Comments on Advance Indiana™: Ozdemir Trying To Force Taxpayers To Pay For Downtown Stadium For His Soccer Team

Apparently Mr. Ozdemir hasn't reach the cap on...

2014-01-27T09:08:31.065-05:00

Apparently Mr. Ozdemir hasn't reach the cap on how much Corporate Welfare he should receive. I wonder if that has something to do with the size of his political contributions?

Spear and associates already have been contacted t...

2014-01-25T19:24:57.946-05:00

Spear and associates already have been contacted to update the Nat. They are waiting on the sidelines for the deal.

If it goes into the tennis stadium lot, Herron wil...

2014-01-25T17:26:58.039-05:00

If it goes into the tennis stadium lot, Herron will be moved, again. That parcel will be stadium parking.

They won't want something from 1972 impeding the view of the shiny, new, stadium, and Herron never much liked the law school, anyway. Have there been significant improvements in Herron in the past year? If they're only doing basic maintenance on Herron, you can predict the future for the building.

Ballard may even turn Military Park into parking.

If the Soccer stadium goes into the tennis lot, this also means that IUPUI wants to go Div 1 in Football.

They'll turn the entire North Bank of the canal into an athletic complex that will look great from blimp shots.

It's amazing how the plans are devised long before they're released to the public.

Anon, 1:02, That's not a far-fetched possibili...

2014-01-25T16:03:44.223-05:00

Anon, 1:02, That's not a far-fetched possibility. I would not at all be surprised to see that sprung on us. Let's see, Ballard gives IUPUI the money it wants to fix up the Natatorium, and IUPUI donates the land of the former tennis center for Ersal's new stadium. If the NSA spying was doing the real job it was supposed to be doing, it would know about money being illegally funneled from Middle East sources into certain conduits in Indianapolis to enrich a few political insiders and pay large bribes to our politicians.

Where is it Constitutionally expressed that privat...

2014-01-25T14:04:53.277-05:00

Where is it Constitutionally expressed that private developers get penalty kicks at the public purse?

Is this why they tore down the Tennis stadium?

2014-01-25T13:02:40.295-05:00

Is this why they tore down the Tennis stadium?

Gary, buddy, you have got to learn to talk like a ...

2014-01-25T12:59:17.840-05:00

Gary, buddy, you have got to learn to talk like a Hoosier. Yes, we all know the Hoosier Dome is long gone. That's precisely why the new thing is called the Hoosier Dome.

Flogger 10:29. I agree, but I also believe in the ...

2014-01-25T12:28:55.832-05:00

Flogger 10:29.
I agree, but I also believe in the DOJ and of other corruption cases making the news with proper justice served. Let's see it here.

If nothing else Ozdemir has learned quickly how ou...

2014-01-25T10:29:49.427-05:00

If nothing else Ozdemir has learned quickly how our system works. Actually it is not that much different any where else in the world find connected people and have them carry the water for what you want.

The CIB has a Surplus of about 90 million where gi...

2014-01-25T10:11:00.468-05:00

The CIB has a Surplus of about 90 million where giving the pacers 11 million in 14, 20 mill for the pool at IUpui Just watch thats where the money will come from and no one can stop the mayor from doing it!

I think that this may already be a done deal. Las...

2014-01-25T10:08:39.194-05:00

I think that this may already be a done deal. Last fall, during a IUPUI campus tour, the tour leaders (students) seemed to be pretty specific that the professional soccer stadium would be built on IUPUI land.

This sounds like a stupid idea, but I know that the state and the CIB are eager to spend money on the IU Natatorium, another stadium would be more of the same.

Indianapolis Indians' model seems to work swel...

2014-01-25T08:34:12.079-05:00

Indianapolis Indians' model seems to work swell w/o any city money. a minor league soccer team should walk before it runs. prediction: soccer won't fly. his latest fiasco, the b.r. parking garage has an 8% average occupancy. city is STILL subsidizing further with IMPD substation.

I meant to include the words, "and monetary r...

2014-01-25T07:28:23.177-05:00

I meant to include the words, "and monetary reform" with "world-wide debt cancellation" as what we vigorously should be lobbying for, if we taxpayers have ANY sense, so as to avoid the next great starvation, also termed great depression.

What we essentially need is world-wide debt cancel...

2014-01-25T05:55:38.668-05:00

What we essentially need is world-wide debt cancellation, not more debt that would be heaped on us by this scheme of Ozdemir and company. "Jim Willie - This Year - Currency Explosion" video posted at GoldenJackass.com calls out for this reform, and the 1/22 14 report at vidrebel.wordpress explains what is really going on:

"The Russo-Chinese Pincer Movement Against the US Treasury and the FED."

The Hoosier Dome no longer exists. Supposedly ther...

2014-01-24T23:00:53.456-05:00

The Hoosier Dome no longer exists. Supposedly there would be too many scheduling conflicts at Lucas Oil.

Why can't Soccer be played in the Hoosier Dome...

2014-01-24T21:17:45.512-05:00

Why can't Soccer be played in the Hoosier Dome or Victory Field? Either is large enough to hold it.

Plus, when Soccer folds, we we won't be on the hook for a white elephant.

Does Indy even have a Downtown? All new developmen...

2014-01-24T15:02:11.781-05:00

Does Indy even have a Downtown? All new development I see there is either sports stadia or townhouses, with a few hotels thrown in.

On all sides, Downtown's new development is, again and again, sports stadiums, townhouses and hotels.

I haven't seen an office skyscraper go in since the late 80's, and with all the sports stadiums, townhouses and hotels hemming in the buildable ground, Downtown has no room to expand.

Yes, the needless little Simon building went in on land that was better used as a park, but the commercial development down there is very infrequent.

All the commercial development I see is on 465 or in Carmel.

This project is yet another sports stadium that further proves Indy's Downtown isn't a downtown, at all, but merely an entertainment district.

Can we please stop referring to the Mile Square as a Downtown and simply regard it as merely another area of town?