War Memorial III: Another bond referendum?
In my recent "Newsmaker" interview with Greensboro Coliseum Managing Director Matt Brown, he broached the idea of yet another bond referendum in two years to fix crumbling War Memorial Auditorium.
That will be a very tough sell.
Not only that, but he says he'd trim the price tag from $50 million to $35 million.
But he conceded voters are naturally going to wonder why they couldn't have done the project for the lesser amount in the first place.
He'll have a whole lot of splainin to do.
Here's the video interview:
Update: Matt's got to be feeling his oats these days ... crowds of 20,000-plus for the NCAAs. and now the Taylor Swift concert sells out.
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I like those big black curtains they use to make the place appear that it's not as empty as it actually is -
Posted on March 20, 2009 12:14 PM
Well, they definitely haven't had to use them for the NCAAs. And they even drew them back for the ACC women when the crowd overflowed on Friday.
Posted on March 20, 2009 1:26 PM
Wow, do you mean the $20,000,000 generated by this Greensboro wonder created enough money to paint at least one room.
Posted on March 23, 2009 10:17 AM