South DaCola

Tear down the Arena? Get Real!

I often disagree with the Argus Ed board, but I won’t make this an argument about differing ideas. I would partially agree to the idea if we sold the building as is and a private hotel came in and tore it down for another hotel, but I do not agree to using tax dollars to tearing down a building that is still functional and structurally sound.

Instead of hiring consultants and outside counsel every time the city has to make a ‘tough’ decision, why not use common sense instead?

Common sense would have told us we should have built the Convention Center downtown instead. Common sense would have told us we should have built the EC downtown instead. Common sense would have told us to build the indoor pool at the Sanford Sports Complex and lastly common sense would have told us it is better to lease city office space than to build a $25 million dollar fortress we don’t need.

Common sense tells us that the best solution for the Arena is to auction off the seats and other outdated performance gear, put in a false lowered ceiling and use it as convention center floor space. We could probably pay for it with the proceeds from the auction and it would serve us well.

I have never understood this mentality of blowing a bunch of money on consultants and lawyers to justify spending gobs of money to tear down a city structure that is functional as is.

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