The Greensboro HIVE

by Sue Edelberg | Go Triad

To strengthen relationships and community power in Greensboro, a new community space called The HIVE opened on Grove Street in the Glenwood neighborhood this past fall.

The not-for-profit center was created as a space where communities in and around Greensboro could come together to build strong relationships, share resources and participate in events that help educate and unite communities.

A group of community organizers persevered for more than a year to bring this idea of the HIVE to life. Since the HIVE first opened, they’ve held events such as grant-writing workshops, support groups, film screenings, youth poetry nights, and discussion forums.

By Jeri Rowe | News & Record

Pat Callair wants us to learn a thing — or two — from a gangbanger named Bone.

She’s brought his words and work to places across Greensboro because she knows we can’t arrest ourselves out of the gang problem worrying our city.

In South Carolina, she’s worked with death row inmates as a social worker. Today in Greensboro, she works with at-risk kids and teenagers as a therapist. She knows the terrain.

But she also knows the possibilities. And she wants something done.

by Staff Reporters | News & Record

A new private foundation aimed at helping neighborhood groups promote democracy will launch next week.

The Fund for Democratic Communities will open its first grant-making cycle with a news conference at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday at its office at the HIVE at 1214 Grove St., Greensboro. The fund will hold a 90-minute information session for prospective grantees starting at 10 a.m. Jan. 19 at the HIVE.

by Jordon Green for Yes! Weekly

The punks, anarchists, opt-outers and scenesters are jammed into the Hive community center, a nondescript room with inside walls of brick and cinderblock painted white - an address that once housed the infamous Game Time Lounge, a club reputed to accommodate open drug use and discrete prostitution.

Mike Welch, a 20-year-old Greensboro resident with a shock of dirty blond hair and an open, boyish smile, stands about a head above the rest of the crowd. Tonight will be his first time seeing Zegota, an activist hardcore band founded in Greensboro in 1997 whose conscientiously non-commercial approach and trans-Atlantic residency has limited its appearances and commensurately driven up its appeal.

by Melde Rutledge | Carolina Peacemaker

A key component in revitalizing the Glenwood Neighborhood centers around a two-block corridor on Grove Street, members of the Greater Glenwood Neighborhood Association (GGNA) told Greensboro City Council on Nov. 27.

“Grove Street was a little eye sore that we felt like was a part that we needed to start and get some activity going there, and kind of turn the neighborhood around,” said Cheryl Small, co-chairwoman of the Grove Street Revitalization Task Force.

Grove Street is located within the Glenwood Neighborhood. The road stretches from Coliseum Boulevard and ends eastward at Lexington Avenue.

by Amy Kingsley in Yes! Weekly

For years now a motley tribe of progressives has been scouring Greensboro’s supply of industrial buildings, looking for one that might jibe with their plans for a space where activists could share ideas and resources.

They looked at the old Rose Spa, which was too big and expensive. For a while the group settled above the Flying Anvil, but it closed when the club folded.

Now, after drifting for nearly a year, the community space - newly christened the Hive - has found a home in a Glenwood business district struggling to revitalize.