Comments on: Local Banker To Join GBAD Board https://boiseguardian.com/2012/03/14/local-banker-to-join-gbad-board/ A different slant on the news. Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:52:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: boisecynic https://boiseguardian.com/2012/03/14/local-banker-to-join-gbad-board/#comment-28713 Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:52:33 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=8058#comment-28713 Conventions are shrinking world wide? Can you back up that assertion?

The Fairgrounds aka Expo Idaho is unacceptable. It is not near any freeway.

Building a convention center downtown is a bad idea? Did you ask Spokane for their opinion? Where have we heard this kind of talk before?

1970: The greenbelt was a bad idea. 1988: The Broadway/Chinden Connector was a bad idea. Et cetera, et cetera.

Ice Capades comment = straw man fallacy.

]]> By: dog https://boiseguardian.com/2012/03/14/local-banker-to-join-gbad-board/#comment-28655 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:59:20 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=8058#comment-28655 Conventions are shrinking world wide. The cost of fuel and growth of internet business transactions are trimming the convention business yearly. The convention/tradeshow business is a vestige of the last century.
I would support a new, beautiful and functioning fairgrounds, with multi use facilities. Garden City needs the economic boost more than Boise and they have the parking.
Building a Convention “centre” in downtown Boise is a very bad idea.
The area around Moscone Center in SF is filthy and dangerous and is in the heart of the city. Talk about a small business killer, building a WalMart in downtown Boise is almost as dumb.
The new fairgrounds in Redmond OR are a stellar example of what we could have if these clowns on GBAD had some vision.

EDITOR NOTE–Dog, take a look at a previous GUARDIAN suggestion. We think it has legs and would be worth “building upon.” A current GBAD commish was a county commish when we brought it up the first time.

]]> By: nan emouse https://boiseguardian.com/2012/03/14/local-banker-to-join-gbad-board/#comment-28654 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:18:15 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=8058#comment-28654 Can’t think of the last time the Ice Capades came to the Convention Center. Or a concert. Or a play.

]]> By: Sneetch https://boiseguardian.com/2012/03/14/local-banker-to-join-gbad-board/#comment-28651 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:02:45 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=8058#comment-28651 Times have changed but their mission and function are just as relevant today as they were in 1959, if not more so.

]]> By: boisecynic https://boiseguardian.com/2012/03/14/local-banker-to-join-gbad-board/#comment-28648 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:08:48 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=8058#comment-28648 History, history, history. Not sure of the direction of this thread, but it is GBAD’s job to build auditoriums aka convention centers, in just the same way it is ACHD’s job to build roads. Don’t hear too much griping when ACHD widens the roads that you used to get delayed on.

In 1959 82% voted yes to create an Auditorium District as allowed under Idaho Law Title 67 Chapter 49 here:

http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/idstat/Title67/T67CH49.htm

Proof of the landslide vote in 1959 linked below and I’m the one who went through the Library’s microfilm and presented this document to GBAD.

http://www.gbadnow.com/pdf/articles_1959.pdf

To reiterate: It is GBAD’s job, their mandate, to build a convention center. If they don’t get it done then they are failing, not the other way around.

EDITOR NOTE–Cynic, you are correct as to history. At the time there was no Century Link arena, Taco Bell arena, Morrison Center, Fair Grounds, Hawks Stadium, Bronco Stadium, Idaho Center, Center on the Grove, or Nampa Civic center. One of the justifications was a place for the Ice Capades or Holiday on Ice to perform. Times have changed.

]]> By: shdizzle https://boiseguardian.com/2012/03/14/local-banker-to-join-gbad-board/#comment-28641 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:32:30 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=8058#comment-28641 Parking, Parking, more parking please. Without it, nobody wants to go downtown and fight for parking.

]]> By: David Zarkin https://boiseguardian.com/2012/03/14/local-banker-to-join-gbad-board/#comment-28636 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:56:23 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=8058#comment-28636 Shower down details on the auditorium district. Have they built an auditorium and what goes on there? Arena football, rock concerts? Is it worth a trip to attend an event at the auditorium?

]]> By: Ivan https://boiseguardian.com/2012/03/14/local-banker-to-join-gbad-board/#comment-28625 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 02:51:18 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=8058#comment-28625 Come one-Come all…and watch the most pathetic hour. Kroc (what he is full of) STILL can’t run a meeting…and didn’t he say in his GBAD campaign he was NOT interested in any other political venture. How do you intend to build a convention center when you have no one to market the city and its amenities…but have 8 (so-called) sales people selling one (1) building…STOP THE INSANITY…pretty please. As far as Derr is concerned…hasn’t she done enough damage already? See you all at the Show!

]]> By: dog https://boiseguardian.com/2012/03/14/local-banker-to-join-gbad-board/#comment-28605 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:56:52 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=8058#comment-28605 Hope Mr. Perez is smart enough to know how bad an idea building a bigger convention center is for this community.

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