Eye Septor For Contact Lense Users

Uptown Greensboro business man and inventor, Sherman Harris Jr. has invented a new, safer and cleaner way to handle contact lenses using his new tool, the Eye Septor.



The Eye Septor is being manufactured locally and will soon be available. For more info see EyeSeptor.com.

Uptown Greenway Trails

We'd like to see a combination walking and bicycle trail built along the creek that runs from Phillips Ave @ Autumn Drive through Gatewood Park to Sullivan Street @ Huffman Street. Such a route would provide bicycle and walking routes from Northeast Greensboro across the Uptown to NC A&T University and Downtown. And the City of Greensboro already owns the property. A spur trail could parallel Headquarters Drive and connect with Lindsey Street next door to the A&T Football Stadium. It could even skirt the Historic Aycock Neighborhood and tie in with the Downtown Greenway.

In the more commercial areas along the trails a new sort of business opportunity would open up for businesses that cater to walkers, joggers and bicyclists with everything from bicycles and running shoes to restaurants, thus making the commercial areas among the safest and most used portions of the trails.

Later this section of trail could be extended beyond Phillips Avenue and into Woodmere Park where it could tie in with trails into Edgeville, Kings Forest, Neiltown Farms, Mount Zion and beyond. While we understand that such a trail might already be on the radar for the Greensboro Metropolitan Planning Organization it is our hope that this project will be moved to the top of the list as Uptown Greensboro and the neighborhoods beyond are sorely lacking in walking and bicycling trails that connect to Downtown Greensboro. As a matter of fact, there are currently no such trails in Uptown Greensboro or any of the afore mentioned neighborhoods that make up almost 1/4 of the entire population of the City of Greensboro-- not one even though other neighborhoods that are less dependent on bicycles and walking already have such trails.

Or you could give us an Uptown Greensboro Performing Arts Center.

Growing The Uptown: Business Ideas

Of course I'd like to see more of the usual uptown amenities like art galleries, cool restaurants and music venues but there are some things Uptown Greensboro needs more. So if you're thinking of starting a small business somewhere in the Uptown, please consider the following;

Manufacturing. Nothing employes people like manufacturing. Manufacturing is what built this city and until we're able to return to a local manufacturing based economy we can expect to continue to struggle economically. Sure, insurance, banking, pharmaceutical, data centers, transportation and others are all great money makers but every city in the world is chasing the same targets and most, including Greensboro, will never catch enough. What's that? You need ideas for products that aren't being made by the Chinese? I've got dozens and would love to share my ideas with people who can make them happen. But not on the Internet-- the Chinese might be reading too.

A garden center that caters to backyard gardeners, hydroponics, vertical gardening, container gardening and backyard poultry.

We could sure use another grocery store-- especially in or near the northeast corner of the Uptown.

A glass recycler as there are none in Greensboro. Yes, the city does accept glass bottles but no one in Greensboro recycles plate glass. A privately owned glass recycling business could do both and there's more than enough money in cullet to afford buying glass from the public, converting it to cullet (stupidly simple) and reselling it to glass manufacturers.

Someone who sells and installs wood pellet stoves and furnaces. Or any other kind of waste to energy product. The waste is here.

Tiny houses for those of you who seem to think building is the only way to fuel a local economy.

A book store would be a welcome addition but in today's economic environment that might be dreaming.

A retailer that concentrates and sources the closest available goods-- a local store.

More later!!!