An invitation from our wonderful neighbor After Gateway, located at the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant:
Join us in celebrating our 20th year by donating $1 for every year After Gateway has served our participants from 2001 to 2021! After Gateway is a nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for adults with severe developmental disabilities.
Join us Saturday, October 2nd from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. for our $20 for 20 Celebration! Food trucks, music (Piedmont Blues Society!), games and fun! 501 S. Mendenhall Street.
Can’t make our celebration? Donate on our home page at aftergateway.org!
Fall semester has begun at UNCG, and, as always, there are students struggling without steady income or financial support from their families. The Spartan Open Pantry helps UNCG and Greensboro College students avoid — or overcome — hunger. The pantry provides non-perishable food to students at the two institutions who are facing food insecurity (and to UNCG staff who are struggling as well). Please join the College Hill Neighborhood Association in supporting the SOP today.
The SOP now also provides business casual clothing, shoes and accessories, as well as bedding, towels and, when available, kitchenware.
The Spartan Open Pantry is a joint project of the Wesley-Luther Campus Ministry and the UNCG Dean of Students Office,
News from Hannah Cockburn, City of Greensboro Director of Transportation:
Thank you for the opportunity to engage with the neighborhood and property owners directly impacted by the Spring Garden resurfacing project as we evaluated extending bike lanes in the corridor.
We received a significant amount of feedback from the pop-up event that informed our final decision to install the bike lanes in both directions between Tate Street and Fulton Street. On the balance, survey responses supported this installation. The extension of bike lanes in this location also supports the city’s goals of making Greensboro car optional and the recommendations of the adopted bicycle and pedestrian plan.
We recognize there are trade-offs and negative impacts associated with this change. In an effort to address the impacts and concerns raised, GDOT is:
Reviewing opportunities to add additional on-street parking spaces on intersecting streets in the vicinity of Spring Garden Street,
Signing the lane in front of College Place UMC for parking use during religious services,
Adjusting bus stops to minimize on-street parking impacts along this stretch of Spring Garden Street,
Launching an education campaign to support broader understanding of bike lanes, and
Providing consistent, ongoing parking enforcement in the corridor.
The resurfacing contractor is currently adjusting utility access points in the corridor. We expect the milling process to occur by early June and the resurfacing project to be complete by the end of July, depending on the weather cooperating. The contractor will place door hangers on properties directly impacted a day or two ahead of the milling and paving activities.
Please let me know if there are additional concerns and we will continue to provide updates. Thank you!
News from Hanna Cockburn, Greensboro director of transportation:
The resurfacing contractor is making quick progress toward the resurfacing of Spring Garden Street and is beginning to raise water-service boxes and manholes to the finished elevation. To facilitate this work, the pop up installation will be removed Friday April 23. This will provide room for the contractor to work and allow for more operational flexibility for roadway users.
We will continue to collect feedback on the bike-lane installation through the remix platform and the survey through April 30.
I plan to participate in the neighborhood meeting on April 26th to share the feedback we have received to date and the timeline for final design decisions and any information we have from the resurfacing contractor on schedule.
Veneé won for her Bourbon Banoffee Pecan Cinnamon Rolls. She received $5,000 plus paid advertising and other marketing tools for the business. “Our bakery has seen success from these Brioche Cinnamon Rolls we offer every Saturday, with Bourbon Banoffee Pecan being our best seller,” she told General Mills. “Banoffee” is a combination of banana and toffee that originated in England.
Veneé and her husband, Ian, operate the business at 920 Carr Street. Customers place orders online and pick up their purchases at the house. “Black Magnolia Southern Patisserie is a small batch cottage bakery that provides all made from scratch classic Southern desserts with an elevated French Patisserie flair,” its website says. “Our products are made from locally sourced ingredients with a goal of enriching our community by supporting our local economy.”
Veneé has been baking for about nine years, working at a number of restaurants and bakeries. She won honors as pastry chef for Table 16, the longtime restaurant in downtown Greensboro, and at Sweet Josephine’s bakery in High Point. After establishing Black Magnolia through catering and producing special orders, the couple started baking a menu of items on a continuing basis, all available now as special orders. The menu includes rolls and pastries, pies and tarts, cookies, and custom cakes. Beignets are available one Sunday each month. Black Magnolia baked goods also are sold at The Green Bean on Mondays and Thursdays. The Pawlowskis now are looking for a commercial kitchen where they can increase their capacity.
Black Magnolia is closed on Mondays, which is a happy coincidence for Veneé and Ian. Today is the first birthday of their daughter, Amelia.
College Hill residents are a diverse group, and the business owners and independent professionals in the neighborhood are quite a varied group in their own right. Here’s a list of neighbors who operate their own businesses. Buying local is always a good idea, and it’s never been more important than it is now. Buying hyper-local from our own neighbors is even better.
Who’s missing? This list is a starting point, no doubt incomplete. If you’re a business owner or independent professional who isn’t included yet — or if you know of one — please tell us!
Cutting-edge crypto-coin technology arrives at a convenience store near you.
For those interested in making their lives as complicated as possible, there’s now a Bitcoin ATM at the College Mart on Tate Street. People who have figured out cryptocurrency can use it to buy Bitcoins, Bitcoin Cash and something called Litecoins.
More from Tate Street: Slices by Tony has opened a second location. It’s on Spring Garden Street on the other side of campus between Josephine Boyd and Chapman streets. … Construction is now complete on UNCG’s big new School of Nursing building.
The pandemic has been bad for businesses everywhere, but almost all of the Tate Street businesses are hanging in. Exceptions: Coffeeology, which still has a notice on its door dated last March, saying they’ll reopen when it’s safe to do so. They posted a few updates on Facebook, but nothing since July 4. And Pedro’s Taco House, which has been dark since March.
On McGee Street, Greensboro College has cut down its large, dying sycamore tree. That’s part of a new landscaping project along McGee recently approved by the Historic Preservation Commission. The plan calls for planting elm trees on McGee between College Place and Fulton Street and planting holly trees to screen a new scoreboard for the athletic field, among other things. It’s scheduled to begin this winter. The full plan can be found here.
A belated thank you
Beth and Kim Langlois did a beautiful job of decorating the College Hill signs for the holidays. Their beautification efforts throughout the year make our neighborhood a better place to live.
Downtown Greenway news
Photos from Action Greensboro
From Action Greensboro: The repainting of the bridge supports at Morehead Park on Spring Garden Street has been completed. Artist Darlene McClinton led a team that created the new painting, titled Bridging the Gap.
The section of the greenway running along Greensboro College (the former railroad track) is scheduled to go to bid in April. Construction is planned to begin this summer and to be complete next year. It will be the final section of the four-mile loop around downtown.
Our website is a resource for College Hill residents and anyone interested in our neighborhood and historic district. The blog on our home page or our welcome page are places to start.
College Hill
Neighborhood Association
Monday, April 25, 7 p.m.
The meeting will be held as a Zoom teleconference: Click here to login. Meetings will be held via Zoom until further notice.
Historic Preservation Commission
Wednesday April 27, 2022, 4 p.m., via Zoom videoconferencing.
To view the meeting or speak on an agenda item, contact Stefan-Leih Geary by 10 a.m. Tuesday, April 26. You will be emailed the online meeting link and instructions on how to participate. There is no option to provide handouts or other documents the day of the meeting.
If you have a presentation, pictures or other materials you would like to provide as part of the hearing, provide it to HPC staff by 10 a.m. Tuesday, April 26.
In-person meetings are usually held in the Plaza Level Conference Room, Melvin Municipal Building, 300 W. Washington Street. The alternate location is the City Council Chamber.
The Weatherspoon is open. Downtown venues are back in business. Check the Local Events page for links to major events, major venues, university event calendars and Greensboro’s busy local arts scene (much of which happens downtown).
