Maybe the spaceship like planters downtown will turn into real ones and carry a cigar bar owner to the planet DB-1, where he belongs

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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.

Get ready for New Development downtown . . . in 3-5 years.

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Tired of looking at old lumber yard sheds and such? No worries, you’ll get to look at this next.

I guess we were all wrong about what is going to happen at the old lumber yard location downtown;

Some of the existing sheds will be torn down then, and before it becomes anything else the site will become a construction equipment and supply staging area . . .

Wooooo Hooooo! Can I go play on the bulldozers at night? Maybe have an outdoor festival on one of the gravel piles? No longer will we have to worry about Sioux Falls ‘Leaking Money’ like councilor Jamison has warned us about (while wearing his brand new, freshly pressed AC/DC shirt while tearing up fake checks, a performance that should have honored him an Oscar, or at least a Mayor’s award for the arts).

City Council member Greg Jamison said he’s mindful of the spirited debate on where to build events and convention facilities, but he acknowledges “there’s a lot of value to putting it downtown.

“Wherever it goes, though, downtown or at the Arena, I would love to cut the ribbon on it as soon as we can. It’s a huge economic engine we’re missing out on.”

Couldn’t agree more Greg. Maybe you, your brother and Daddy Warbucks General Jamison could pool your money with other developers in town and build your own fricking Event Center. Huh? Instead raising taxes on little old ladies bread and milk? I would come to the ribbon cutting. I promise.