Efforts to modernize the city of Greensboros Land Development Ordinance appear headed for trouble. Council members hammered staff with questions about the changes during a briefing on Feb. 2.

To make a proposed downtown luxury hotel viable, a consortium of investors led by developer Bridget Chisholm is asking the city of Greensboro and Guilford County to approve $8 million in Recovery Zone Economic Development Bonds to finance a parking garage and retail shell separate from the hotel itself.

The NC Department of Transportation announced on Jan. 28 that Business 40 from east of Church Street to west of 4 th Street in Winston-Salem will be closed for two years for major improvements.

Several companies owned by Don Angell or members of his family operating at Meadowbrook Mall.

Ranaan Meyer, Nick Kendall and Zachary De Pue performed a perfectly funky yet elegant set with the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra (led by Dmitry Sitkovetsky). Last Thursday's energetic performance at the War Memorial Auditorium was the first of three consecutive performance nights during their Greensboro visit.

The city of Greensboro has obtained a temporary restraining order against Lost Dimensions and the Bares Den, a duplex of strip clubs, located in the Randleman Road corridor, as a first step in a nuisance abatement case to close the businesses. Two fatal shootings have occurred there in recent years.

Financial advisors from four companies will be in Greensboro to offer pro bono advice about personal finances, savings, debt, budgeting and investing on Thursday and Friday. Your Money Bus.

The city of Greensboro will begin pumping water out of the Randleman Reservoir in the late summer, Water Resources Director Allan Williams.

Ignite Greensboro's "Let's Raise A Million" project is open to all volunteers. Volunteers will deploy from East White Oak Community Center, located at 1801 10 th St.

About 75 vendors and customers showed up for a public meeting at the Guilford County Cooperative Extension on Jan. 6 to discuss the future of the Greensboro Farmers Curb Market, which has been strained in recent years by disputes over enforcement of rules designed to give preference to local growers.