So in part I--- I explained this is not a takeoff of the popular 30 for 30 show about championship prize fighters that earn more than $100 Million Dollars and then go bankrupt....This is about getting another 20 years out of our community's only facility for big events and entertainment, the Pensacola Civic Center. I believe we can save money and get another 20 years out of our existing structure, add revenue enhancing features as well as energy savings featured--which done in conjunction could slash hundreds of thousands of dollars yearly from the operating loss (which this facility and most just like it will always carry) NOTE: This list and estimate is a preliminary number and these estimates are very, very general and provided by SMG based upon similar recent work at similar venues nationwide. In other words, this list would need to be scrubbed and new, current pricing would need to be sought in order to get the most accurate pricing for these upgrades...
Total waste of tax payers money....AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN......JEZZZ. STOP THE BLEED ALREADY!!
ReplyDeleteA community of 325,000 needs a civic center for shows, graduations, Presidential visits (I saw President Bush there, and President Trump twice.) We need a facility like this for numerous reasons--and if we lack the will to replace the facility utilizing grant money and tax credits financed with bed tax money--then I believe we need a plan to get another 20 years out of the existing facility because after all it is paid for, and structurally it is in decent shape. Or to put it another way--if you need a truck for work and you have one that's paid for but kind of want a new one because the existing one keeps having minor breakdowns, you have a choice. Spend some money up front to put a down payment on a new truck and make friends with high car payments again, or deal with the existing truck, re-build the transmission and engine and have new tires put on it to get another 100,000 miles out of it---at a much lower cost than buying new. What you can't do is kick the can and break down constantly on the way to your job because you can't decide what to do about your truck, and you are terrified of making a decision.........Problems are not like fine wine, they do not get better with age, and having mechanical breakdowns at the civic center is an embarrassment that we ought to prevent from happening, period.
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