Saturday, September 07, 2013
Indy Taxpayers Will Be Asked To Finance Another Downtown Hotel In Quest For New Super Bowl Bid
The insanity never ends. Those who believe that the future of Indianapolis rests on plowing hundreds of millions of dollars in public investments into the entertain and sports-related events in the downtown area are now pushing a new taxpayer-financed hotel at the site of the Pan Am Plaza because the more than one hundred million dollars in taxpayer funds that have been invested in other downtown luxury hotels, including the Conrad Hilton, the J.W. Marriott and the Alexander Hotel, aren't meeting the grade for the demands of the billionaire sports team owners. Those behind the 2018 Super Bowl bid hope that funding can be pieced together for yet another luxury hotel.
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I travel frequently, and I always avoid downtown hotels. I don't want to pay for parking. I love interstate access, and I like a big, free, parking lot that allows me to come and go with ease.
Other travelers also avoid downtown hotels, so I'm not sure how high demand will be for this place.
Did Dean White already phone Ballard?
Isn't this the site where the Amateur Athletic Union has its HQ? Or did?
Billions in Corporate Welfare to subsidize the Owners of Professional Sports teams and large down town corporations. Minimum Wages for the people who will provide the Services to make the elite 1% happy while they stop in for the day.
Any talk or attempts to Unionize the Service Industry will be as usual harshly dealt with.
If the last Superbowl we hosted was such a success, (as we keep hearing over and over,) than why do we need to penalize taxpayers like this?
Too bad all the laws the Downtown Crony-Capitalists and Ballard want against homeless panhandlers do not apply to Billionaires.
Indy needs another hotel to get a Super Bowl because the NFL owners do not want to put another Super Bowl here. Not a fun place for a winter vacation, in their eyes. The last Super Bowl awarded here was only on, like, a 16-15 vote.
The last Super Bowl was awarded the moment we agreed to build a new stadium, Cox.
Re all this abuse of us taxpayers, if one wants to know what is going on in America, all he/she has to do is read the Communist Manifesto.
Anon 8:55,
No, it wasn't.
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