The GOP Plan to Sabotage Raleigh's Successful Growth

RALEIGH, N.C.—To get to the future Garner High School satellite campus, you have leave the main road south of the city and find a wooded turnoff that leads to the rear of a huge, decaying shopping plaza. There, nestled in the trees near the school, is an abandoned movie theater. Wake County bought the vacant Garner Towne Square 10 property in early 2012 for $1.75 million, and will use it to ease the school's severe overcrowding. The cinema, which fell victim to the economic downtown, closed three years ago and has sat vacant ever since. Now it will be used to house ninth-graders.

Top image: Wake County purchased the shuttered Garner Town Square 10 theater in 2012 to convert it into a satellite campus that will ease overcrowding at a local high school. (James Oliphant)