36 Pages This Week
Thursday, April 27, 1989
Winston-Salem Chronicle
'The Twin City's Award-Winning Weekly" . VOL. XV, No. 36
Buyer interested
hi building mall
hear Jetway mart
By TONYA V.SMITH
Chronide Staff Writer
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1 A buyer is interested in building a shopping cen
ter off New Walkertown Road across from the Jet
Way Shopping Center, but a local real estate broker
handling the deal doubts the project "will get off the
ground."
Alyson Adams said someone is interested in
building a shopping center at the site but, "I don't
, think well ever get it off the ground because of the
competition of another planned shopping center
down the street. I don't think there's really room for
another shopping center."
Ms. Adams was referring to the New Walker
town Market. a $4 million project being developed
by Afro- American developer Herman Turner.
The Winston-Salem Board of Aldermen agreed
in February to sell the 9.3 acres of city land to the
East Winston Community Development Corpora
tion. The CDC will, in turn, convey the land to New
Walkertown Associates, the ownership corporation
for the center, in exchange for 20 percent of the
company's stock. Half of the CDC's profits from the
shopping center will go to -the city towards the .?]
$214,774 price owed on the land. City officials have ^
estimated that it will take the CDC 10 years to pay
the city for the land located off New Walkertown
Road between Dellabrook Road and Gerald Street
. Thoma*H^8ehram, with ihttca/a Development^
Office, said lie was not aware of mu&m plaaatfr'
shopping center off New Walkertown Road.
Ms. Adams did confirm "talk" of a shopping
center but she declined to release the interested buy
er's name.
? ? James ft.. Grarr, arting rhair nf thr, POT Rnarrl
of Directors, told members of the East Winston^
? Development Task Force Tuesday that all the docu
ments setting up the shopping center project are in
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Colorful hot-air balloons provide a subject (or photographs taken by young
stars from the ChlMran'a Cantar lor the Physically Handicapped during their
"Picture Perfect Day."
Expert gives draft
report to Task Force
Study shows E. Winston needs
more retail, housing, entertainment
By TONYA V, SMITH
Chronicle Staff Writer
The first "real" study of East
Winston-Salem shows that the
area has potential and could be a
very viable addition to the city in
the areas of housing and retail
development, said Ernest H. Pitt,
chairman of the mayor-appointed
East Winston Development Task
horce.
The study represents the pre
liminary findings of the consult?
ing firm of Hammer, Siler George
Associates. Based in Silver
Spring, Md., the firm was hired
last year to conduct a comprehen
sive economic development study
of East Winston.
"I think the study is signifi
cant, first of all, because it really
constitutes the first real study
that's ever been done on East Win
ston and it does not paint as nega
tive a picture of the area as many
people believed," Mr. Pitt said. 'It
- shows that there is the potential
for housing development and
retail development and for once
we have a fairly accurate assess
ment of the spending power of the
residents in East Winston and we
have confirmation thai mgfo of the
-^Spendable income leaves the black
-community."
The East Winston area has an
expenditure potential of about $56
million, according to the study.
However, retailers in the area only
capture about 38.4 percent of that
$56 million.
"Interviews with area resi
dents show a strong propensity to
drive to shopping centers in other
areas of Winston-Salem, especial- 4
ly for shoppers' goods purchases
and services unavailable near their
homes and businesses, and they
have adjusted their life styles
accordingly," reads the study.
"However, residents stated that
they would .shop withinthestudy
area if the quantity and quality of
retail offering were expanded."
East Winston residents spend
14 percent of their income at
Northside Shopping Center off
Patterson Avenue, the study says.
An interesting note for devel
opers, said task force member
Charlie Reavis, is the zero sales
dollars East Winston residents
spend on entertainment within
their area. The study indicates that
the entertainment expenditure
potential is roughly $4.7 million, _
-but there are no entertainment
facilities ? skating rinks, bowling
alleys, etc. ? in the area.
"That's good news for devel
opers," Mr. Reavis said. "Devel
oper types art going lo go there
and know there is a market for
something."
The consultant's draft report
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NAACP board imposes 'gag rule'
By TONYA V.SMITH
Chronicle Staff Writer
T
The NAACP Executive Board has imposed a local
"gag rule" that would necessitate the removal of any com
mittee member who publically speaks about the organiza
tion's issues without going through the proper channels,
said President Walter Marshall.
HWe have imposed a local gag rule on Executive
Board members and any Executive Board member that
makes a statement to {he media that has not been approved
by the Executive Committee, the Public Relations Com
mittee or the president will be dealt with and removed
from
The board met in a closed door session for three
hours Tuesday night to discuss recent controversies sur
rounding the organization, Mr. Marshall said.
"The biggest thing we discussed was just to start
operating again as an organization and stop acting as indi
viduals," he said. "Problems that the local chapter has had
is because we weren't following our constitution because
everybody did not have a copy of it Now everyone has a
constitution."
The Executive Board also voted, on the advice of
NAACP state branch attorney Romallus Murphy, not to
take another public stand on the county commissioners
election plan, Mr. Marshall said
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In memory of Rochon
By TONYA V. SMITH
Chronicle Staff Writer
A local song writer has written a jingle and a draft of a song in
memory of Rochon Monique Carney, the nine-year-old Afro-American
girl who was struck by a car and killed earlier this month.
James L. Bennett, minister of music at Pinehaven Church of Christ
at 3395 Peters Creek Parkway, said Rochon's death should never have
happened.
"When I first heard the news of the child's death I started writing a
lyric that was describing how I felt," said Mr. Bennett 1 was writing
this song and in the midst of working on the chorus I came up with this
jingle."
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Summit leaders say
meeting successful
By KEVIN McGlU/ w
Associated Press Writer
: NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Atten
dance was no test of the success
of the African American Summit
*89, said the chairman of the three
day gathering of blade leaders that
ended Sunday.
'The real test will be whether
there are some things that come
out of here that have a relationship
and meaning for the lives of mil
lions of people in this country
who right now are in crisis," said
former Gary, Ind., Mayor Richard
Hatcher.
Jesse Jackson's Saturday speech
and Louis Farrakhan's fiery Sun
day morning address drew the
conference's largest and most
enthusiastic crowds/ packing
1,000 sd|ts. V
But Onfy a week before, organiz
ers predicted a crowd of at least
2,000. And 17 earlier, 2,700
came to a similar meeting Mr.
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