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      <title>Comments On: Our big need: a civic center
    
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    <author><![CDATA[Building a center]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[It will be built in the next two years. It will be built with private money - not taxpayers dollars.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:24:54 -0700</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[marge]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Until we can reopen our municipal fitness centers, water our parks, and open restrooms in same we have absolutely NO business looking into building or buying another money pit.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:11:38 -0700</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[P.S.  The Chapel Hills Mall has gone through bankruptcy and is for sale. The city could buy that building (over a million square feet)  for far less than it costs to build.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:11:15 -0700</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[In study after study, it has been shown that convention centers LOSE MONEY all across the country. Hundreds of Convention Centers in the United States tend to be big buildings that are empty most of the time.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 01:51:19 -0700</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[SeldomSeenSmith]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Sure...it can be done. We first need to find out which city council person or county supervisor has a vested interest in suitable large properties in the area.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 18:55:42 -0700</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[StayinginCS]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[This community is so distrusting of government, and its use of tax dollars, that it has turned down votes to construct convention centers at least 3 times. I, too, am amazed when I go to towns much smaller than ours and I see lovely centers that bring in great seminars, shows, and conventions.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:33:14 -0700</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[KCMike]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[The concept for a "Civic Center" sounds like a combination of our current Pikes Peak Center and World Arena. Both are outstanding facilities; I say better utilize what we have rather than fund new construction projects.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 10:07:11 -0700</pubDate>
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