Well, I will have to give Stormland TV credit on this one, they dug into the archives, and showed that not much has changed in that Arena area of town since the CC has been built. The video is great, the footage of Metli is priceless,
“The convention center will not only bring more visitors and more people into that area, but also upgrade the appearance of the existing site,” City Planner Steve Metli said in December of 1993.
Now he says building it there was a mistake. No shit Sherlock. We were spending millions downtown on building the Pavilion, why not build the CC down there to? I sometimes wonder how some of these people get in power? They keep doing the same thing over and over and expect different results. This is another reason why the Arena location is bad, bad, bad.
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