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[QUOTE="maxxyz, post: 2551559, member: 350"]
Quite the contrary.  I was a huge proponent of the Lakeview Amphitheater.  I'm in favor of a new arena on South Campus.  I'm in favor of funding hotels downtown and grants for businesses in our Little Italy area of North Salina Street.  I was all for the baseball stadium being downtown.  And I am highly in favor of having a boulevard replace 1.3 miles of route 81.

But I'm not in favor of building in bad locations or with no budget for the infrastructure and upkeep of the project.  I love the idea of a tunnel to replace that section of route 81, but the maintenance costs are very high.  Having the baseball stadium next to the train station added no value to the area, whereas a downtown location would have made an enormous impact.  And lastly the arena project for downtown had no proposal for funding to offset the costs of staff, utilities and maintenance.  And the plan had 200 parking spots in place.  For a 40,000 person capacity arena.  With only street parking nearby.   And Joanie was not allowing any review of the proposal.  It was a recipe for disaster.
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