Burlington Times-News reports on discussion of a regional partnership to develop the Guilford County prison farm:
Officials from Alamance and Guilford counties met on Oct. 2 in Raleigh with N.C. Secretary of Commerce Sharon Decker to discuss preliminary plans on how the site’s infrastructure could be developed to attract future business. The prison farm, located near Gibsonville on the Alamance-Guilford border, was passed over last year by a perspective company.
Among those who attended the meeting were Burlington City Manager Harold Owen, Alamance County Manager Craig Honeycutt, and Gibsonville Mayor Lenny Williams. Guilford County was represented at the meeting by Greensboro Mayor Robbie Perkins, Guilford County Commissioner Linda Shaw, Guilford County Manager Marty Lawing, Greensboro City Manager Denise Turner Roth and Greensboro Assistant City Manager for Economic Development Andy Scott.
Utilities and transportation are an issue, which is why ‘Project Swordfish’— an ‘unnamed company’ planning “an economic development project including 450 jobs and a $96 million investment” —rejected the site late last year. Guilford County’s been trying to sell the farm since it opened its phat $100 million jail.
