Rocky Mount is a nice city!!!!!!

[melbern]

Originally Posted by assassins_creed

New Bern has a small but wonderful historic district. It's downtown is relatively small, yet thriving. It needs to redevelop that very old low income housing project adjacent to downtown that is located on prime waterfront property to call it a 100% successful revitalization project. Quite a lot of crack heads and idle citizens walking around.

That neighborhood is next to mine ...and all of us agree it needs to be developed. I don't necessarily see it as a problem because of who lives there, but more because it is a waste of potential tax revenue and further development. Waterfront public housing does not make good economic sense - never mind the structures are fairly decrepit and the buildings closest to the river have water issues. However (I've heard about 10 different stories and who knows which is true) - there is actually a lease issue associated with the property. Some say it is up in 5 years, other 10, others never... The latest story I heard was 5 years. We'll see!

[rainroosty]

Exactly right, Billjr.. By the way, the only reason I dropped by this thread is because I have always liked Rocky Mount and I saw it in the title. I'd love to go back to Rocky Mount!

[ShadowNC]

Originally Posted by Rogers29

Pretty laughable post. Rocky Mount is around 70 percent black now. Even a lot of the western side is african american now.

Well he did cite the US freaking census as his source so I'm a little more inclined to go with his stats.

Thanks for the great post assassins_creed, nice to see some well reasoned thoughts on here.

[Rogers29]

His census data is outdated. Rocky Mount is 70 percent african amercan now. 56 is completely, completely laughable.