The time for a new events center in Sioux Falls is now. With a new events center comes income for area businesses, more jobs and more opportunities for a variety of events that are educational and entertaining.
What opportunities? What jobs? What events? Like I said, I support a new events center, but if you are going to win over the public you better start giving us details.
As a group we have met twice a month for more than a year, gathering information and public opinion. We are getting closer, but a decision has not yet been made.
That part of the letter confuses me. If you haven’t made a decision yet what point are you trying to make?
The Arena is full for about a four-month period with our local sports teams and other annual events.
That statement alone is very telling. How are we going to fill a 15,000 seat event center then? I have often suggested we should just refurbish the Arena and add another 2,000 seats if we think the solution is to make us bigger. We can also expand the convention center at the same time.
So far we’ve been leaning toward keeping all of our facilities at the same site. We’re going to need places for people to park. I have learned that regardless of your opinion about Howard Wood Field, moving it opens up 1,400 parking spaces at the site.
Silly. Tearing down a very useable stadium to build parking spaces is dumb. Sioux Falls is relatively small, we don’t need to concentrate the facilities. I prefer we build it downtown, but I really don’t care where, just as long as it is not at the current location of the Arena. By building the EC in it’s own location, we create a unique business infrastructure around it. Putting the EC by itself will truly be good for new businesses.
The best thing about the Mayor’s Events Center Task Force is that we’re open-minded.
BAHAHAHAHAHA! You mean like when you hired a consultant and then said he didn’t know what he was talking about? A professional in the business of giving sound advice on building entertainment facilities?
We want to do the right thing, and we’re willing to look at a lot of options.
You may THINK you want to do the right thing, but you are going in the wrong direction, may I suggest instead of opening your mind you start listening to the professionals and public in our community instead of ‘telling’ us what is best.