early 1960s, students from A & amp; T was a major force in the protests to achieve racial justice, public facilities desegregation, and fair employment, starting with Greensboro Four, who sat in a segregated lunch counter at Woolworth's in 1960 to get service. The largest civil rights protests in North Carolina's history took place in Greensboro in May and June 1963. In the 21st century, the university is a leader in the field of new research in high-tech and science, where the city hopes to build a new economy.
Wartime and postwar prosperity brings development, and design is commissioned from nationally and internationally recognized architects. For example, Walter Gropius, leader of the German Bauhaus movement in the United States, designed a factory building in the city in 1944. Greensboro-based Ed Loewenstein project throughout the region. Eduardo Catalano and George Matsumoto were hired for projects whose designs challenged the North Carolinians with the concept and form of modernist architecture.
Civil rights movement
In 1960, the Census Bureau reported the Greensboro population as 74.0% white and 25.8% black. As in other states, most blacks are still deprived of their rights under state law, Jim Crow's laws and customs apply, and public facilities, including schools, are racially segregated by law. This was after the US Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. The facilities provided to blacks are generally underfunded by state and municipal governments, dominated by conservative conservative whites.
In the postwar period, blacks were encouraged in North Carolina and in the South to regain the ability to exercise their constitutional rights as citizens. College students from North Carolina Higher Agriculture and Engineering (A & amp; T), a black history college, make Greensboro a center of protest and change. On February 1, 1960, four black students sat at Woolworth's "all-white" lunch counter, and refused to leave after their service was refused. They've bought items in other parts of the store and have their receipts. After being denied lunch, they issued a receipt, asking why their money was good elsewhere in the shop but not at the lunch counter. Hundreds of supporters soon joined the sit-in, which lasted several months. Such protests quickly spread throughout the South, eventually leading to the desegregation of lunch counters and other facilities at Woolworth's and other chains.
Woolworth's was out of business due to changes in retail practices of the 20th century, but the original Woolworth dining and dining tables were still in their original location. The former Woolworth building has been adapted as the International Civil Rights Center and Museum, which opened on 1 February 2010, 50th anniversary of sitting. (Part of the counter is on display at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. to mark the bravery of civil rights protestors.)
The white business community approved Woolworth's decentralization and made other small concessions, but the civil rights movement had an additional purpose, protesting in 1962 and 1963. In May and June 1963, the largest civil rights protest in North Carolina's history took place Greensboro. Demonstrators seek the desegregation of public accommodation, and economic and social justice, such as employment policies based on merit rather than race. They also worked for the integration of public schools, because the US Supreme Court had decided in 1954 that the separation of public schools was unconstitutional. Every night, more than 2,000 protesters marched through the separate Greensboro business district districts. William Thomas and A. Knighton Stanley, coordinator of the local chapter of CORE Greensboro, invited Jesse Jackson, who was a student activist at A & amp; T, to join the protests. Jackson quickly became famous as a student leader, becoming a public spokesman for the nonviolent protest movement. Seeking to overwhelm city jails, as was done in a protest led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Birmingham, Alabama, demonstrators invite arrests in violation of local business segregation rules; they are charged with offenses and other non-violent acts. High and high school students were mostly protesters, and at one point some 1,400 blacks were imprisoned in the city of Greensboro. The scale of protests disrupted the business community and challenged the leadership of the mayor and Governor Terry Sanford.
Finally the urban and business communities responded with further public facilities desegregation, reforming the city's recruitment policy, and a commitment to go forward by the mayor of Greensboro and the governor of Sanford. Sanford states, "Anyone who has not received this message does not understand human nature." Significant changes in race relations still came at a very slow pace, and the verbal commitment of white leadership in 1963 was not carried out substantially. Dudley_High_School/A & amp; T_protests Dudley High School/A & amp; T protest
In May 1969, James B. Dudley's high school students were angry when the government refused to let a popular candidate run for president of the student union class, which was allegedly due to his membership in the Youth for the Black Societal Union. After their appeals to school were denied, the students asked activists in North Carolina A & amp; T State University for support in protest. Protests are increasing and after students at A & amp; T throw a rock to the police, they return on May 21 with a tear gas canister weapon, using this against the crowds. The uprising grew, and the governor ordered the National Guard to support the local police. After a shootout, the governor ordered the National Guard to campus A & amp; T, in what was described at the time as "the biggest armed attack ever committed against an American university." The National Guard swept the college dormitory, bringing hundreds of students to "protection". Demonstration pressed. The interference was investigated by the North Carolina State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights; his 1970 report concluded that the National Guard invasion was a reckless act because it was not proportional to the danger posed by student protests. It criticized local community leaders for failing to respond adequately to Dudley High School students when the first issues arose. They state it as "a sad comment that the only group in the community that will take Dudley's students seriously is the students at A & T State University."
Greensboro Massacre
When making progress, African Americans in Greensboro continue to suffer prejudice. On November 3, 1979, members of the Communist Workers' Party (CWP) held an anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the black neighborhood of Morningside Heights. It was covered by four local TV news stations. During the protests, two cars containing KKK supporters arrived. After the confrontation, KKK and CWP groups exchanged shots. Five CWP members were killed and eleven CWP members and one Klansman was injured. Television footage of the action is featured nationally and worldwide, and the event is known as the Greensboro Massacre. In November 1980, six defendants KKK were each released in a state criminal trial by a white jury after a week of consideration. The families of those killed and wounded in the attack filed a civil suit against the city authorities and police for failing to protect blacks. In 1985, a jury in the case found five police officers and two others responsible for damages of $ 350,000; the money should be paid to the Greensboro Justice Fund, established to prosecute such cases to advance civil rights.
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Geography
According to the US Census Bureau, the city has an area of ​​131.8 square miles (341.4 km 2 ), where 126.5 square miles (327.7 km 2 ) is ground and 5.3 square miles (13.7 km 2 ), or 4.01%, is water.
Greensboro lies between the hills of Piedmont North Carolina, nestled between the Blue Ridge and the Great Smoky Mountains to the west and the Atlantic coast and the Outer Banks to the east. View of the city from the tallest building - Lincoln Financial Tower (commonly known as the Jefferson-Pilot Building after the previous owner) - shows a stretch of shady trees in the city. Interstates 40 and 85 intersected in the city, and the I-73's plan was to get past its border.
City center area
Downtown Greensboro has attracted development investments in recent years with new construction such as Yadkin Bank Park, and housing and offices. Downtown Southside exemplifies the reinvestment of downtown. The previously economically depressed environment has been rebuilt as an award-winning neotraditional environment featuring walkability, compact blocks and local facilities and services. Downtown Greensboro has an active nightlife with a number of nightclubs, bars and restaurants.
The rebuilding of the city center was triggered by the opening of Elon University Law School in 2006. Law schools are credited with attracting student dollars to the city center both day and night.
Four Seasons/Coliseum Area
The Four Seasons Town Center is a three-storey shopping center with 1,141,000 square feet (106,000 m 2 ) shopping space developed by Koury Corporation. Located at 410 Four Seasons Town Center, this hotel is adjacent to Koury Convention Center and Sheraton Hotel. Offering more than 250,000 square feet (23,000m 2 ) flexible meeting rooms, the Joseph S. Koury Convention Center is the largest convention center in the Southeast between Atlanta and Washington, DC The hotel has over 1,000 rooms.
The Greensboro Colony is located at 1921 W. Gate City Boulevard. The multi-purpose complex consists of 22,000-seater Coliseum Greensboro, 2,400-seat War Memorial Auditorium, 300 Odeon Theater seats, and a 167,000 square-foot Special Event Center (15,500 m 2 ), which includes three exhibition halls , a mini-arena of 4,500 seats and eight meeting rooms. The 30,000 square foot pavilion (2,800m 2 ) is located adjacent. The Coliseum website records a complex host of "a wide range of activities, including athletic events, cultural arts, concerts, theaters, educational activities, exhibitions, exhibitions, and public and private events of all types including conventions, conventions and trade shows and consumers.
The War Memorial Auditorium has been destroyed.
Airport area
In 1998, FedEx built a $ 300 million airborne aerial center and air separation center at Piedmont Triad International Airport, following intensive competition for hubs among other states in the state, as well as locations in South Carolina. The project was challenged in court based on planned noise quality and pollution reduction from the nearby neighborhood of the planned hub site. The Hub was opened in 2009. Originally projected by FedEx to hire 750 people in the first two years of operation and finally 1,500, local FedEx jobs are almost the same as before the facility was built.
In March 2015 HondaJet, with its manufacturing facility in Greensboro, announced that it has received a temporary type certification (PTC) from the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). This achievement demonstrates the FAA's approval of the HondaJet design based on certification testing, design reviews, and analysis completed to date.
Climate
Greensboro, like many in the southeastern United States, has a humid subtropical climate (KÃÆ'¶ppen Cfa ), with four distinct seasons. Winter is short and generally cold, with daily daily average of 38.9 ° F (3.8 ° C). On average, there are 75 nights per year that drop to or below freezing, and 4.3 days fail to rise above freezing. Measured snowfall occurs almost every winter, and accumulates to a normal 7.5 inches (19.1 cm), usually in January and February and sometimes December and March; the actual amount may vary from winter to winter. Cold-air damming (CAD) can facilitate freezing rain, often making it a more urgent concern than snow. Summer is hot and humid, with a daily average in July of 78.5 Â ° F (25.8 Â ° C). There is an average of 32 days per year with altitudes at or above 90 ° F (32 ° C), but, as in many of the Southern Piedmont, 100 ° F (38 ° C) readings are rare. Autumn is similar to spring in temperatures but has fewer rain days and less total rainfall. Extremes in temperatures have ranged from -8 Â ° F (-22 Â ° C) on Jan. 21, 1985, to 104 Â ° F (40 Â ° C), on July 17, 1914.
Lightning often occurs during the humid and summer months, some of which are very severe. On April 2, 1936, at around 7:00 am, a large F-4 tornado cut the 11-mile (11 km) destruction vein through southern Greensboro. 14 people were killed and 144 wounded by tornadoes, which moved through the central part of the city. The storm was part of a plague known as the 1936 Cordele-Greensboro plague tornado. Strong tornadoes have hit the Greensboro area ever since, especially Stoneville on March 20, 1998; Clemmons and Winston-Salem on May 5, 1989; Clemmons and Greensboro on May 7, 2008; and High Point on March 28, 2010.
Demographics
At the 2010 census, there were 269,666 people; 111,731 households; and 63,244 families living in the city. Population density was 2,131.7 people per square mile (822.9/km ²). There are 124,074 housing units with an average density of 980.8 per square mile (378.6/km²). The racial composition of the city is 48.4% White, 40.6% Black or African American, 4.0% Asian American (1.6% Vietnamese, 0.7% Indian), 0.5% Native Americans, 0.1 % The Hawaiian Native or Pacific Islands Others, 3.8% are some other races, and 2.6% are two or more races. Non-Hispanic whites were 45.6% of the population in 2010, compared to 70.9% in 1970. People of Hispanic or Latino heritage, who may be of any race, in 2010 were 7.5% of population (4.6% Mexico, 0.7% Puerto Rican).
Of the 124,074 households in the city in 2010, 30.1% included children under 18, 35.5% headed by married couples living together, 16.5% had non-husbands female households, and 43, 4% are classified as non-family. Of the total households, 33.8% consists of individuals, and 9.0% are individuals living alone aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.31 people, and the average family size was 3.00.
The age distribution in 2010 was 22.7% under the age of 18, 14.5% from 18 to 24, 28.2% from 25 to 44, 23.1% from 45 to 64, and 11.5% 65 ages years or more. The median age was 33.4 years. For every 100 women, there are 88.7 men, and for every 100 women age 18 and over, there are 84.6 men.
For the 2011-15 period, the estimated average annual income for households in the city is $ 41,628, and the average income for families is $ 53,150. Male full-time workers have an average income of $ 40,143 compared to $ 34,761 for women. The per capita income for the city is $ 25,929. Approximately 14.6% of families and 19.3% of the population live below the poverty line, including 25.9% of those under the age of 18 and 10.5% of those aged 65 and older.
Religion
In Greensboro, 48.33% of the population is affiliated with religion. The greatest religion in Greensboro is Christianity, with most affiliates being Baptist (11.85%) or Methodist (10.25%). The remaining Christian populations are Presbyterians (3.97%), Roman Catholics (3.71%), Pentecostals (2.61%), Episkopalian (1.17%), Latter-day Saints (1.02%), Lutheran (0.96%), and other Christian denominations (11.03%) including Greek Orthodox, Quaker, Moravian, Christ Church, and non-denominational. After Christianity, the largest religion in Greensboro was Islam (0.82%), followed by Judaism (0.60%). Eastern religions form a minority in Greensboro (0.34%).
Economy
The Greensboro economy and the surrounding Piedmont Triad region have traditionally been centered around textiles, tobacco, and furniture. The proximity of central Greensboro in the state has made it a popular place for families and businesses, as well as being more of a logistics center, with FedEx having a city-based regional operation.
The leading companies headquartered in Greensboro include Honda Aircraft Company, HAECO Americas, ITG Brand, Kayser-Roth, VF, Mack Trucks, Volvo Trucks of North America, Qorvo, International Textile Group, NewBridge Bank, Fresh Market, Cook, Ham, Biscuitville , Tripps, and Columbia Forest Products. Greensboro is the "operating center" for Lincoln Financial Group insurance company. Greensboro is also headquartered in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
The city leaders have been working to attract new businesses in the fields of nano technology, high technology, aviation and transportation/logistics. University of North Carolina at Greensboro and North Carolina A & amp; T State University opened a joint research park, Gateway University Research Park.
Biggest employer
According to the 2010 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the largest entrepreneurs in the city are:
Top industry
According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics
Arts
Greensboro is home to a wide range of retail shopping from well-known national chains to local boutiques and galleries. Four Seasons Town Center, located on the southwest side of the city from I-40, is a three-level regional mall. Friendly Center, off Friendly Avenue, is an open-air shopping complex featuring the country's largest Harris Teeter supermarket, and a multiplex cinema. The Shoppes at Friendly Center, adjacent to the Friendly Center, is home to many upscale retailers and restaurants like Brooks Brothers and The Cheesecake Factory. At the corner of Market Street, you will find Mal Fanta Center International a mini mall dedicated to foreign exchange, Containing Super G Market. A large International Super Center mixed with flea markets, here you can find typical Euro and East Asian food, ranging from the difficulty of finding spices to authentic oriental food and beverages. Traditional shopping centers are mainly found in the West Wendover corridor near I-40 and on Battleground Avenue on the northwest side of the city. Recently, the "big-box" retailer has been huddled at the site of the former Carolina Circle Mall on the northeast side of the city and in the far south of town along the newly completed urban loop (I-85, I-73). At New Garden Road, a large shopping area has emerged over the last few years.
Sports
Greensboro is currently no place for any top-level professional sports team. The National Hockey League's Carolina Hurricanes franchise moved to Raleigh from Hartford, Connecticut in 1997, but the team played its first two seasons at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex, while at home, Raleigh Entertainment & amp; Sports Arena, is under construction. In addition, during the late 1990s, Minnesota Twins almost moved to the city, even receiving league approval. But the deal failed after local voters refused to finance the budget proposal.
The Grasshopper Greensboro (formerly the Greensboro and Greensboro Hornets) Bat is a small league baseball team located in Greensboro. They are a Class A team in the South Atlantic League and have been the agricultural team at Miami Marlins since 2003. They played at Yadkin Bank Park.
Greensboro's Carolina Dynamo is playing in the Premier Development League, which is currently the top-level amateur soccer competition in the United States. It has 63 teams competing in four conferences, divided into ten regional divisions. It is considered to be the fourth level of competition, behind United Soccer League. The team plays its home game at Macpherson Stadium at the nearest Browns Summit, North Carolina, where they have been playing since 2003. The PDL season takes place during the summer months, the player pool is drawn mainly from an elite NCAA college football player who wants to continue playing high level football during their summer vacations, which they can do while maintaining their college eligibility.
On October 27, 2015, the Charlotte Hornets officially announced that Greensboro will host the affiliate team of the NBA Development League, beating other cities considered like Columbia, Asheville, Fayetteville, and Charleston. The Greensboro Swarm began playing in fall 2016 at the Greensboro Coliseum Pavilion.
Greensboro is home to the Atlantic Coast Conference headquarters, although it does not have schools participating in the league. The Greensboro Coliseum Complex has hosted the ACC Men Tour 23 times since 1967 and the ACC Women Tournament 12 times since 2000. Greensboro also hosted the NCAA Four Men's Basketball Final on four occasions.
The PGA Tour organizes tournaments every year in Greensboro. The Wyndham Championship was held at Sedgefield Country Club and was the last PGA Tour event before the Playoffs for the FedEx Cup. The tournament was founded in 1938 as the Greater Greensboro Open and one of the oldest shows on the PGA Tour.
Greensboro nicknames itself as "City Tournament" because of many host city tournaments tournaments. In addition to hosting the ACC Basketball Tournaments and NCAA basketball games, the city has hosted the ACC Baseball Tournament, the US Figure Skating Figure 2011 and a number of national competitions at the new Greensboro Aquatic Center. In 1974 Greensboro hosted the NCAA Putra Basketball Final Four championship competition. This is the first time the Final Four was held in North Carolina. Charlotte later hosted the Final Four in 1994.
Greensboro Roller Derby was established in 2010 and has been a member of the WFTDA, the Women's Flat Track Derby Association, since 2013. The league consists of three intra-league teams, named after the city's leading streets, as well as an inter-league all-star team and level b, each featuring a skater from three inter-league teams. This league is run by skaters, all of whom are connected to the community, and are nonprofit organizations. The roller derby fight was held at the Greensboro Coliseum between March and November.
Government
Greensboro operates under the council-manager government. Greensboro consists of nine members; all seats, including the mayor, are open for election every four years. The five seats of the council are the district representatives and the three seats are the most elected city representatives.
In October 2015, Nancy B. Vaughan was the mayor.
City Council
- Nancy B. Vaughan, Mayor
- Yvonne Johnson, Mayor of Pro Tem
- Marikay Abuzuaiter, At Large
- Michelle Kennedy, At Large
- Sharon Hightower, District 1
- Dr. Goldie Wells, District 2
- Justin Outling, District 3
- Nancy Hoffmann, District 4
- Tammi Thurm, District 5
Participatory budgeting
Greensboro is the first city in the South to run a participatory budgeting process (PB), in which city residents decide how some of the city's budget is spent. The first cycle is for $ 500,000, running through April 2016, and incorporated into budgets 2016-17, with projects such as mural, bridge repair, and city bus tracking applications selected by the population.
Education
Higher education
The city of Greensboro has many higher education institutions. Universities and colleges are Bennett College, Elon University Law School, Greensboro College, Guilford College, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and Carolina Graduate School of Divinity. Greensboro and the surrounding area are served by Guilford Technical Community College.
Intermediate education
Public education
The public schools in Greensboro are operated by Guilford County Schools, the third largest school system in the state with about 71,000 students being taught. Greensboro has one of the oldest public high schools in the state, Grimsley High School, founded in 1899 as Greensboro High School, and Phillip J. Weaver Education Center, ranked by US News & amp; The World Report as a public high school in North Carolina. It is also home to the first early college in the state, The Early College at Guilford.
Private education
Greensboro is home to many private schools, including the Greensboro Night School, Our Lady of Grace Catholic School, New Friends School School, Caldwell Academy, Hari B'nai Shalom School, Canterbury School, Greensboro Montessori School, Triad Math and Academy of Science, Noble Academy, Vandalia Christian School, Shining Christian College of Light, Catholic School of Saint Pius X, Napoleon B. Smith SDA Academy and Christian School Covenant. This area has two boarding schools: the American Jewish Academy and the Oak Ridge Military Academy, in the nearby town of Oak Ridge.
Media
Newspapers
The Greensboro News & amp; Record , part of a group of newspapers owned by Berkshire Hathaway Corporation, is the main daily newspaper. The Triad Business Journal, part of the American City Business Journal network of business week owned by Advance Communications, based in Greensboro and covers businesses in the Piedmont Triad metropolitan area. The Carolina Peacemaker is a weekly news covering the African-American community. Yes! Weekly is a free alternative newspaper, weekly, and Hamburger Square Post is a free monthly newspaper. The Rhinoceros Times, a conservative free weekly newspaper, temporarily leaves business on April 30, 2013, but returns after a short time.
Television broadcast
Greensboro is part of the designated television market area of ​​Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point and includes the following commercial broadcasting stations (listed by call letter, channel number, network and city license):
- WFMY-TV, 2, CBS, Greensboro
- WGHP, 8, Fox, High Point
- WXII-TV, 12, NBC, Winston-Salem
- WGPX, 16, Ion, Burlington
- WCWG, 20, The CW, Lexington
- WUNL-TV, 26, PBS/UNC-TV, Winston-Salem
- WXLV-TV, 45, ABC, Winston-Salem
- WGSR-TV, 47, Independent, Reidsville
- WMYV-TV, 48, MyNetworkTV, Greensboro
- WLXI-TV, 61, TCT, Greensboro
Greensboro is home to the bureau of Triad of News 14 Carolina. BNT 20.2 is North Carolina's only black television station.
Documentary
- February One California Newsreel documentary in 1960 sat-by by Greensboro Four.
- 88 Seconds in Greensboro PBS Frontline transcript. Reported by James Reston, Jr. Directed by William Cran. Original Airdate: January 24, 1983.
- the Greensboro Boy , a documentary film about the 1979 Massboro Massacre and shadows cast on the survivors.
- The Elvis Presley concert at Greensboro in April 1972 was professionally recorded and part of the Golden Globe Elvis On Tour's award-winning documentary featuring Elvis Presley in three concerts different, in Greensboro and three others; two in Virginia and one in Texas.
- Greensboro: Closer to the Truth - Award-winning documentation about Greensboro.
Local media censors
On January 29, 2013, the city of Greensboro attempted to obtain an arrest warrant against a weekly newspaper Yes! Weekly to stop the publication of a story by Eric Ginsburg that the city's argument would incorrectly reveal police intelligence. In reporting Greensboro police surveillance of local activists and bloggers, the story revealed an email from a Greensboro Police Department sergeant who identified the Greensboro City Council representative Marikay Abuzuaiter as a confidential informant, a characterization questioned by Abuzuatier. The presiding judge rejected the city's request for a temporary restraining order and the story was published on schedule.
Transportation
Greensboro is served by the Piedmont Triad International Airport, which also serves nearby towns of High Point and Winston-Salem as well as the surrounding metropolitan area of ​​Piedmont Triad. Piedmont Triad International is the third busiest airport in North Carolina, averaging 280 take-offs and landings daily. PTI is the hub for Skybus Airlines which is now dead.
The daily submissions of Amtrak Crescent Carolinian and Piedmont link Greensboro with New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, DC, Richmond, Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta, Birmingham, and New Orleans.
Amtrak trains, taxis, local and long-distance buses arrive and depart from Galyon J. Douglas Depot, also known as the Greensboro station, on Washington-East-236-C East Road. Originally built in the early 1920s, the station and depot were renovated in 2004.
The Greensboro Transit Authority offers public bus services throughout the city, including a service called Transit Higher Education Area, or HEAT, which connects city center attractions to county colleges and universities. Regional public transport throughout the metropolitan area is coordinated by PART, Piedmont Regional Regional Transportation.
The Greensboro Greenway is a bike lane that is being built to get around downtown Greensboro. It will connect to another lane and lead to the Bur Mill Park area and further afield.
Interstate highways
- Interstate 40
- Interstate 85
- Interstate 85 Business
- Interstate 73
- Interstate 785
- Interstate 840
Interstate 40 and Interstate 85 share the same highway facility for a few miles in the Greensboro area. The consolidated highway, now a crossroads of Interstate 40/Business 85, is located just south of the city center and forms the western end of a known highway stretch across the region as a "Death Valley", highway stretches of traffic and accident-prone. in which six major federal and Interstate routes combine to become a highway facility.
Construction is underway at Greensboro Urban Loop, a highway that, when completed, will circumnavigate the city. Part of this beltway can form an interstate 73 alignment. US Highway 29 - which travels through the southern, eastern and northern parts of the city before heading northeast toward the Reidsville suburbs - is the main route in Greensboro and offers highway access to more of its urban and central areas.
Famous residents
Animal
- Susie is a half-pit bull that was rescued in 2009 from abuse as a puppy in Greensboro. She has been trained as a certified therapy dog, and taken to schools, churches and hospitals to promote kindness and respect. She is owned by Donna Smith Lawrence and her husband, Roy, now of High Point. Coverage of her story inspired by state law in 2010 that makes animal torture a low-level crime. The dog's story is told in the 2013 movie Susie Hope by Uplifting Entertainment. In 2014 Susie is nominated for the Therapeutic Dog category from the Human Heroes Humanie Association award.
Fictional characters
- Cross Country Name (G.I.Joe), "real" Sgt. Robert Blais, is H.A.V.O.K. driver G.I. Tim Joe in the Marvel/IDW comic series, as well as the Sunbow cartoon; born and raised in Greensboro.
- Ender Wiggin, also known as Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, is the protagonist of Ender Game.
Twin Cities
Greensboro maintains a "sister city" relationship with three cities to foster international friendship and cooperation.
- Montbà © liard, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-ComtÃÆ'  ©, French
- Buiucani Sector, Chi? in? u, Moldova
- Yingkou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China.
See also
- 1936 Cordele-Greensboro tornado outbreak
Note
References
Bibliography
External links
- The city of the official Greensboro website
- The Greensboro & amp; amp; Visitor Bureau
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