Comments on: Forget Convention Center Expansion, Fix What We Have

By: Betty

Betty — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 05:47:08 +0000

When is some aspiring reporter going to do a story and analysis on how the GBAD marketing team is spending money like its going out of style? When are we going to see a list of conventions they’ve brought in? What a scam! $9 million in the bank and Pat Rice and Hy Kloc can’t slap their #$% with both hands and get a convention center built so they set up a marketing team to burn money like its going out of style. Where are the recall petitions everyone promised?

By: Artanis

Artanis — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:31:35 +0000

This is so typical of the warped business strategies of bureaucracy. You see, bureaucracy never operates an entity as a business. Say, as a small business person would. Example; The Boise Convention Center numbers have free-fallin’ over the years. What has their strategy been? Raise the rates in an astounding ratio over the past few years.

By: dog

dog — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:51:39 +0000

Guardian, Proud you are keeping the heat on this dead end convention center issue. The promoters of it are all extremely self interested. Boise is the WORST place for a big convention center. My last convention industry magazine was about 6 pages. Used to be 12 issues/year now it seems like 4.
What CEO is going to send managers to a convention in Boise? NO cheap flights to BOI unless you are lucky. Naked nudie bars = Vegas. Biggest convention town in America.
Boise has a lot of pizza joints. Why don’t we start with legalizing full on naked strip clubs in Boise first if we want convention traffic. With pizza.

By: IdahoCrystal

IdahoCrystal — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:54:36 +0000

High fives again for your voice of reason and common sense.

The horse-before-the-cart approach shouldn’t be the status quo as it’s been in the develop-now-plan-later approach of years past.

It’d be far more forward-thinking of leadership to give people more and better reasons for coming to our “remote” valley and utilizing the area’s under-used abundance of current convention and visitor facilities… (IMHO, heavy on the overly-hyphenated-run-ons.) = >

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:40:33 +0000

The Doppelganger in the room for all the waste and spend projects along with G-bad is CCDC and every urban renewal agency in Idaho.

Urban Renewal agencies breed a culture of handouts for developers and development that simply won’t pay its way. Property taxes is the source for all urban renewal money and most people don’t get it.

Money siphoned off for UR has to be replaced and results in higher and higher levy rates for all taxable property inside and outside the boundaries of the UR district.

By: Loser Emeritus

Loser Emeritus — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:46:41 +0000

For example the less than loudly announced/admitted fact that the city of Boise paid,if I remember correctly, one million dollars to the latest broke developer of the great hole in downtown Boise.

By: costaprettypenny

costaprettypenny — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:56:31 +0000

Can you say “New Hawks Stadium?”

By: Zippo

Zippo — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:49:27 +0000

Dave Dave Dave; Tisk, tisk. It’s not about the end result. It’s about rolling in the dough during the process. Just think of all the studies and consulting fees, all the over-billing. If we focus on the already over-built space that we have now, what will all of Team Dave’s friends do for a living? How boring, how boyscout of you!