GSO amphitheater: half a million
Posted March 17th, 2010 at 9:22 PM by SamHPretty incredible debate during last night’s Greensboro City Council meeting that hopefully the N&R will pick up on. Surely the Rhino will have something tomorrow.
Triad Watch warned us to look at the consent agenda and note that coliseum director Matt Brown “is having a change in budget.”
Sure enough, Item 19 on the consent agenda was a change order for $35,000 for ‘coliseum complex Canada Dry site work.’
Remember a few months back how the City Council was surprised to hear that construction of an amphitheater on the Canada Dry site has already begun:
When the Greensboro City Council heard this week that a $95,000 amphitheater was under construction at the Greensboro Coliseum, some council members said they didn’t know about the project.
The work has been stopped until they learn more.
“It caught some people on their heels,” Councilman Zack Matheny said Wednesday, a day after the issue came up in a work session.
Note the lede — ‘construction on a $95,000 amphitheater.’ Now $130,000 has already spent, and when council member Robbie Perkins asked Brown point blank how much more money he needed to finish the job, Brown said $350,000, more than half of which would be so-called sponsorship dollars. So that brings the total to $480,000, which means you can go ahead and count on at least half a million.
Perkins made sure to emphasize the fact that revenue from the amphitheater — if it was completed in time for the summer-fall concert season, would help offset coliseum’s budget gap.
March 17th, 2010 at 9:42 pm
Things never change in Greensboro. If we were in the Great Depression of the 1930’s, Matt Brown would still be seeking and finding ways to spend generous amounts of tax money on the White Elephant on Lee St.
P.S. How much money did the city lose on the bummer last weekend at the coliseum?
March 17th, 2010 at 10:15 pm
the video of last night’s meeting was classic. The part people need to understand as well is that the interim manager morgan i think and not 100%sure signed off on this amphitheatre. So there is more blame to go around as well. I will try to get the video and see if there is a good clip to post it take a little time to upload.
March 17th, 2010 at 10:19 pm
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March 17th, 2010 at 10:24 pm
Yeah, Keith if you could get he exchange between Perkins and Brown, that lays it all out…
March 18th, 2010 at 12:17 am
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March 18th, 2010 at 7:46 pm
Amphitheatre sounds great! But through the right channels. Hopefully they can get everything approved so we can enjoy it by the late summer. Saw something in YES! about it..
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