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Greensboro (/ ˈ ɡ r iː n z b ə r oʊ / ⓘ; [5] locally / ˈ ɡ r iː n z b ʌr ə /) is a city in and the county seat of Guilford County, North Carolina, United States.At the 2020 census, its population was 299,035; it was estimated to be 302,296 in 2023. [6]
Others were originally villages before being incorporated as part of the city. Still more complicated is the fact that in some parts of Greensboro, especially the central areas of East and South Greensboro, residents have long been more likely to identify with the name of their section of the city than with any specific neighborhood name.
The Woolworth's store is notable as the site of the Greensboro sit-ins of 1960. [2] [3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, with a reevaluation in 2003, and boundary adjustments in 2023. [1] The most recent changes included adding city and country government buildings completed by 1975. [4]
Four Seasons Town Centre is a three-story shopping mall in Greensboro, North Carolina.Opened in 1974, it was the first enclosed shopping center in Greensboro. Currently it is anchored by Dillard's and JCPenney and it is the only indoor shopping mall within Greensboro's city limits; however, nearby Friendly Center, an outdoor shopping plaza, has many of the same tenants.
Piedmont Triad International Airport (IATA: GSO, ICAO: KGSO, FAA LID: GSO; commonly referred to locally as "PTI") is an airport located in unincorporated Guilford County, North Carolina, west of Greensboro, serving the Piedmont Triad region of Greensboro, High Point and Winston-Salem as well as the entire Piedmont Triad region in North Carolina, United States.
In 1984, the Vernon Building was sold to the First South Properties, an arm of the First Baptist Church, for $167,500. In 1985, John Meier bought the building for $175,000. Meier and his wife Beverly operated Anna Marie, a retail and women's apparel manufacturing company.
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The former alignment south of Winston-Salem has been fully signed as I-74; work has begun on US 311 signage removal on this alignment. US 421 enters the region from the southeast, and joins I-85 in Greensboro. It then takes I-85 South to I-73 North to western Greensboro. The route is then co-signed with I-40 briefly.