The city has evidently entered into it’s final, last, not one cent more contract with the construction company to build the ball park and have it substantially complete by April 28, 2014. That’s only 17 days after the first game is scheduled to be played there.
Isn’t it time that we get to see the final plans? What will it look like?
Between now and then we have Santa Claus coming and multiple visits from the Tooth Fairy.
The Easter Bunny is scheduled for April 20, so he or she will want to know what to look for.
While we are at it could we please see the minutes of the June 18, 2013 and August 1, 2013 meetings of the Downtown Development Corporation? (That is city council acting in ball park mode).
We deserve better
Brutus
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l am completely, doubtfully, uncertainly positive that we will NOT dole out any more $ to the contractors…..well, unless they say ”pretty PRETTY please” while looking sincere. An educated guess as to why we’re not allowed to see the blueprints is probably because it’s on an ‘etch a sketch.’ But l’m sure that the stadium will be finished by 4/28/14 no matter how much duct tape they need. l swear, this whole thing stinks more than Cortney Niland’s feet. This whole thing even stinks more than this feeble attempt at me coming up with a humorous response. : – (
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As I have said repeatedly, if Council and the media had taken time to look at the cost and construction timelines of other comparable stadiums, they would have easily concluded that this ballpark would not be built for anything close to the original budget and not by opening day 2014.
City “leaders” selectively shared information from their boondoggle trip to Oklahoma City, which they held up as the exemplary model for our downtown ballpark, yet they failed to acknowledge that it took more than two years to build Bricktown.The construction schedules and costs for all the ballparks are easily found on Wikipedia.com. If Council members used their smartphones for this kind of research during meetings rather than communicating with their handlers, their phones might actually serve a useful, legitimate purpose.
Either Council and the local “news” media failed to do the most basic research, which is part of their job, or they were part of the effort to deceive. Take your pick.
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