Most people don’t like hearing complaints – but right now City of High Point leaders are asking a lot of people in High Point to share what they can’t stand about the place.
The city is collecting the information in an attempt to find and correct things that hinder quality of life there.
High Point has sent the surveys to a random group of High Point residents in an effort to get feedback on the quality of the services provided by the city and on needs that aren’t being addressed – as well as to hear suggestions for potential improvements.
This isn’t the first time the city has sought out information of this type. In fact, every year since 2007, High Point has surveyed a group of city residents to get their opinions as to what’s right with the city, what’s wrong with it – and in what ways it could be improved.
Every resident doesn’t get asked these questions. Instead, a research company hired to assist the city with the effort uses a statistical sampling method to choose hundreds of city residents.
That feedback is meant to give city leaders a good overall view of what is right and wrong with the city and it’s operations.
In a Thursday, Jan. 14 press release telling residents to be on the lookout for the survey, city officials stated that the information is important and added, “Those who receive a survey are strongly encouraged to fill it out and return it.”
City leaders apparently listen when they hear complaints through the survey. By almost all accounts, High Point has become a much more engaging and thriving city when compared with 13 years ago.
A lack of downtown entertainment in High Point was a major complaint among many residents in 2007. The downtown only came alive two weeks out of the year – during the furniture market. Some of the complaints about High Point at that time was there weren’t enough restaurants and nightlife attractions and, the fact that, at that time, each weekend, many people from High Point would make trips to downtown Greensboro for their nightlife pleasures.
High Point leaders these days now point out that there are so many attractions in downtown High Point now that it’s often the other way around: Greensboro residents may decide to take the short trip to High Point for that city’s restaurants or other attractions.
The city police department is very unjust & are some very disrespectful lying human beings.If Black Lives Matter these so call citizens (Police’s) wouldn’t be lying falsifying police reports then coming to court lying.A black male still don’t have a chance.Where is the second chance act?Something needs to be done.
I’m a new citizen or at least in the past 5 years. I find the embarrassing way we are letting destruction of businesses and trash all around. Start with the Sheetz at Nathan Hunt off S. Main Street. What of the houses in my neighborhood that are allowed to have over grown vegetation that grows in or hangs over others property. Some neighborhoods get first class treatment while the others suffer because ….why? I pay taxes for police officers but in my 5 years here I’ve only seen police maybe 4 times, 2 of which me or the neighbor called them about gunfire. Or the park 2 blocks away that you can’t walk by after dark for fear of attack.
Don’t break the law and you won’t have a problem. I thought all lives mattered!
What a propaganda piece. There’s still nothing here except the furniture festival. Truist Stadium is turning into the biggest white elephant I’ve been around, and now Skip will have us pay for it. This is despite the fact that the real mayor of High Point, Nido Quebin, raised just about the entire cost of the stadium himself. Wonder what he did with the money.
This city reduced its crime rate in 2020 by exporting its thugs to other Triad towns. I’ve seen a plethora of murders in Burlington, Lexington, Greensboro, and others on the news where the perps were from High Point.
Try driving on South Main between Business 85 and the furniture festival area. Full of raised, over indented or misaligned manhole covers driving northbound making it dangerous to drive.
How long does it take to finish Skeet Club Road and Jamestown Parkway? Moved here 7 years ago, and they’re still playing in the dirt.
All this town cares about is Nido and the festival. They don’t care two rips about its people. The real problem is leadership. There’s *my* survey.
Good job, well spoken
Well stated Bryon. Truth!!
High point is turning into one giant ghetto, and full of thugs that won’t think twice about shooting at houses cars, or people.
I can agree somewhat with Bryan with 1 notable exception. The city of High Point has nothing to do really with Skeet club Road. That is a state run project, and the NC DOT ran out of money last year. Limited the crews to working 4 days a week, sometimes not at all because the state did not have any money to pay them.
But for sure this is a propaganda piece. Even if someone were to list legitimate issues the City Council would not their heads and continue on the same path. No changes will be made because the old guard still runs this city
I don’t like all the Taxes we pay
I don’t like those bad roads
I don’t like Car inspection
I knw the city is called High Point,
but does the cost of living has to be soooooooo HIGH really.
I hear you all about the south main sheetz area with the gunshots and the many other crimes taken place throughout the city. I think that we as high point citizens need to take a different look on our look on fighting crimes. I think police are short staffed and over worked. BUT we can help ourselves, the police and the entire high point community by better educating our youth and citizens. I love to see out city leaders and citizens get on board by coming together and taking our schools back by leaving the guilford county school system. Many of our high point citizens don’t realize that the city of high point schools are used by the guilford county school system as a testing ground. That’s right the guilford county school system uses the high point schools to test programs that they are not sure will work for students. Many high point citizens don’t realize that the guilford county schools are teaching two different levels of education. The guilford county schools system teaches Greensboro and the county schools a higher level of education than the students here in high point. High Pointers this is not something myself as a high point resident is simply guessing about. This a fact that I have seen first hand….. I any of you noticed that every time high point central or high point andrews high schools have / get good teachers or principals, those teachers and principals are moved to other schools. How both high schools are struggling when it comes to competing in sports against the surrounding. How most of high point andrews’ students are bused to other schools leaving high point andrews the only 2A school (a school with low population) in the guilford county school system. Have we as high pointers noticed that guilford county commissioners, that mostly staffed by Greensboro citizens, would not support the building of the high point baseball stadium. This none support was done because those guilford county commissioners knew that the stadium would mean that high pointers would not be traveling to Greensboro to spend money in downtown Greensboro. They knew that Greensboro would loose a lot of tax money and revenue. As well as support for their businesses because high pointers would be spending money in our own town and not there in Greensboro. I don’t don’t know about the rest you, but as a citizens here in high point, I’m tired of being treated as a second class citizen i our own county!!!!
The City of High Point Leadership top to bottom is inept. The “good ole boy” system is still very much so alive and well.
The City does not value its employees AT ALL.
The leadership of the High Point Police Department is a relic of the Jim Fealy era! No change, No Forward, thinking. Their mentality is we did it this way in the 90’s so he’ll we should do it the same way now!
Leaders scared to make a decision! You have Captain’s head hunting officers all trying make their way to the top, even if it isn’t true. Just look up the deposition for former Captain Maness she admitted she created her own facts.
The good old boys club still runs High Point!
100% and now they’re being rewarded with a bigger station and more money to harass black and houseless folks.
High Point feels like a slum, apart from Emerywood and around Skeetclub. Address the crime, homelessness, poverty, mental health, panhandling, addiction problems. More community resources to help people and raise them up. Improve the schools. More quality organizations for youth. Update the parks.
I’ve been in this city for over 30 years. Never have they done anything to try to improve the south side, never. I assumed when the I-85 came through that they would try to make some improvements, we had a new hotel to and two nice convenience stores to build on this side but what did the city do, they gave us the new CITY DUMP. I hope your stay will be short lived.
Lack of sidewalks, litter, panhandlers, too many car lots, n main is peppered with trashy businesses… I hope they send me a survey.
High Points only concern is High Point University and it’s expansion. Children don’t have anything to do because of the lack of resources. Simply put, it High Point University doesn’t stand to gain, nothing else matters.
the city is basically just just furniture expeditions which happens about once a year for the outside business ventures and high point university. There’s nothing to do for the citizens.. where are the pop up shops for local businesses ? where are the places to experience the city as a community ? it’s all just sprinkled with furniture stores to hide the fact that this is a awful city owned by deep rooted greedy leaders. i’m hoping and praying one day they fix this issue or it will drive away all the locals out !
Thats way l moved away!!!
In High Point if you don’t live in Emerywood or the Skeet Club area, you are not important to the leaders of High Point. Also, no seems to care when houses are abandoned and unlicensed cars are left all around the houses.
Wow, I have lived here for 65 years. Things have certainly changed during that time. High Point University has been the best urban renewal agent we have ever had. The philanthropy of our citizens is unbelievably high for a city of this size. City hall has tried to implement new procedures for dealing with city staff. If you think that High Point is the only town with potholes and manholes that extend above the pavement, you must not travel much.
For those of you who are so negative, what have you done to try and improve the city? Do you volunteer? If your neighbor’s yard needs upkeep, do you offer to help? There are many groups that are making a difference in this town. Habitat for Humanity is alive and well. Food distribution services abound. We just elected four minorities to the City Council. Downtown revitalization is proceeding. Try making a difference yourself. If there is trash on the street in front of your house pick it up. Finally, look to see if the glass is half empty or half full. The cup may not be full yet, but progress is being made. It is easy to be critical, how about trying to find solutions? Get involved, don’t just be an armchair quarterback on issues you do not have a clue about. And if you can’t say anything positive about the town you live in, Delta is ready when you are!
HPU displaces poor and unhoused and takes vital resources away from people that actually need it in this town. Though the city is busy trying to move and jail them all so…
You said a mouth full, and I agree with everything you said. We / are getting there. If we all get out and make a positive difference nothing can stop high point…
How about stop putting the online gaming establishments in and instead put in youth Rec centers.
I grew up in a city and those centers gave me places to go, things to do and connections and support to figure out what I wanted to do with my life.
Splash pad or city pool would be great. Community garden downtown with free concerts and Friday night outdoor movies?
We have been here a year. I am a traveling account manager, HP is my route. There is definitely a lack of investment Southside. Some amazing small business owners over there. Sweet, caring neighbors that need their city to step up and invest resources like I listed above.
This, so much this. They are awful and now they’re getting a bigger station to harass more black and houseless folks.
I don’t live in HP, but my son does. My long-term outlook is that HP lost the textile, and then the furniture business that so populated the City. HP has been on the decline ever since.
To make the city inviting for business, it needs to lower the tax rates and spending, reduce or eliminate economic meddling, and let the free market take over. In short, a conservative government. There is no quick fix.
That’s exactly what I was thinking – what used to be the furniture capital of the world, now hosts cheap and inferior imported crap for two weeks each year. Once the furniture makers were allowed to send their manufacturing overseas, what did they think would happen to the rest of the city?
Now, HP bows down to the university and does whatever they want. To hell with the citizens.
The crime is way out of hand. Put police in those neighborhoods. Yes I say hood. It has gotten way out of hand. My church was going to buy land around Five Points area. They asked my opinion. I told them everyone would leave the church if they went there. High crime area. I am on the way out. I have had enough of the crime in High Point.
Then of course, Greensboro is out of the question. Murder capitol of Oregon.
Absolutely!!
The South Side & other blighted areas will never improve without the efforts of those who live there! Its not big brother’s responsibility, nor the rest of the taxpaying public to keep throwing money away or trying to polish a turd. Pick up trash, snitch on the criminals, if you rent to them, throw them out. Giving clean needles to addicts makes about as much sense as swiping a fella on death row’s arm with alcohol before he gets a lethal injection. If a person chooses to put a poisonous substance into their body, there are consequences that come with that choice. Ban Narcan & thugs from your neighborhoods. That’s a start.
I have noticed in my life of 60 years. My mom worked at the A&P grocery store where the family dollar resides on main. At that time up to when you could use the public transit and feel safe. I was allowed to walk downtown view the dept.stores window fronts. I felt safe . Then the board of directors of your furniture,cotton mills (fabric), hosiery took the jobs of people who were proud of their work. Sent it to a communist country and others to line the stockholders pockets. No one reflects on the hourly worker. The providers for family. Their job gone. The factories now showrooms or sitting abandoned for homeless and druggies to do their bidding. Look at the center theater in downtown High Point. It was a magnificent piece of artwork outside and inside carpeted polished brass beautiful woodwork. Turned into a showroom. Yes I know now that covid’s in can enjoy something like that even if it was a magnificent piece of art. However ruined just for the sake of a dollar. High Point has turned into a ghost town. Two times a year it serves as a epicenter for furniture sales. Those sales used to be manufactured here in our great country and our great city that was High Point. I realized that covid has paid a toll on the industries all over the world. I was in reference to what has happened to high point. Also everything seems to be painted purple for High Point university. some of those businesses do not deserve to fly a purple banner because those businesses do not meet what I consider to be a good or positive reflection of HPU. County commissioner board of directors all for the city of High Point need to look around they make Dr Qubein do their bidding because they can’t do it themselves. The great baseball field and stadium in the next 5 years will generate very little money due to covid plus was a bad decision to bring it into High Point. It was built it right in the heart of nothing land. Yes there’s crime in High Point, all lives matter. asphalt cheaper than paying for brick pavers because no one drives downtown to see them. The tuitioners from out of state from High Point University lack manners a majority of them. Because Mommy and Daddy give them two cars to drive down here one for campus and one for play. Yes I know neato makes High Point into a great place because he’s removed slums poor housing and he is created a new beginning for a great college. But many of his tuitioners need to listen to Dr Qubein’s speeches about how he got here and the manners that he has and the way he carries himself , versus I’m better than everybody else. You’re in the south we were born and raised with manners here the greatest majority of us. your disrespected if your handicap because you can’t park in a handicap spot due to the fact that young people and other people decide that they can use Grandma’s handicap card to park there to make it easy to go into their stores. Or they just park up on the dad blame sidewalk with their music blaring. Police are afraid to approach them and don’t ask them to do anything they don’t write tickets. most of that group speeds down the streets and weaves in and out of traffic don’t even get pulled. Because they cried discrimination if they’re pulled. I wish this town would grow up and put a thumb on itself it could be a great town again but you sold your soul to the devil. Is there redemption? it will be because somebody cares about the town and not about making a name for themselves. This is what I’ve seen in my years living in High Point. I only have a voice and I wish to share what I see. It’s not a reflection on the people that live in High Point and are happy.
HPU is a great source of revenue for the city and the merchants. Is there another major industry in the city? As to student misbehavior, the city turns away in that they spend a lot money here.
Very like Myrtle Beach, especially during bike weeks, the city allows as much as they can. MB has a high murder rate, too.
Way to many panhandlers…. this morning from Johnson thru no. main street .. one on every light corner. Kate C. Barnes.. ? when is the next city council !