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| Enter pros and cons here. Keep it calm:) |
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| This council with its problems is unlikely to do build a suitable building at a reasonable cost. May be a future council will be capable of building something appropriate for Nanaimo. |
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| Blair Franklin wrote: | | This council with its problems is unlikely to do build a suitable building at a reasonable cost. May be a future council will be capable of building something appropriate for Nanaimo. |
With it going to a referendum it will be up to the tax payers to approve borrowing 80 million $. Personally I think it's time for the city to have a modern event centre. The key to its success will be corporate investment, acquiring a WHL team, high quality concerts and events. |
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I am all for a WHL venue but I hate the design they are proposing and I don't trust this city council to build it. Besides being the ugliest design I have seen it is too small a venue. (Kevin am I right?) How do you justify spending $80 - $100 mil of our tax dollars on one venue? I'd rather they built another Ice Center with 2 or more sheets north Nanaimo maybe at the site where Costco is since they plan on moving. The NIC was built in 2006 for $12.7 mil and the province chipped in over $8 mil of that!
Let a private company that is competent at building a venue like the Save on Foods Memorial Centre, do the project if it is viable. Give them some tax incentives to build; much better than blowing through $80mil+ by an incompetent city council! Didn’t the owner of the Howard Johnson say he would build a WHL venue with his new hotel and gym? It was originally his idea… Give him his tax incentives and let him do it!
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Yes Karl, I think the building could look better than a 'barn, with some post & beam tacked on the front' :^P
I'm also a proponent of the private sector taking on these projects, rather than taxpayers always coughing up, but the reality is projects of this type rarely get built without some sort of public funding :^( |
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Here are the places that you can vote for or against the new Event Centre. |
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