DaCola on Lalley, Monday 4:30
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I will be on Patrick Lalley’s show, tomorrow (July 31, 2017) at 4:30. Not sure what he wants to pick my brain about, but I am assuming it will be city politics.
July 2017
Is the ‘Arc of Dreams’ getting tweaked
Top image is the new and improved design, bottom is the original.
I guess I haven’t heard any announcements that the design of the sculpture was changing, in fact if you go to their website, they still have the old image up.
I caught it on the site sign yesterday next to the proposed location. It must have just recently changed because I ride my bike by this sign almost everyday.
What do you think of the new design compared to the old? I kind of liked the simplicity of the first design.
But the artist may not have a choice in the matter. When it was first proposed I was told by and engineer and a person who has worked around large scale public art projects that since the piece was flat and didn’t touch (held together) it would need massive counterweights because of the wind. I’m sure the new design helps with wind flow and is much lighter without the panels of polished stainless steel. I’m also wondering if it is a little cheaper to?
I’m curious if there will be an official announcement about the change, I also wonder if they will tell us why it had to be changed. Things that make you go hmmmmm. I guess sometimes your dreams have to be tweaked to come true 🙂
More broken promises from 85th and Minnesota
One of the promises to the housing neighbors of the new Walmart on the Southside was that there would be a business office buffer between them and Walmart, as you can see with plans for a new Hardee’s that promise went by the wayside, with all the other promises.
‘Shut Up’ & Enjoy the Economic Impact of the Denny
Thanks to Cameraman Bruce for finding this ridiculous video, ever notice it’s always about the sports or country music in Sioux Falls. If you like neither for entertainment, you might as well roll up in a corner and cry yourself to sleep.
Of course the stories continue about all the econ impact of the Brooks shows. I don’t deny there will be a slight sales tax and local business bump, but let’s truly look at what goes out the door. Fortunately, the Brooks camp monitors their sales, so they KNOW who is purchasing the tickets, so here are the numbers we ‘are being told’;
While roughly 60 percent of the tickets sold were from the region, Semrau says more than 40,000 attendees will be visiting Sioux Falls specifically for Garth’s shows.
So it is not the other way around, like our mayor claimed.
Let’s start with what Garth will be taking directly from Sioux Falls area residents (I’m assuming his $75 fee does NOT include taxes or Ticketmaster fees) If you assume 60% are from the SF MSA, that would mean Brooks takes $4.5 million from the community that will never be recirculated or spent in SF (this money left our town in one week).
Now let’s take the visitors, who spend all their delicious cash in our hotels and restaurants;
“You have to think about the indirect impact of those people working in the hotels, working in the restaurants, working in the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center, they then roll over that money because they’ve been paid because of the concert to work, so it rolls over in the community three to five times,†Schmidt said.
Not really. First off people who work in the hospitality industry in SF are the lowest paid in the community, basically poverty wages of $14k to $20K a year. Besides the wages that will be recirculated most profits leave Sioux Falls because a lot of the businesses are national franchises.
How about that 36,000 gallons of beer, SMG and Ovations who handle operations at the EC are national companies, that money leaves Sioux Falls also.
While I agree there may be a $20 million dollar impact, only a small portion of that actually goes in the pockets of SF residents and even city hall.
The proof is in the pudding, since the EC has been built, sales tax revenue has actually gone down. Like I have said in an earlier post, we can make some ordinance changes and other changes at the EC to make sure more of that money recirculates in Sioux Falls, but that will take some leadership.
One of the reasons I support local restaurants and shows by local promoters is because I know most of the money I spend at these places will recirculate in the community. Maybe there should be a new push by the CVB to support local entertainment.