Horror Hospital I guess I would have sprung for the less expensive terra cotta planters. (On sale now at LEWIS DRUG!)
Sioux Falls favorite bitcher (yeah, I don’t have the title quite yet) is bitching again about something that isn’t tickling his balls quite right. But his complaint isn’t about the cost of the planters to the taxpayers (which is F’ing outrageous) it is how they look.
Sixty-two round concrete planters are some of the last pieces of the puzzle to complete the Phillips Avenue project. At $800 a piece
the planters cost almost $50,000. The concrete spheres are meant to bring some beauty to the curbside, but when it comes to the new planters beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
You could have bought terra cotta planters at about $50 bucks a pop, filled them with gravel and soil and they would have served the same purpose. What have I said about city hall’s Cadillac tastes?
But Tiny Brain Timmy doesn’t care about that;
Tim Kant, owns Stogeez, and two other businesses downtown and doesn’t like the new additions to the area.
“The people that we have talked to, it’s almost unanimous that they don’t like them,” Kant said.
Tim, Tim, Tim. Will you stop frowning for about 2 seconds? We all know why you don’t like them. Not only do they remind of that bad ass bead experience you had in college, they most likely block more seating at your patio ‘lounge’. Just admit it. You could put out an extra 6-10 tables if they were not there.
But what is more concerning is what the city thinks is appropriate amount to spend on planters;
Public Works Director Mark Cotter says that when city took a public survey, planters were number two on the list for the Phillips Avenue project.
Yes, I’m sure that is true, Mark. But $800 for a planter?! C’mon! What a waste.