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Elite Transportation Group Inc. says they move steel from the Triad directly to Baltimore, Maryland and surrounding areas.

GREENSBORO, N.C. — A local economist said North Carolina could feel the effects of the Baltimore Key Bridge collapse here in the Triad.

"The impact in North Carolina would be mainly in terms of automotive, where you may have delays in deliveries, " N.C. A&T Economics Assistant Professor Amit Malhan said, "It's also a big port for soybeans and coal, and those products may be impacted."

A Triad trucking company said they are making adjustments to deliver their product.

Elite Transportation Group Inc. said it moves steel from Greensboro directly to Baltimore, Maryland, and Fairfax, Virginia.

The owner of the small business told WFMY News 2 they make the trip about four times a month and are adjusting their routes.

"We will now use what we call in the trucking industry interior routes which means we will use the back woods," owner Bianca Long said.

Long said the drive might take longer and cost more, but she is prepared.

"When I say longer, I don't mean days; if we could do the trip in ten hours now, it may take 12 and a half," Long said, "Because of longer routes and smaller roads, we have to take more detours because of the weight and size of the lanes."

Long said adjustments are worth it because America runs on transportation companies.

She said her company is very busy in the Triad and moves about 70,000 pounds of cargo five days a week. Elite Transportation Group Inc. transports items including silk, cloth, and yarn.

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Don't worry — the animals from the Discovery House are here to stay.

GREENSBORO, N.C. — The Greensboro Science Center's Discovery House is closing its doors, but it's to make way for a new exhibit — The Greensboro Biodome & ARCC.

Crews are preparing for construction and the center is excited to be making the transformation for its guests to explore. The GSC said the area that is currently the Discovery House will soon becomme the entrance to the new Biodome.

The animals from the Discovery House will still be around. A new holding space is being created for them as well, so they can remain animal abassadors in the center's programs.

GSC also said the Discovery House bathrooms and SKYWILD will remain open for the time being.

In the meantime, the center will continue to update everyone of the progress of the Biodome.

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The new location will reach more residents in the Triad and divert 2.7 tons of waste from the landfill.

GREENSBORO, N.C. — You probably don't think twice when you throw out an item like this, an old lime or vegetable that's going bad. but did you know that most of the food you leave uneaten if it's not composted it goes to a landfill which is not good for our environment.

Well, there's a Triad collection program that is hoping to make a change.

Driving along 400 W Radiance Dr. in Greensboro, you'll find a green bin, but this can isn't holding trash instead it's collecting food waste.

"It's good to know and try to be as eco-conscious as we can," Dr. Shree Dorestant, Chief Sustainability Officer for the city of Greensboro, said.

"You know, in nature. nothing is wasted," Steve Tate, member of the Congregational United Church of Christ (CUCC).

Both the city and The Congregational United Church of Christ are coming together to help the environment.

The church will serve as a second drop-off location for the community's compost.

According to the Cambridge Dictionary, compost collects and stores plant material so it can decay and be added to soil to improve its quality.

It's all apart of the city's food waste collection program—an effort that was piloted in October last year.

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According to Feeding America, close to 80 million tons of food go to waste every year in the United States. much of them end in a landfill, which can produce harmful gases to the environment.

The alarming trend is being seen in our area.

"For 2023, there were about close to 6,000 pounds of waste collected through the food waste pilot program and then this January and February alone it was over 6,000 pounds," Dorestant said.

Don't let the numbers scare you, anyone can help reduce food waste and it all starts with what you throw away.

“We are incredibly proud of the Food Waste Collection program, and excited to extend the program to a new location to reach more residents. In 2023, the pilot program diverted 2.7 tons of waste from the landfill, saving an estimated 2.34 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions," Dr. Dorestant said. “We expect the program to grow even more in the coming year.”

The compost bin will take things like meats, veggies, and shellfish. You put it in a compostable bag, bring it to the bin, and toss it in. Other items include:

The waste is then composted by Triad Compost Service.

The city and the community are doing their part to help reduce their carbon footprint.

"There are some small practical things that you can do that can make a big difference," Tate said.

"Why not collect your food waste and take it where we are returning it back to Mother Earth?," Dorestant said.

To participate in the program, look for the green-labeled carts at each drop-off location. For more information, visit the City’s webpage or tap HERE.

Earlier in March, demolition began on one of the most prestigious houses in Greensboro after a sale to Greensboro billionaire Roy Carroll.

After an entity associated with the Carroll family purchased prominent Greensboro businesswoman Bonnie McElveen-Hunter's former mansion at 710 Country Club Drive in Irving Park for $4.5 million, many community members expressed surprise once Carroll began to demolish the home.

McElveen-Hunter told Triad Business Journal that when she sold the home she did not know that the buyer was thinking about tearing it down. She added that if her family had known that the house would have been torn down, they would have made different arrangements instead of selling it Carroll had responded in a statement by saying that McElveen-Hunter could have deed restricted the property or sought protections for the main house on the Historic Registry, neither of which she chose to do.

The demolition has caused conversation in Greensboro about what options exist for those seeking to limit uses of a property after a sale, especially for historic homes. The Triad Business Journal spoke with Steve LaSota, real estate development attorney and a partner at Brooks Pierce, and Greensboro Register of Deeds Jeff Thigpen about what options exist for those looking to restrict their property after a sale and how effective they are.

LaSota said when a property is sold, the seller can put restrictions in the deed about how the property can be used after the sale. However, he said this can be problematic for multiple reasons, the first being that as a general rule, the law tends to disfavor what is called restraints on alien ability.

"What that means really is that we want people to be free to use their property and sell their property and do what they want with their property, for the most part," he said. "So deed restrictions can be difficult to enforce and have to be very carefully crafted to be enforceable."

However, the primary factor that can keep these restrictions from always being useful, LaSota said, is the question of who will enforce the restriction.

"The grantor, the person who put the restriction in the deed, would be able to enforce the restriction but presumably that person or people are not going to be around for an extended period of time," he said. " So, because of that, deed restrictions are not a very effective way to preserve property.'

LaSota also said it is important to note that historically, deed restrictions have been used for "less than noble purposes," such as excluding people of color from ownership of a property.

"Obviously, those are illegal now, but we've just got a history of being very suspicious of restrictions in deeds," he said.

Thigpen said he has not recently seen any covenants in deeds that would prevent demolition, but he would not be surprised if it is something that homeowners associations are considering given the discussion surround the former McElveen-Hunter home.

LaSota said when it comes to the protection of historic property, there are three levels of potential protection, which have increasing degrees of effectiveness.

The first option is registration of the National Register of Historic Places, which is a federal program. However, LaSota said it does not provide a large amount of protection and is more a mechanism to recognize historic areas and historic properties. The program allows federal money to be designated for grants and tax credits for the preservation of the property but does not provide many outright prohibitions or restrictions about what can be done with a property, he said.

The second level of protection would be local zoning ordinances, LaSota said. North Carolina local planning and development regulations allow municipalities to adopt codes and ordinances that identify historic districts and historic landmarks. He said zoning ordinances provide stronger protections than the National Register of Historic Places, but are "still not airtight."

"Within those rules, if you were in a historic district, you're subject to the rules and guidelines provided for that district, and a review process before undertaking any major changes to what's on the property," he said. "At the end of the day, they cannot prevent you from ultimately demolishing a property, but the process can be delayed for up to a year in order to find alternative solutions."

The most protective step would be to grant a preservation easement of one's property to a third party, LaSota said. Under the North Carolina Conservation and Historic Preservation Act, the state allows individual property owners to enter into preservations easements granted to a third party, typically a nonprofit organization that helps preserve historic properties. He said this solves the problem of who will enforce the restriction on the property.

"It's typically more effective because not only can the organization enforce the easement, they're also well versed in understanding future contingencies that may happen, for example, if a property ultimately became completely infested with termites, there may be nothing you can do to save the property — but they're going to do everything they can within the terms of the easement to do so," LaSota said.

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