Posted: 2/29/2008 11:14:00 AM EDT
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I don't live in Oklahoma City, but I do shop there fairly often, I can't vote on this, but if I could, I would be voting against it. I haven't attended any functions at the Ford Center, and I probably won't be attending anything, most of what happens there is quite expensive, but the people who use the facility should be the ones paying for it, if they want to make improvements do a bond issue and add the cost to the ticket prices. Here's an excellent video showing David Glover speaking before the City Council. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tctmao6rJxE |
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I've said it before and I'll say it again. It's a scam - they will not spend $120 Million on the Ford Center. Maybe $10 to 15 million tops. The majority of the money is to be used to develop the river to further enhance the value of property that Norick and his business partners own. It's not like they didn't already make a killing in Bricktown. Now they want a second go round at the average OKC citizen's pocket book. |
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Here is an excerpt from Ex Mayor Norick about the river. "It's kind of like giving birth to a new kid," Norick said as the boat cruised nearby on the river. "We've been working on this a long time, and to see it really come to fruition ... this is a really good point right now. This kind of gives us a mark in time that we've started a new era on the river." The river taxi service, expected to start next spring, will use the 49-passenger boats to ferry passengers between a dock under construction near Meridian Avenue and Interstate 40 and one planned near the Chesapeake Boathouse and within walking distance of the canal that runs through the Bricktown entertainment district. Another station will be built near the city's stockyards. Norick, who now is the chairman of the city's River Development Authority, said the idea is to take the people who stay in thousands of hotel rooms on the city's west side and bring them downtown in a memorable fashion. "As this river develops more and more commercially ... it will give people a different perception of what is going on on the river itself," Norick said. "It's really going to be a neat deal, and every year it's going to change. Every year, there's going to be something new happening down on the river." They are going to use the money from the continuation of the tax to make more money for Norick and his buddies. They own the land along the river. |