Page 32 - The City of Greensboro Conditions and Trends

CITY OF GREENSBORO COMPREHENSIVE PLAN CONDITIONS & TRENDS

will help to expand the pool of candidates. There is opportunity in Greensboro to capitalize on the educational and training
resources already available in the community to help meet the skills gap at the local level.

Greensboro already has an established maker’s movement. Local co-working facilities and support groups like The Forge,
Co//ab, the Nussbaum Center for Entrepreneurship, and Made in Greensboro are successful examples. Kitchen Connects
GSO was launched in 2017 to support local food-business entrepreneurs through a grant from the US Department of
Agriculture. Mixed use areas could be encouraged by integrating low impact manufacturing into a broader range of zoning
categories.

Industrial building permits filed with the City of Greensboro decreased over the 16-year period examined in the April 2017
Trends Report, so loss of land zoned for industrial use may not be a problem in the short-term. However, if portions of large
industrial land tracts are rezoned or change to non-industrial uses, there will be less land available to attract large
manufacturing companies to the area in the future.

DRAFT -32- March 15, 2018