Climb Worthington?
April 20, 2011 at 3:17 pm in Worthington Daily Globe
Proposal to turn elevator into climbing center to go before city council Monday
WORTHINGTON The land that Worthington inhabits is about as flat as flat can be nary a significant hill, let alone a mountain, to be found. Continue Reading
I’m all for PRIVATE citizens turning this into reality if they choose to take the risk financially. No taxpayer $$ should be used for such an experiment. Does the name Prairie View ring any bells? Good luck in your venture.
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When the right brain takes over the left brian…. Lets see, the city has to purchase the property, give a free lease, provide a tax holiday, provide a $400,000 grant plus another ongong $75,000 a year to cover the gap in operating expenses so this monument can go from a rustic eyesore to a freshly painted eyesore that can be used for a few months by a few people with no apparent return on investment – Wow thats a business plan fit for Congress! Left Brain – Wake Up!
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the people I talked to that climb say that climbing is a great exercise. how much money has the City given the YMCA to relocate and to build a better outdoor pool. Now there is a small pond of the kids to use. that is if they can even get out there; remember no sidewalks. I think the city should be behind this 100%, if they do not support this they should no longer support the “Y” and they should sell Prairie View; after all those two spots are for a select few too.
Worthington needs to start spending money to be able to attract more people to town to spend more money at local business’. They need to make this a destination instead of a drive through community. They need to stop giving into a few certain few and start letting others have a great experience too!
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Just tear it down already. How many ugly grain elevator climbers can there be in the area? Enough to come up with the 50k to tear it down? Unlikely.
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Does anyone else find it suspicious that in the eleventh hour before this elevator is slated to be torn down AGAIN, suddenly this climbing enthusiast comes out of nowhere and just happens to want to save this structure by wanting it to be a climbing thingy? Oh really? This idea has not been brought up before? Wow, Jay Milbrandt had no idea…
Remember the last time it was about ready to be tore down, it was magically sold in the eleventh hour to prevent it from being town down that time.
Shame on New Vision, shame on Stuart Carleton, and shame on Jay Milbrandt for trying to pull another fast one on the citizens of Worthington and shame of the City Leaders if they buy this cockamamie idea that somehow people from all over will come to Worthington to pay to climb the ugly elevator and don’t get me started on the ludicrous idea of a cafe on top.
City Leaders, you were played by an individual who bought the old Campbell Soup property to turn it into a spent chicken factory. Remember? How many employees were burned in that deal? How many creditors were burned? Who got stuck with the demo cost of that building? Don’t be fooled again.
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Brilliant commentary!
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Same old argument, new item. No matter what we do here, the taxpayer will be cleaning up some one else’s mess. Do you have an old building that has failing elements? No longer useful? Let the taxpayer help you! Why should it matter that these old buildings generated some serious revenue and made someone rich? Next on the agenda, Northland mall. And we wont even mention the sleeping giant of toxicity that we dump our garbage in, although a select few got very rich off that deal in the beginning too.
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