<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post3373065672453521519..comments</id><updated>2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Advance Indiana™: Ballard Wants Change In Control Of Fieldhouse After Blowing $43.5 Million</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://advanceindiana.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12703782/3373065672453521519/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://advanceindiana.blogspot.com/2012/12/ballard-wants-change-in-control-of.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Gary R. Welsh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-8161842431003437335</id><published>2012-12-26T19:42:03.447-05:00</published><updated>2012-12-26T19:42:03.447-05:00</updated><title type='text'>As to maintaining a costly facility without a tena...</title><content type='html'>     As to maintaining a costly facility without a tenant there really wasn&amp;#39;t anything wrong with Market Square except the Pacers weren&amp;#39;t making enough money.  Sidebar, when is that property going back on the tax rolls, if ever?&lt;br /&gt;      Secondly, talk about a Biased Sludge comment, &amp;quot;we&amp;#39;re going to look it over and see what make sense for us&amp;quot;.  There isn&amp;#39;t anyting in the Pacer deal that makes sense.  We opened up the contract to pay them to stay another three years but the current contract covered that contingency, including severe penalties for leaving Indianapolis.  What was the rationale in giving 100% of all revenues from Conseco to the Pacers, shouldn&amp;#39;t basketball revenue be sufficient.  And last but not least we built a brand arena with zero dollars from the tenants.&lt;br /&gt;     </content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12703782/3373065672453521519/comments/default/8161842431003437335'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12703782/3373065672453521519/comments/default/8161842431003437335'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://advanceindiana.blogspot.com/2012/12/ballard-wants-change-in-control-of.html?showComment=1356568923447#c8161842431003437335' title=''/><author><name>Jon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09490253182039581408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://advanceindiana.blogspot.com/2012/12/ballard-wants-change-in-control-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-3373065672453521519' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12703782/posts/default/3373065672453521519' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1651494628"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="7:42 PM GMT-5"/></entry></feed>