Greensboro 101

GREENSBORO, NC — With the stroke of a pen, an assistant city manager assigned the right to sublease the city-owned restaurant space to a third party who will now siphon into its bank account all of the rent that used to go to the public coffers. So when supporters of Café Europa say that “the city wants to lease the space to the highest bidder,” that elides the fact that the city is no longer leasing the space and has permitted a third party to step in and receive and keep the rent. It is the redirection of income from a publicly-owned facility to private hands that is most objectionable aspect of this whole affair and of concern to all residents.