Triad Meat Company Owner Raises Speeding Concerns After Randleman Road Crash

Sally Stevens, owner of Triad Meat Company on Randleman Road, told city leaders speeding and crime are now top concerns after a recent crash near her property and a spate of shootings along the corridor. Triad Meat Company has operated for more than 60 years and has been at its Randleman Road location for 30 years, Stevens said, and she described customers who refuse to travel farther down the road to shop.

The safety concerns were aired at a community meeting held July 20, where residents and business owners discussed proposed corridor improvements such as crosswalks and traffic medians. Stevens said those infrastructure ideas are “all great,” but added that “the first things are more important, which is cleaning up crime in our area and our speeding issues.” A follow-up community session is planned for early September to further develop the plan for Randleman Road.

The corridor has seen recent violent incidents that neighbors cited at the meeting. Attendees and local reporting referenced a shooting at Randleman Plaza a little more than two weeks before the July 20 meeting, and two shootings the prior week that involved a Waffle House on a Tuesday night and a McDonald’s on a Sunday night. Reporting states one of those shootings “left a juvenile dead” and the other “sent one victim to the hospital,” though outlets did not map each outcome to a specific location in the accounts presented at the meeting.

City officials described several short- and medium-term actions in response. Greensboro Assistant City Manager Andrea Harrell said, “Randleman Road is definitely on the city’s radar and that they are working on filling vacant buildings and getting cameras put up in at multiple intersections in the area.” Harrell added the city “has already procured for three different intersections along Randleman Road” and is waiting on permissions from NCDOT to install them. Harrell also outlined the city’s nuisance-abatement authority, noting that “once your location has a significant increase in criminal activity, the city does have the ability to file what's called a nuisance abatement lawsuit” and that she previously prosecuted three such cases with the city attorney’s office.

Law enforcement visibility was raised as well. A public safety official identified as Alston said, “We’re just doing our best to try to make sure we’re more visible. The violent crime reduction teams are more visible, you know, in the area that we see concerns... But we’re always open to do more.” Stevens urged traffic patrols as part of the solution: “If they’re patrolling for speed out here then we’re helping to control crime, I mean they kind of go one in one together,” she said.

Community leaders pushed for stronger code enforcement and nuisance citations. Southeast Greensboro Coalition Chair Crystal Black said, “I think that they should be cited, and it should be recorded and after so many incidents that you're addressed, you're cited as a nuisance. The same energy that they wanted to have for bars, that our mayor and that our city council members wanted to have for bars, I think that should be across the board for all businesses. A nuisance is a nuisance.” Property owners at the July 20 meeting also pledged action; one identified only as Davis said, “We’ve acquired a consultant to help us really materialize what we can do to help the community look like it wants to look and operate in the way and continue to grow like it wants to grow.”

Several gaps remain: multiple headlines tied the speeding concerns to a crash near a business, but no public account presented at the meeting provided crash date, injuries, or a police case number, and the three camera locations have not been named publicly while the city awaits NCDOT approval. Community members and city officials said they will return to the table in early September to refine traffic, safety, and nuisance-abatement steps for the Randleman Road corridor.