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Being from Greensboro, I'm old enough to remember the city 30 years ago (I was 9), I can tell you downtown was dead outside of normal business hours during the week. Friday and Saturday nights downtown was a ghost town even 20 years ago. Quite frankly, it was a bland southern city 30 years ago which was still dominated by the textiles industry and people nicknamed it Greensboring. If you sought nightlife you didn't go downtown, you went to the High Point Rd strip (now Gate City Blvd). And even then it was nothing more than restaurants, the mall and a few strip clubs. Today downtown is far more active day and night with a number of big projects opening within the next 3 years such as the 3,000 seat Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts, Hyatt Place, Westin and Aloft hotels along with midrise apartments and three planned towers. Greensboro's population has grown pretty steadily. In 1990 the city had a population of 183,000. Today it's close to 290,000 getting near the brink of the 300,000 people. The city's economy is evolving from textiles to Aerospace/Aviation, advanced manufacturing, distribution and logistics and with Arch Capital moving its corporate headquarters to Greensboro and the U.S. headquarters of the Lincoln Financial insurance division in downtown , the city's economy is growing in the insurance sector as well. Btw Arch Capital will be the largest mortgage insurance company in the United States after recent acquisitions.
Ha ha. I don't mind that in NC. The problems start in VA and get worse the further North you go. When I lived in Fayetteville and drove to PA to visit family, I started cutting over to 81 so that I didn't have to go anywhere near Washington.
LOL! I remember when Crabtree Valley was an actual swamp!
Me too....happens every time a major storm moves through!
I'm thinking OP is very young. US-1 was a two-lane road from 64 to Crossroads until I was in high school. I graduated HS in 2007.
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